Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

OKAYAMA, Japan - Members of the medical team that will harvest lungs from a brain-dead man, whose family approved donation of his organs even though he did not leave his wishes in writing, depart the Okayama University Hospital in the city of Okayama on August 9. 2010. The family's approval marks the first such case under Japan's revised organ transplant law. (Kyodo)

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