Published in:
01-09-2019 | Assisted Suicide | From the Inside
Death by organ donation: euthanizing patients for their organs gains frightening traction
Author:
E. Wesley Ely
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 9/2019
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Excerpt
How should society respond to the increasingly long list of people waiting for organs [
2] on a transplant list? You’ve no doubt heard of “black market” [
3] organs in foreign countries, but are there other options that should be off the table? If you were on a transplant list, would it matter to you if the organ was obtained from a living person who died because of the donation procedure itself? What if she had volunteered? …