Acts, omissions, and euthanasia for organ donation
Organ donation euthanasia is gaining traction in the world of bioethics. With the push to legalise assisted dying in several Western countries, bioethicists are starting...
The Matrix. Euthanasia and organ donation
You probably remember the scene in The Matrix in which Morpheus explains to Neo the terrible secret: “You take the blue pill—the story ends, you...
Let’s increase organ transplant rates by encouraging euthanasia patients to donate, say doctors
Specialists call for red tape to be cut to allow simpler donation procedures. Since 2005 about 40 people in Belgium and the Netherlands have successfully...
Everybody’s a winner when euthanasia combines with organ donation, say doctors
Several Dutch and Belgian doctors have proposed legal reforms to increase the popularity of combining euthanasia and organ donation in the Netherlands and Belgium. Writing...
Swiss bioethicist backs organ donor euthanasia
The idea of using patients as organ donors if they request assisted suicide or euthanasia seems to be catching on. This is reasonably common in...
An eloquent defense of euthanasia by organ removal
In a recent article in the journal Bioethics, two Oxford bioethicists provide a lucid defense of euthanasia by organ removal. The notion of death by...
Dutch doctors want to harvest organs of euthanased patients
The number of organs available for transplant in the Netherlands could double. Doctors in the Netherlands are developing a protocol which will increase the number...
Euthanased patients a new source of organ donations in Belgium
With a shortage of organ donors in Europe, Belgian doctors have a novel solution: patients with unbearable suffering donate their organs after voluntary euthanasia. With...
Belgium pioneers organ donation after voluntary euthanasia
The practice of transplanting organs from patients who die after voluntary euthanasia is becoming customary in Belgium.The practice of transplanting organs from patients who die...
Belgian transplant surgeons use lungs from euthanased patients
Using organs from euthanased patients seem to have become a well established procedure in Belgium, only nine years after it was legalized. A press release...
Belgian doctors harvest high quality organs from euthanased patients
Participation is voluntary A group of Belgian doctors are harvesting “high quality” organs from patients who have been euthanased. This is not a secret project,...
Belgian surgeons harvest organs after euthanasia
Not just a bright idea How often is this going on in Belgium and the Netherlands? Bioethics blogger Wesley Smith drew our attention to a...