Question

Please watch the video CNN: Organ Donation or Assisted Suicide?

Then, please discuss the ethical and legal issues presented by an attempted organ donation of this type.

Do you think this type of organ donation would deter future organ donors? Why or why not?

If the gentleman in this video did somehow manage to donate his organs in the manner described, would an autopsy be required postmortem? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Organ donation or Assisted suicide:
Ethical and legal issues:
Here two seperate request,first euthanasia and second organ donation after death,showing that organ harvesting after euthanasia may be considered and accepted from ethical.legal and practical viewpoints in countries where euthanasia is legally accepted..Ethanasia and organ retrieval should be kept seperate as possible..organs shall only be allocated to countries that accept the transplantation of this type of donar organ..Physician assisted death(PAD) and Donation after illness are controversial to some need to increase quantity and quality and respect donar autonomy..
   In this case man he requested his organ to be donated after physician-assisted death..There are some two seperate process for legal issues euthanasia and organ failure and guidelines for organ donation..In future this possibility may increase if it is legally accepted to provide some comfort to the donar and their family,considering that the termination of the patient's life may help other human beings in need for organ transplantation..
   Medically aid in dying(MAID) has the potential to provide additional organs available for transportation..Accepting to procedure organ donation after MAID is a way to respect the autonomy of patients,for whom organ donation is an important value..