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ArticleThe Medical journal of Australia2026

Organ Donation After Oral Ingestion of a Voluntary Assisted Dying Substance.

Joanne Kantianis, Helen I Opdam, Rohit L D'Costa

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Article in The Medical journal of Australia, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Joanne KantianisUniversity Hospital Geelong, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0009-0000-0701-6310
Helen I OpdamAustin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Rohit L D'CostaRoyal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2313-2623

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organ donation after voluntary assisted dying (VAD) is increasingly undertaken in jurisdictions where it is legally permissible, including Australia, although previously all reported cases involved intravenous administration of the life-ending substance. A 55-year-old woman in Victoria has become the first known person to have successfully donated organs and tissues after self-administration of an oral substance, despite initial uncertainty about feasibility due to the unpredictable time to death (agonal phase). With Victorian legislation requiring self-administration as the default, this case provides a precedent, opening the possibility of donation for others in this majority VAD cohort where oral administration is obligatory.

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Suicide, AssistedTissue and Organ ProcurementAdministration, OralFemaleHumansMiddle AgedVictoriadeathethicseuthanasiamotor neuron diseasetissue and organ procurementtransplantation

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PMID42020936
PMCPMC13102989

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