New Pro-Deather Idea: Take Harvesting Organs From Living Patients

Here's another slippery slope. Initially, everyone agreed that an organ donor had to be dead before harvesting organs. Now some are floating the idea that waiting for death is passé. Why not harvest organs from living patients? Ghoulish.

‘Dead-donor’ rule dangerously misleading, experts say

Doctors should abandon the “dangerously misleading” policy of having to declare donors dead before their organs can be extracted for transplant, and adopt a more honest policy that acknowledges some patients may still be technically alive, Canadian and Spanish experts suggest in a provocative new commentary. more