Accepted medical practice already violates the dead donor rule. Explicitly jettisoning the rule -- allowing vital organs to be extracted, under certain conditions, from living patients -- is a radical change only at the conceptual level. But it would expand the pools of eligible organ donors.
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Miller et al. (2008) studied this question.
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