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The unpleasant truth is that, other than in cases of complete brain death, there is effectively no way to do a heart transplant without murder. If a heart can be made to beat again, it can be made to beat again. There is not any version of this issue that isn't a particularly morbid form of the trolley problem.

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> There is not any version of this issue that isn't a particularly morbid form of the trolley problem.

Do you believe withdrawing life support is murder? What about a doctor following a patients do-not-resuscitate order?

If an accident causes someone to be decapitated, is transplanting the heart from the headless corpse still murder? What if it wasn't an accident but a beheading; who committed the murder, the person that cut off the persons head, or the person that transplanted the heart (or was the victim murdered twice).

How many people, for a long enough period to be meaningful to the question, still have brain activity after being decapitated?

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