Organ donation after assisted suicide: : a potential solution to the organ scarcity problem

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Organ donation after assisted suicide: : a potential solution to the organ scarcity problem

JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)

ID	2561331
Author(s)	Shaw, David
Author(s) at UniBasel	Shaw, David
Year	2014
Title	Organ donation after assisted suicide: : a potential solution to the organ scarcity problem
Journal	Transplantation
Volume	98
Number	3
Pages / Article-Number	247-51
Keywords	Organ donation, Assisted suicide, Ethics, Switzerland
Mesh terms	Death; Humans; Suicide, Assisted; Switzerland; Tissue and Organ Procurement, ethics
Abstract	Switzerland has low deceased organ donation rates. It is also one of the few countries where assisted suicide is decriminalized in some circumstances. If organs donated by Swiss and foreign citizens assisted in committing suicide in Switzerland were used for transplantation, the country could achieve a surplus of organs. There are several practical problems and ethical and legal objections to this proposal, all of which can be overcome. Organ donation after planned death is a potential solution to the organ scarcity problem in any country that permits assisted dying.
Publisher	Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISSN/ISBN	0041-1337
edoc-URL	http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A6263127
Full Text on edoc	Restricted
Digital Object Identifier DOI	10.1097/TP.0000000000000099
PubMed ID	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24825514
ISI-Number	WOS:000340381100008
Document type (ISI)	Editorial

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