Here’s some good news that doesn’t really sound like good news at all. In Ontario, Canada, the supply of donor organs has been given a boost by people donating their organs before undergoing medically assisted death (or MAiD).
Medically assisted deaths provide boost to organ donation in Ontario https://t.co/PsABbMdOUb pic.twitter.com/YYcAgHA1Jq
— Ottawa Citizen (@OttawaCitizen) January 6, 2020
Ontarians who opt for medically assisted deaths (MAiD) are increasingly saving or improving other people’s lives by also including organ and tissue donation as part of their final wishes.
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Canada decriminalized medically assisted death in 2016, and Ontario, through Trillium [Gift of Life Network], immediately moved to the forefront of organ and tissue donation through MAiD, becoming the first jurisdiction in the world to proactively reach out to those who had been approved for assisted death to discuss donation. When a death is imminent, whether through a hospital or MAiD, Trillium must by law be notified.
Is this what doctors signed up for?
The linkage of the two is very bad from a medical ethics standpoint. https://t.co/7ko5Xi7KhG
— Joe Pilot, MD (@JoeSilverman7) January 6, 2020
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Oof. Wow. Not ok.
— Pope Thanos The II (@thanos_pope) January 6, 2020
Government involvement in healthcare rarely takes ethics into consideration
— A Box of Khamenei’s Tears (@ABoxOfRocks23) January 7, 2020
The only connection I have to the medical profession is as the occasional patient, & I can tell you that the linkage of the two is also pretty bad simply from a layman's PR perspective.
— BoSox04 (@ActuallyDontGAS) January 6, 2020
Weirdly bad form, no?
— Fungschwei (@FungschweiVIRUS) January 7, 2020
Ummm… don't you need a live donor for transplantation? I mean, the brain can be toast, but doesn't the heart have to be pumping blood to the organs to keep them viable? Are they seriously using organ removal as the means of ending those lives?
— goroke (@goroke_mi) January 6, 2020
So basically they're running a medical chop shop in Ottawa?
— Joshua D. Vesper (@JoshuaDVesper) January 7, 2020
this is just plain creepy on so many levels.
— @modgirl26 (@modgirl26) January 7, 2020
This is sickening to me.
— Right Wing Jewess (@RightWingJewess) January 6, 2020
No kidding! It is a very short ethical walk from inconvenient babies to inconvenient adults.
— ?? The Tropical Cow ??? (@Tropicow) January 6, 2020
China called, they salute your attempt to use undesireables for organ harvesting. Glory to the revolution.
— Loren (@LorenSethC) January 6, 2020
I’m going to have to hide my special needs child someday, aren’t I?
— Todd of Mischief (@AndToddsaid) January 6, 2020
Just from the headline and image alone, I am so completely overwhelmed with an unsettling mixture of strong emotions that I can't even read the article right now. ?
— Tom Megginson ⚡️adperson (@CreativeTweets) January 6, 2020
This is on the same level as Iceland saying "We eliminated Down's Syndrome (because we aborted them all)."
— Brian V (@spid3rdad) January 6, 2020
Well, that's horrifying.
— Girl_Grimly (@ed_grimly) January 6, 2020
This is repulsive.
— Mickey G(eonosis was an inside job) (@ex_asperis) January 6, 2020
Dehumanizing.
— Danny (@DannyPace) January 6, 2020
I’ll eventually need a kidney transplant. I would die before I accepted something like this.
— Truthy McTrutherson (@MartinDeLaTwit) January 6, 2020
Step 1: Promote suicide
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Free organs.— Winston Smith (@candleman67) January 6, 2020
Let’s call it what it is. Euthanasia.
— Lisa ?? I [use to] ❤️ NY (@no_theotherNY) January 7, 2020
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GHOULS! StemExpress profited HOW MUCH off baby parts harvested at Planned Parenthood?!https://t.co/JIcT9JntqB
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 5, 2017
