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If you have donor on your driver's license take them off. I did. You can decide when time is right when you're dying🚨 Doctors are openly proposing that patients be killed for their organs in a new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Harvard physician Dr. Robert Truog and his colleagues argue that the medical community should accept “death by organ donation,” a practice in which physicians would administer lethal injections or withdraw life support with the explicit intent of harvesting organs immediately afterward.At the heart of their argument is the Dead Donor Rule, the longstanding ethical standard that prohibits doctors from causing a patient’s death in order to obtain transplantable organs. The authors claim this rule has already been flexibly interpreted over time through concepts such as brain death and donation after circulatory death. They now advocate removing remaining barriers, suggesting that when patients consent to both euthanasia and organ donation, the exact timing of biological death should matter less than respecting their wishes and maintaining safeguards.This would mean shifting from a system where organs are taken only after a patient is declared dead to one where the act of organ procurement itself becomes the cause of death. The proposal highlights cases in which patients declared brain dead still demonstrated biological functions such as fighting infections or sustaining pregnancies, underscoring how death has been redefined to facilitate transplants.Many individuals who sign organ donor cards remain unaware of these evolving definitions and assume donation occurs only after complete and irreversible death. With euthanasia expanding and pressure on organ supply growing, combining the two practices could expose vulnerable patients, those in hospitals, under family stress, or facing difficult diagnoses, to subtle coercion or rushed decisions. True informed consent may prove difficult to guarantee when the incentive to harvest organs is strong.The article presents this idea not as speculation but as a logical extension of current practices, published in one of medicine’s premier journals. It raises urgent questions about the integrity of consent, the role of physicians, and the protection of human life at its most fragile moments. Should consent alone allow doctors to end a life for the purpose of harvesting organs, or does society need firmer boundaries to prevent patients from becoming victims of a system hungry for parts?This proposal deserves wide public attention and serious debate before it influences policy or practice.