2016 Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 1-20
I organized the 49th meeting of the Japanese Society for Clinical Renal Transplantation as president under the theme of “Reconsideration of the view of life and death for organ transplantation in Japan”, and summarized the future outlook based on my presidential address and the keynote addresses of nine lecturers. In my address, I described the historical and folkloric background of this area and gave us the chance to review changes of the social environment surrounding transplantation medicine. In the keynote addresses, each lecturer delivered a talk on a common theme：“Death of the second person” from various points of view. In conclusion, I emphasized that brain death should be regarded as a whole death, that organ transplantation should be accelerated, that not living but deceased donors should be increased, and that I am willing to donate my organs in the case of my brain death.
