![]() ![]() He’d have known, too, he was raising questions to which even the doctors had no certain answers. 4 Kathy throws light on the ambiguous nature of the brain-dead patients who are kept on ventilator for organ retrieval thus:īut Tommy would have known I had nothing to back up my words. 2 Tommy states that the anxiety and ambiguity associated with the brain-dead phenomenon 3 is further augmented because of the medical practitioners’ inability to state definitely that the patient diagnosed with irreversible coma is dead. ![]() If you knew for certain you’d complete, it would be easier. ![]() Tommy states, “You know why it is, Kath, why everyone worries so much about the fourth? It’s because they’re not sure they’re really complete. While awaiting his fourth donation, Tommy often shares his suspicion with Kathy about the medical diagnosis of a patient as dead. 1 In Ishiguro’s novel, the human clone Kathy narrates the existential anxieties of Tommy and other clones who are waiting for their fourth organ donation after the completion of which they will be medically declared as dead. ![]() In his 2005, dystopian novel Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro speculates on the ethical issues of organ transplantation and human cloning, while also dramatizing the anxiety associated with the brain-dead phenomenon accepted as the extended ontology of death by the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School in the year 1968. ![]()
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