Legal, Moral, and Ethical Issues Related to Cardiac Death Donation

After 20 years development of organ transplantation project in China, it has successfully transformed from relying on judicial channels to the source of voluntary donation by citizens, and gradually moved toward to institutionalization, standardization and legalization channel. The major breakthrough in citizen organ donation has not only brought great well-being to mankind, but also brought serious ethical challenges. However, the human organ properties, such as social, ethical, and legal issues, are special in the process of organ transplantation, which directly affects the application and development of transplantation technology. The reasons lack of donor organ partially due to the unreasonable and traditional morality concept. China is committed to using the model of DCD to carry out organ donation work, hoping to seek and establish a controlled donation model, which is scientific in line with the current situation. Chinese people have been raised by Confucian culture for many years. The application of DCD mode has rekindled the hope of nearly 1.5 million patients who need organ transplantation, but DCD is worth exploring the legal, moral, and ethical problems that may be encountered in the implementation process of donation.