Canada Provides More Organs From Assisted Suicide Recipients for Transplant Than Any Other Country

Canada Provides More Organs From Assisted Suicide Recipients for Transplant Than Any Other Country
A "euthanasia kit" available in the 250 Belgian Multipharma's chemist shops for general practitioners who want to practice euthanasia at patients' homes, in Brussels, Belgium, on April 18, 2005. Etienne Ansotte/AFP via Getty Images
Marnie Cathcart
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Canadian patients who opt for euthanasia provide more transplant organs than any other country globally that allows physician-assisted suicide, according to the first international review of medical assistance in dying (MAID).

Patients in Canada who decide to end their lives with physician help also contributed to almost half of the world’s documented organ transplants occurring after euthanasia.