...as soon as the babies heart stops beating but the brain may not be. That heart is then transplanted and restarted in another baby's body. The timing seems to make a difference in saving lives. The donating babies have no hope of survival, usually from severe brain damage. Quote 1: "'In a very important way, it's a wonderful story. You had three situations with hopeless medical problems who would have otherwise died but got this gift of life,'" Quote 2) "'This practice cannot be ethically justified... The donors are not dead. I understand that they would like us to change the definition of death, but they can't do that by themselves. It's very problematic to start treating a baby as an organ donor before it's dead.'"