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Sweden's Dr. Clarence Crafoord, one of the world's greatest heart-lung surgeons, caused a public outcry earlier this month when he suggested that a person should be declared dead when a flat EEG pattern shows that his brain has definitely and irrevocably ceased to function. Dr. Crafoord was concerned about truly hopeless cases, but the kin of patients being kept alive with mechanical aids jumped to the conclusion that he meant the devices should be shut off, the patients declared dead, and their organs used for transplants...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Clarence Crafoord and Erik Jorpes of Stockholm told how they injected heparin (made from the lungs and livers of cattle) in 325 middle-aged patients who had had serious operations...