The growing trend of organ harvesting from victims of Canada’s euthanasia programme

By Rhoda Wilson on October 2, 2025

There is a growing trend in Canada to harvest organs from euthanasia victims, which the Canadian state calls Medical Assistance in Dying (“MAID”).

Ethicists have warned that harvesting organs from euthanised patients could result in pressuring people to opt for death so that their organs can be used by those with better prognoses, Jonathon van Maren writes.

Canada is Turning Its Assisted Suicide Regime into an Organ Donation Supply Chain

By Jonathon van Maren, as published by Life Site News

The heart of a 38-year-old Canadian man who was euthanised was successfully harvested and donated to a 59-year-old American man with heart failure, according to the National Post. The case highlights a growing trend: organs being harvested from euthanasia victims.

A report from The University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre and The Ottawa Hospital detailed the procedure. “Here we report the first case of successful cardiac transplantation after MAiD,” the medical team wrote. And, more ominously: “Provision of MAiD and death determination occurred in keeping with Canadian standards. Death was declared within seven minutes of initiating the MAiD protocol.”

The Canadian was suffering from ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s disease), and had indicated his desire to donate his organs, but this is a “landmark case of a heart transplant following euthanasia.” According to the National Post: “The dead donor’s heart was removed, attached to a special machine that ‘reanimates’ or restarts the heart to keep blood flowing through the organs while keeping them warm, and then transported to Pittsburgh, where the transplant took place.”

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