Doctors Call for Patients to Be Killed for Their Organs– slaynews.com

A group of leading medical professionals has provoked widespread concerns after proposing that doctors should be allowed to kill their patients in order to harvest their body parts through a process they call “death by organ donation.”

The bone-chilling call was made in a new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The article, titled “Contextualizing the Dead Donor Rule in an Era of Voluntary Euthanasia,” was written by Harvard University’s Dr. Robert Truog and colleagues.

The authors argue that the medical system has already redefined death to support modern organ harvesting practices.

They now say “death by organ donation” should be viewed as the next step.

At the center of the debate is the Dead Donor Rule.

The rule is supposed to be one of the basic ethical limits protecting patients.