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Disputes on Organ Donation of Brain-dead People Traditional medical science defines death as cessation of blood circulation, respiratory arrest and cardiac arrest. However, with the development of science and technology, those traditionally dead people can be kept alive with the assistance of sophisticated instruments and thus made to be in the intermediate between death and living condition. Hence, existing technology challenges the traditional concept of death and requests new definition, that is, brain death. But when this concept is really applied in our daily life, there are lots of criticisms for this idea, which mainly focus on whether the brain death is the real death, whether the standard of brain death is universal, whether people will accept it morally, especially for those requesting the integrity of physical body and whether there is a base for corresponding laws to be issued, noticing that some countries still lacking in these laws. And on the other hand, it’s objective that there are several benefits for this new definition. In the social and family dimension, this standard can save medical resources and the family costs in hospital. In the level of public welfare, this standard can provide more effective organs to those suffering from corresponding disease. To narrow the topic, the following content is only for those brain-dead people who didn’t make clarification whether to donate their organs or not when they were alive since it’s quite clear to determine this clarification. And the proposal for this issue here is that relatives should be authorized to decide the organ donation of a brain-dead person. And the proposal will be proved as feasible through medical science, philosophical analyses, ethical proof and ultimately in accordance with divine laws. Medical Science Medically, the definition for brain death is: the irreversible end of all brain activity (including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life) due to total necrosis of the c