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  • Diagnose Hirntod (1993)
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Diagnose Hirntod (1993)
Documentary
Every year, hundreds of people die on the "waiting list" for a replacement organ that promises a second chance. In legal terms, transplantation medicine is still in a kind of grey area, has "supply problems" and is discredited. In addition...See moreEvery year, hundreds of people die on the "waiting list" for a replacement organ that promises a second chance. In legal terms, transplantation medicine is still in a kind of grey area, has "supply problems" and is discredited. In addition to the ethical aspect, the main difference is the clarification of the question: "When is man dead? For centuries, cardiac arrest and respiratory arrest were reliable indicators. With the progressive development of medical technology, this point in time shifts into a vacuum of columns of numbers on the computer printout that is hardly comprehensible to the layman. The terminal station is the so-called brain death diagnostics, a procedure that is supposed to determine the complete failure of any brain current activity - today's criterion for the irreversible state of death. The film tries to trace the paths of those affected: "reborn", waiting and those who have decided on the second chance of others. Written by Martin Thoma See less
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Director
Martin Thoma
Writers
Martin Thoma (writer) | Erik Trump (writer)
Producer
Martin Thoma (producer)
Cinematographers
Hubert Ersinger (cinematography) | Martin Thoma (cinematography)
Editor
Martin Thoma
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Updated Dec 31, 1993
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1993 (Germany)

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