The current criteria on brain death were set by a Harvard Medical School committee in 1968, at a time when organ transplantation was making great strides.
The bill to introduce an opt-out system, which presumes people have consented to being organ donors unless they state otherwise, is making its way through the assembly.
In an interview about the filming of "North by Northwest, " screenwriter Ernest Lehman recounted what director Alfred Hitchcock had told him about making a movie: "The audience is like a giant organ that you and I are playing, " Hitch had said in an expansive mood.