# End-of-Life Care and Organ Donation: Rethinking Legislative Separation

## TL;DR

The paper discusses how separating laws on end-of-life care and organ donation may impact medical practices and ethical considerations.

## Contribution

It introduces a critical analysis of legislative separation in end-of-life and organ donation contexts.

## Key findings

- Legislative separation may lead to ethical and practical challenges in organ donation after circulatory death.
- Current laws may not adequately address the consequences of withdrawing life-sustaining treatment for donation purposes.

## Abstract

Reflections on Claire O’Callaghan and Brendan Parent’s article “Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Organ Donation After Circulatory Death: Consequences of Legislative Separation.”