%0 Journal Article %A Adam Omelianchuk %T Against abandoning the dead donor rule: reply to Smith %D 2022 %R 10.1136/jme-2022-108701 %J Journal of Medical Ethics %P jme-2022-108701 %X 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. %U https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/early/2022/11/25/jme-2022-108701.full.pdf