New frontiers in organ donation: from DDR to ODE to LVOD
After Organ Donor Euthanasia (ODE), what’s next? Living vital organ donation (LVOD) – giving your heart away even though you aren’t ill or dying. Apologies...
Canada leads the world in organ donation euthanasia
Canada legalised euthanasia in 2016, long after Belgium and the Netherlands, but it is already the world leader in organ donation euthanasia. A survey of...
Are Canadians having buyer’s remorse about euthanasia?
Finally, after 40,000 or so deaths, Canadians are having second thoughts about legalised euthanasia. Euthanasia deaths in Canada have shot upwards like a skyrocket. In...
Spanish gunman euthanised before going to trial
Marin Eugen Sabau, the Romanian security guard who went beserk in December and shot fellow employees and wounded two police officer, has been euthanised in...
7 Spaniards who were euthanised last year donated their organs
Well, well, well, that didn’t take long, did it? Spain legalised euthanasia on June 25 last year and already transplant surgeons are using organs from...
‘A pure act of altruism’: organ donation after euthanasia
Dutch physicians argue for at-home euthanasia before retrieving organs Organ donation after euthanasia is possible in the Netherlands, Belgium and Canada. However, it still is...
What do Quebec doctors think of organ donation euthanasia?
A survey yields interesting comments Euthanasia, or Medical assistance in dying (MAID) as it is called in Canada, has been legal in Québec since December...
Home euthanasia
Where it is legalised, euthanasia is becoming more and more integrated into the practice of medicine. One of the more useful -- or ghoulish –...
Home is where the heart is for Dutch euthanasia
Doctors have developed home-based euthanasia plus organ donation There’s always something new that you can learn about euthanasia practices. An indignant letter to JAMA Surgery...
The elderly can still be heroes in the Covid-19 crisis
Two bioethicists argue that victims can offer their bodies for experimentation and organ donation Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton goes to the guillotine in A...
Assisted suicide makes good economic sense, argue Scottish academics
A new study in the journal Clinical Ethics claims that permitting assisted dying would substantially benefit both those seeking assisted suicide and the public. Two...
Is the NEJM pushing organ donation after euthanasia?
We need a debate, suggests a recent article The latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an engaging appeal to consider the...