Ethical questions surge after woman's suicide ... and organ donation!
An Australian woman is being praised as the country’s first organ donor after utilizing the country’s Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) assisted suicide laws.
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An Australian woman is being praised as the country’s first organ donor after utilizing the country’s Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) assisted suicide laws.
There were no guidelines in Australia, only overseas precedent.
There were no guidelines in Australia, only overseas precedent.
Marianne had been on the organ donation wait list for more than 12 years. Just 36 per cent of Australians are registered organ donors, and Victoria has the lowest rates of all jurisdictions, at 23 per cent.
New data shows fewer than one in five people are registered as organ donors in some parts of Sydney and Melbourne.