{"id":1547,"date":"2026-08-20T05:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:37:52","slug":"euthanasia-and-organ-donation-when-death-becomes-a-medical-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia and Organ Donation: When Death Becomes a Medical Resource"},"content":{"rendered":"
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N<\/span>o one envies Karen Duncan her diagnosis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Motor Neuron Disease attacks the body\u2019s nerve cells, and in Duncan\u2019s case, it was doing so quickly. Her muscles <\/span>ached and cramped<\/span>; then she had to walk with a cane; then she had to motor around in a wheelchair; meanwhile, she stopped being able to trust her thoughts and emotions. Her prognosis wasn\u2019t good either: things would get progressively worse, she would eventually be paralyzed, and then she would die.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So Duncan did what anyone steeped in our modern liberal moral worldview might do. She took a pill to end it all, joining the more than 3,000 Australians who opt to do so every year under the nation\u2019s assisted dying policies. Thirty-nine minutes <\/span>later<\/span>, doctors wheeled her out of her hospital room to remove her lungs, kidneys, a heart valve, and some eye tissue. If you\u2019re starting to feel like there might be some ethical issues here, don\u2019t worry \u2014\u00a0 according to the <\/span>Australian Broadcasting Corporation<\/span> (ABC), Duncan felt \u201cno pressure at all.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The fact is, euthanasia was never compassionate or moral, and coupling it with organ donation makes that glaringly obvious.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Duncan\u2019s case was unique only because no one had self-administered poison and then donated her organs before. A handful of patients in Australia opting for assisted suicide procedures have donated their organs in the last few years (since the first case in 2023), but in all those cases doctors had injected the murderous drug directly into patients\u2019 veins \u2014 when the doctor is the one doing it, he can control exactly how dead his patient is before he attempts to harvest her organs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Combining organ harvesting with assisted suicide is a relatively new phenomenon, although it\u2019s technically not illegal in places like the Netherlands (which effectively spearheaded the whole euthanasia movement), Belgium, Spain, and Canada. If you don\u2019t think too hard about it, it doesn\u2019t seem like the worst idea ever. After all, these people were already going to commit suicide; now they\u2019re generously helping other people live.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except, it\u2019s not quite that simple. It\u2019s not like we\u2019re going to just keep patiently waiting for women like Duncan to die 39 minutes after they\u2019ve ingested a pill. We need quality organs, and the best way to get those is to cut them out of living bodies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, last month, several doctors proposed a solution in the <\/span>New England Journal of Medicine<\/span><\/i>: patients hoping to die \u201cwith dignity\u201d should be able to opt to do so via organ donation. Essentially, these \u201cdoctors\u201d are proposing that they kill their patients on the operating room table by cutting valuable organs out of their bodies. \u201cIt would be an ethical thing to do because this is something the patients have chosen for themselves,\u201d one of the paper\u2019s authors insisted. \u201cThey have very generously thought: \u2018How might my death help other people?\u2019 It\u2019s a very altruistic, generous thing to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There are, of course, several moral issues wrapped up in all of this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, there\u2019s the moral question of euthanasia itself. Liberal morality functions off the premise that individuals should be radically free to make choices having to do with their person. Want to have sexual relations with someone? Just make sure everyone is consenting. How about suicide? Well, as long as you consent, everything is just fine. Things only become hairy when the individual loses control over his own body, or when he\u2019s not capable of consent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Traditional morality functions on something far less subjective than individual whims. In the case of suicide, for instance, Thomas Aquinas <\/span>assures<\/span> us that, while \u201cman is made master of himself through his free-will,\u201d that mastery doesn\u2019t extend to his life \u201cbecause life is God\u2019s gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not that consent doesn\u2019t exist, but that it\u2019s not the objective standard by which all actions are measured.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the primary problem with euthanasia programs. Yes, it\u2019s true that patients of certain <\/span>demographics<\/span> are being coerced into opting for medical suicide \u2014 that\u2019s an abuse under any moral standard \u2014 but like it or not, suicide is simply objectively wrong. There\u2019s not really an out for that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the issue of organ donation. Usually, patients must be dead before any organs are harvested \u2014 but how do you define death? If you wait until the heart stops, organs are frequently completely useless.<\/span><\/p>\n

So in 1968, a group of Harvard doctors came up with brain death, in part because they needed organs. The question, in the <\/span>words of Henry Beecher<\/span>, one of those Harvard doctors, was simply this: \u201ccan society afford to discard the tissues and organs of the hopelessly unconscious patient when they could be used to restore the otherwise hopelessly ill, but still salvageable individual?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To be clear, when a patient is considered brain dead (i.e., his brain activity has totally and irreversibly ceased), his heart is still beating, he might be breathing, excreting waste, and even healing from infection. As it turns out, irreversible brain death is rather difficult to ascertain. In recent years, there have been <\/span>multiple cases of patients<\/span> who were considered brain dead, were being prepared for organ donation, managed to come out of it just in time, and made a full recovery. All of this, of course, makes one wonder whether that 1968 determination might just be a bit faulty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lest you think this is all just some ghastly mistake, it\u2019s not like the medical industry doesn\u2019t make money when it transfers organs from one patient to another. One <\/span>financial analysis<\/span> found that the total profit for the medical industry in the United States from a typical deceased organ donor might be as high as $1.3 million. With that in mind, why wouldn\u2019t the doctors writing for the <\/span>New England Journal of Medicine<\/span><\/i> want more organ donors? Especially if the organs are going to be in pristine condition?<\/span><\/p>\n

The fact is, euthanasia was never compassionate or moral, and coupling it with organ donation makes that glaringly obvious. These \u201cdoctors\u201d are trying to feed patients into a supply chain with the excuse that there\u2019s a consent form attached, so it must be moral. But what else could we expect in a world where morality is determined by individual whim?<\/span><\/p>\n

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