Conflict rationalisation: How family members cope with a diagnosis of brain stem death

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Long et al (2008) looked at how family members cope with a diagnosis of brain stem death, a diagnosis needed for heart-beating donation to occur.

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This qualitative study used constructionist grounded theory to analyse 28 interviews with family members who had agreed to donate their relatives’ organs, leading to the theory of Paradoxical Death.