Though the brain death concept has advantages, Taiwan University's Wang Cheng-yi, a professor of surgery and one of the directors of the curriculum on "medical ethics" there, cannot help but protest that the brain dead person, like any ill person, deserves the protection of modern medicine.
雖然「腦死」病人遲早會死亡；而早點宣佈，對醫院、家屬，及等待捐贈者都有好處。但台大內科教授、也是台大醫學院「醫學倫理」課程負責人之一的王正一卻不免慨嘆，現代醫學既然這麼發達，那「腦死」病人也應該和癌症、或是其他重症病人一樣，享受現代醫學的保護。