Tag: organ donation

Doctor carrying a cooler box for organ transport doctor ensures swift and safe organ transport using specialized cooler box, optimizing life-saving medical procedures

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 17, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Australia, Belgium, bioethics, brain cancer, Canada, cause of death, coma, dead donor rule, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, homicide, medical ethics, mentally ill, natural resources, Netherlands, New Zealand, npr, organ donation, organ-harvesting, patients, recontextualization, Robert D. Truog, Spain, suffering, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Ghoulish Proposal: Killing for Organs Gets a Prestige Endorsement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 17, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Transforming sick and disabled people into a killable caste objectifies them as potential natural resources to be mined or harvested. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 1, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, death, doctors, euthanasia, hospitals, kidneys, medicine, Netherlands, Newsweek, organ donation, organ harvesting, organs, suicide}

Medical Journal Has a Ghoulish Proposal: Conjoining Euthanasia with Organ Harvesting

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 1, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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This much is clear: We are far down the road of objectifying the bodies of suicidal people to permit unethical acts. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, birth, California, Canada, doctors, Finland, France, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, glaciers, Holocaust, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom}

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2023

Bioethics, Botany, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Belgium, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, medicine, Netherlands, organ donation, organ harvesting, organs}

Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 22, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

6}

At first, this proposed killing license was supposed to be limited to patients on the verge of death or the permanently unconscious. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 17, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, coronavirus, euthanasia, Germany, Groningen protocol, human experimentation, infanticide, Jack Kevorkian, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, Netherlands, organ donation, pediatricians, quadriplegia, utilitarianism}

The Jack Kevorkian Plague

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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The pathogen I mean is a cultural pandemic, the embrace of doctor-prescribed suicide and of administered homicide. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 11, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, disabled, euthanasia, MAiD, mentally ill, Netherlands, Ontario, organ donation, patients}

In Canada, Euthanasia as “Boon” to Organ Donation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 11, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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Someday, Canada will probably dispense with the euthanasia part altogether and go straight to killing by organ harvesting. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 6, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, antibiotic resistance, consciousness, doctors, euthanasia, family, futile care, Las Vegas, life support, nurse practitioner, organ donation, patients, public policy, quality of life, viruses}

Why Families Should Decide When to “Pull Plugs”

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 6, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

When Frank saw signs of life, doctors would dismiss his observation as a “reflex.” How often I have heard that over 25 years of anti-euthanasia advocacy! Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 29, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, addiction, Alzheimer’s, Belgium, despair, euthanasia, fear, killing, loneliness, organ donation, psychiatric disorders, schizophrenia, suffering, suicide}

Euthanasia’s Moral Abyss — Belgian Edition

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 29, 2018

Bioethics

3}

The carnage so bloodlessly described in the Belgian report demonstrates vividly the consequences to a society when it generally accepts killing as a proper answer to human suffering. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 8, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Belgium, despair, mental illness, natural resources, Netherlands, organ donation, physician, suicide, suicide prevention, terminal illness}

Opening a Door to Assisted Suicide Organ Donors

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 8, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

We should not look at the suicidal as natural resources. Read More ›

Nurse or doctor give man support during recovery or loss. Caregiver holding hand of her sad senior patient and showing kindness while doing a checkup at a retirement, old age home or hospital

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 8, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __nedited, assisted suicide, euthanasia, life support, organ donation, patients, Supreme Court, Unnatural Death}

Treating the “Patient as a Person”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 8, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

We all have the right to refuse medical interventions. Read More ›