Organ transplantation, once an uncommon, often extraordinary event, has rightfully assumed a prominent position among routine procedures performed at most medical centers. Few endeavors in medicine enable the physician to profoundly influence change in a patient’s physiology and thereby improve the quality of life. Rapid expansion of the scientific foundations of immunology and surgery, as they apply to transplantation, has contributed to the accelerated growth in this field. No other development in the history of medicine has had the conceptual and philosophic implications of organ transplantation. In all past times, the objective of physicians and surgeons faced with diseases of an specific organ system was to extract the last moment of function from a failing organ us

This issue directly or indirectly affects all of us, and that’s why this study is intended to expose the situations which present moral dilemmas. It is expected that this presentation will contribute to your understanding of this most important and relevant issue.

ing medicines or with surgical procedures that often were poorly conceived, but brilliantly executed. When the function of a vital organ system reached a certain level, the whole body died even though all the other organ systems were without defect.

The International Organ and Tissue Retrieval Directory states that at the U.S. Catholic Conf. & Natl. Conf. Of Catholic Bishops the Pope Pio XII (1956) expressed his opinion towards organ donation at time of death:

The discussions conducted in the past among the moralists concerning the lawfulness of mutilation are now part of history, with the warranty that the medical advances of the present can be performed with absolute confidence. Always remember this old cite: nobody loves more a friend than the one that is willing to give his life for him, a gift of life.

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