Diagnose Hirntod (1993)

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 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.