Canada’s Organ Harvesting from Suicides Reveals Culture of Death
[X] portal reports increasing organ donations tied to Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, with experts warning this creates pressure for vulnerable patients to choose death. Data shows substantial growth in organ procurement from euthanasia victims since MAID’s 2016 legalization. The article cites anesthesia professor Claire Middleton opposing MAID on ethical grounds and Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition condemning the practice. Disturbingly, some Canadian medical ethicists propose killing patients through organ removal itself to bypass the “dead donor rule.”
Sacrilegious Violation of Human Dignity
The practice of harvesting organs from euthanasia victims constitutes direct cooperation in intrinsically evil acts. Pope Pius XII’s 1957 allocution Quaestio de anima established the absolute prohibition against violating bodily integrity before natural death. The Canadian system violates the Church’s perennial teaching that “it is not lawful to kill one human being, even if it is to save another” (Catechism of St. Pius X). By treating human lives as medical commodities, Canada institutionalizes what Pius XI condemned as the regnum hominis (reign of man) replacing the Regnum Christi (Kingdom of Christ).
Euthanasia as Social Engineering
Middleton’s observation that patients seek MAID due to “social issues or lack of support” exposes the modernist lie of “compassionate death.” The Church has always taught that suffering must be alleviated through charity, not eliminated through murder. As Leo XIII declared in Rerum Novarum, society’s duty is to “succor the wretched” through works of mercy, not exterminate them. Canada’s euthanasia program implements the Malthusian eugenics long condemned by Catholic moral theology.
Abandonment of Medical Ethics
Robert Sibbald’s proposal to kill patients through organ removal constitutes medical Satanism. This violates the Hippocratic Oath’s fundamental principle primum non nocere (first, do no harm) which the Church upheld for millennia. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 2350) mandated excommunication for doctors performing euthanasia. Modern Canada inverts this sacred principle, transforming healers into executioners – a fulfillment of Pius X’s warning in Pascendi about modernist corruption destroying all moral boundaries.
Silence on Supernatural Realities
The article’s secular framework ignores the gravissimum periculum (most grave danger) facing euthanasia victims: eternal damnation. The Council of Trent (Session XIV, Chapter IV) anathematized those claiming suicide victims could attain salvation. By omitting this eternal perspective, Canadian authorities implicitly promote the modernist heresy that “man is his own law” (Pius IX, Syllabus Errorum, Proposition 55). The MAID program institutionalizes what St. Augustine called the libido dominandi (lust for domination) – man playing God over life and death.
False Compassion Masking Spiritual Bankruptcy
Canada’s euthanasia regime embodies the “culture of death” decried by Catholic tradition. The illusion of “organ donation as life-giving” masks the diabolical reality of harvesting body parts from despairing souls. As St. Paul teaches, “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). By rejecting Christ’s Kingship over society, Canada fulfills the prophetic warning: “They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption” (2 Peter 2:19). Only submission to the Social Reign of Christ the King can cure this national apostasy.
Source:
Experts warn that organ donation could help drive high assisted suicide rates in Canada (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.02.2026