This article highlights the status of organ donation and its misconceptions amongst the Jewish population in the aftermath of the Alissa Flatow case. It provides an overview of Israel’s “all-take no give policy” as a member of the European organ donor network and Israel’s subsequent closeout from the network. Landmark decisions amongst various Jewish groups vis-à-vis organ donation in Israel and America are also outlined.

The Lancet, Vol 359, March 16, 2002

Frances Kissling is a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the former president of Catholics for a Free Choice.

Hastings Center Report 39, no 5 (2009): 4-7

Full title: Brain Death: Can It Be Resuscitated? March/April 2009 Includes letters to the author from Hastings Center Report 39, no 5 (2009): 4-7, September-October 2009 entitled “And She’s Not Only Merely Dead, She’s Really Mostly Sincerely Dead”