NEJM Paper Proposes Death by Organ Donation
The proposal would let euthanasia patients donate organs before death, a move supporters say could make transplants more viable and critics call unethical.
- A New England Journal article proposes "Death by Organ Donation," where doctors would remove organs from anesthetized euthanasia patients to cause death, an approach Robert Truog and Carter Winberg argue maximizes altruistic goals for patients already choosing to die.
- Current standards require patients be dead before organ removal, and doctors cannot cause death during procurement. Truog notes that lethal drugs make organs, especially hearts, "much less useful for transplantation" than if organs were removed while functioning.
- Proponent Carter Winberg says, "If there are people who want to donate organs, this would be the way to maximize their wishes and their altruistic goal to help others." Supporters believe respecting patient autonomy justifies this framework.
- Lainie Friedman Ross calls the proposal "murder," while Lori Andrews warns, "You could be doing real damage to both the physician-assisted suicide system and the organ donation system," evoking fears of "vultures."
- With euthanasia legal in Canada, the Netherlands, and Spain, the debate is emerging globally. Ruth Faden argues that while the concept is "creepy," critical examination suggests it may not be as "disturbing" as it first appears.
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The Dead Donor Rule Is Under Attack — And Real Cases Show Why It Matters | Fresh Off The Press
A proposal published in the New England Journal of Medicine wants to let doctors harvest organs from patients who are still alive — and calls it an act of compassion. Quick Take A new proposal called “Death by Organ Donation” would allow euthanasia patients to die during organ harvesting rather than before it Supporters argue patient autonomy justifies the shift, but bioethicists and surgeons are calling it murder The proposal would scrap the “…
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ussanews.comDoctors Call for Patients to Be Killed for Their Organs
by Frank Bergman, Slay News: A group of leading medical professionals has provoked widespread concerns after proposing that doctors should be allowed to kill their patients in order to harvest their body parts through a process they call “death by organ donation.” The bone-chilling call was made in a new article published in the New […]
Death by Organ Donation: They're Killing Patients to Harvest Their Organs
The legalization of assisted suicide/euthanasia corrupts medical ethics and not just because killing patients or assisting their suicides is a direct violation of the Hippocratic oath. No: Transforming sick and disabled people into a killable caste also objectifies them as potential natural resources to be mined or harvested. Hastened death and organ-harvesting have already been […] The post Death by Organ Donation: They’re Killing Patients to H…
The proposal challenges the Dead Donor Rule. It would allow surgeons to remove organs from patients even when they are alive.
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