Ethicists Warn About the Dangers of Linking Assisted Suicide to Organ Donation

January 6, 2026 World News

Shakirov Albert
‘If society promotes the idea that you can regain value by volunteering to die,’ Dr. E. Wesley Ely, a former medical director of lung transplantation, told the Register, ‘we’ll create a suicide pipeline.’

Medically assisted suicide is gaining a foothold in the U.S. at a time when the current organ-donation system in the United States is on the defensive in the wake of published reports of abuses.

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