Question

Premise A: Organ donation saves lives.
Premise B: There is religious and moral value in saving lives.
Premise C: Certain organs can be donated only from people who are considered dead.
Premise D: A person who cannot return to life is considered dead — I do not agree.
Premise E: A person with brain injury meets premise D.
Conclusion: Rabbis should rule that it is permitted to donate organs from a person with brain injury.
 
Counterexamples, according to the professor’s view: would a baby born with a brain defect that will certainly cause him to die within a year also be someone whose organs may be taken because he is going to die?! Or more generally, perhaps it would be possible to take organs from any living person because he is going to die. Rather, it is obvious that the fact that a person is going to die does not make him considered dead if at present, according to Jewish law / science, he is considered alive.
Right? (I couldn’t help myself.)