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“We’ve got your uncle. What do you want us to do with him?” The phone call from the Vancouver RCMP in the fall of 2024 was disconcerting, to say the least. And a little puzzling. Uncle Joe Atherton was no scofflaw. His nieces and nephews knew him as a devoted husband, an engaging raconteur, a gifted wood carver and a competitive archer. Oh, and a high-ranking Mountie. We also knew he had been dead for 36 years. And therein lies a tale — a mystery, really — beginning with an idle comment over a couple of beers that would lead to a clandestine burial, a half-believed legend, and a...
July 23, 2026 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
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A new paper is reviving the idea of “death by organ donation” — retrieving organs from MAID patients while they are sedated and unconscious but still alive. Current law prohibits it, due to the long-standing dead donor rule, or DDR, which holds that people must be dead before organs can be removed (the “Death Requirement”) and that doctors must not kill a person by means of procuring his or her organs (the “Don’t Kill Rule”). However, the authors of a new paper published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine say the growing acceptance of voluntary euthanasia complicates...
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