title: [Announcing the death of a loved one and the question of organ donation].
abstract: Medical advances have changed how death is diagnosed and defined. Total and irreversible brain damage can now be identified on the basis of sophisticated clinical and technical criteria. It allows doctors to certify the death and opens the possibility of organ donation. Brain death however upsets the normal representations and acceptance of death which complicates the issue of organ donation.
authors: Pascale
authors: P
authors: Furon
authors: Florence
authors: F
authors: Vachiéry-Lahaye
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death; D006801:Humans; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D020458:Third-Party Consent; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement