Nature Medicine
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In 2016, Canada became one of the few countries in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia. Since the passage of the new rules, people living there with a “grievous and irremediable medical condition” can choose to have their lives ended by the administration of a lethal cocktail of drugs. Many medical organizations, including the World Medical Association, are strongly opposed to the practice. But now a further ethical dilemma has emerged: some of the patients seeking physician-assisted death have also expressed their wishes to donate their tissues to science to help researchers treat and cure their illnesses in future generations. Read more on the Nature Medicine website…
