An American man in late-stage heart failure received a donor heart from a 38-year-old Canadian man with ALS killed earlier this year under that country’s decade-old euthanasia law. It’s the first-ever heart transplant from a Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) donor.
“The case involved a 59-year-old man with rapidly worsening heart failure who wasn’t expected to survive more than a month,” Canada’s National Post reported, and “the time from retrieval to transplant was five hours and 28 minutes.”
