The dead donor rule states that donation should not cause or hasten death. Since a patient undergoing euthanasia has chosen to die, it is worth arguing that the no-touch time [the wait between cardiac arrest and procurement] could be skipped...contributing to the quality of the transplanted organs. It is even possible to extend this argument to a "heart-beating organ donation euthanasia" where a patient is sedated, after which his organs are removed, causing death.

We now can clearly discern what a "biologically oriented" society looks like: a culture in which the deaths of the most vulnerable are seen as having greater value than their continuing lives. As Leo Alexander presciently cautioned 67 years ago, "At this point, Americans should remember that the enormity of the euthanasia movement is present in their own midst."