The Defenseless Dead is a science fiction novella by American writer Larry Niven, set in the Known Space universe.
Science fiction philosopher Stephen R. L. Clark, in his work How to Live Forever (1995), mistakenly credits this story with inventing the term "corpsicle".
A few years later with the organ banks running low, the second "Freezer Law" is going through the legislative process, this time targeting the insane, some quite wealthy.
Closer investigation reveals the attacker to be a former organlegger who retired after the first Freezer Bill went into law.
Although the heir looks the same, his body hosts the brain and spinal column of a top boss organlegger.