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It is a curious fact that Denmark as the last country in Western Europe accepted the brain death criterion. It just happened this year when the Danish Parliament passed the Minister of Justice’s Bill concerning inquest, autopsy, and transplantation, etc. (Law no. 402, June 13, 1990). Before that, there had been a long and heated public debate — a controversy — over death criteria and organ transplantation. Why? Are we Danes so different from other people — more religious or (as we love to think of ourselves) more democratic than the rest of the world — or perhaps just more confused?
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The Danish Council of Ethics (1989) Death criteria: a report. Copenhagen.
Rossel P (1990) A moral obligation to be an organ donor and a subject of human research? (In Danish). J Dan Med Assoc 152:3816–3818.
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Rossel, P. (1991). What Were the Problems of Getting Brain Death Accepted in Denmark: The Beginning and End of a Controversy. In: Land, W., Dossetor, J.B. (eds) Organ Replacement Therapy: Ethics, Justice Commerce. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76444-8_38
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