I remember reading a few years ago that China had a lot of difficulty obtaining organ donations because they still used the outdated notion of heart-death, rath

I remember reading a few years ago that China had a lot of difficulty obtaining organ donations because they still used the outdated notion of heart-death, rather than brain-death, to determine legal death. As a result of that (and other factors), around 90% of the organ donations in the PRC came from executed criminals. Organ transplants are cheaper in the PRC, so they were one of the larger destinations for so-called "organ transplant tourism." I don't know if they've updated their definition of death or not (hard to find recent info), but the issue with executed criminals is still apparently an outstanding international concern. This article, and this issue, is another example of how science continues to challenge our deep-held assumptions and viewpoints, by making edge cases increasingly relevant. In this case, life-or-death important, not just for the organ donor, but for the recipient as well. It's a hard decision to have to throw a loved one (or their ventilated but oh-so-lively-looking cadaver, depending on your point of view) under the bus based on statistical likelyhoods of greater good.