Washburn reports that some Canadian physicians are pushing to permit euthanasia by donation.

Other Canadian doctors have publicly embraced “death by donation,” and a study came out earlier this year exploring euthanasia programs such as MAID as a means of organ harvesting. Canada legalized euthanasia in 2016, and since then the number of Canadians using MAID to kill themselves has significantly increased.

Canadian doctors are also challenging the “Dead Donor rule.” Allowing euthanasia by organ donation would require a change to the dead donor rule since the donors would be alive.

The question then arises: why kill a person by lethal poison first and then remove the healthy organs when removing healthy organs first, is more efficacious and will naturally result in a dead person.