The concept of brain death is a utilitarian construct that allows doctors to skirt the dead donor rule by declaring neurologically disabled people to be dead by fiat. It’s been more than fifty years since the 1968 Harvard ad hoc Committee’s landmark report, “A Definition of Irreversible Coma,” and there remains no medical or moral evidence that these people are dead. Also, the newest American Academy of Neurology brain death guideline explicitly states that death may be declared in the presence of partial brain function, even though the Uniform Determination of Death Act demands the “irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain.” Brain dead people are not medically, morally, or legally dead, and harvesting them for their organs is a concealed form of euthanasia.