Educational centres such as the one at McMaster University are appreciated of the altruistic decision body donors make, but don’t want to provide vulnerable people with a reason to end their lives if they’re considering medically assisted death
In the normal course of his work as director of an anatomy lab, Bruce Wainman can’t predict when a new body might arrive for his students to dissect.
The law opens up an important new source of good-quality cadavers, but it also raises delicate questions about how anatomy programs should deal with grievously ill patients and families who contact them about body donation while they are exploring the option of a physician-assisted death. McMaster has received six whole-body donations from people who underwent an assisted death since Canada’s law took effect in June, 2016.Some other universities report similar figures: The University of Alberta has accepted seven such donations; the University of Calgary has accepted five; and Queen’s University in Kingston has accepted an estimated four or five, but can’t say for certain because the school’s anatomy program does not always know whether a death was doctor-assisted.
One of the trickiest things about drafting the article, he said, was acknowledging the fact that physician-assisted death is a new source of comparatively high-quality bodies for teaching the next generation of doctors, surgeons, midwives, physiotherapists, chiropractors and other health professionals.
Debbie Adkinson says she is confident that her younger sister, Sheila Adkinson, got exactly what she wanted when she choose to donate her body to McMaster after receiving an assisted death at the age of 56 last July.
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