TY - JOUR T1 - Against abandoning the dead donor rule: reply to Smith JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics DO - 10.1136/jme-2022-108701 SP - jme-2022-108701 AU - Adam Omelianchuk Y1 - 2022/11/25 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2022/11/25/jme-2022-108701.abstract N2 - Smith argues that death caused by transplant surgery will not harm permanently unconscious patients, because they will not suffer a setback to their interests in the context of donation. Therefore, so the argument goes, the dead donor rule can be abandoned, because requiring a death declaration before procurement does not protect any relevant interest from being thwarted. Smith contends that a virtue of his argument is that it avoids the controversies over defining and determining death. I argue that it does not and explain why no change in policy is justified. ER -