For some, the idea of putting animal parts into humans is creepy. Others aren’t convinced the brain\u002Ddead are truly deceased
U.S. scientists create human-pig chimera embryos to grow human cells: 'This required a tour de force'
Brief experiments — a few hours to a few days — on a decedent can be ethically permissible, the working group said, provided the same procedures and processes used for organ donation are followed for whole body donation. Such experiments would need the “express and informed” consent by legally authorized decision-makers, meaning, in most cases, a family member.Article content
University of Toronto ethicist Kerry Bowman finds it all ethically problematic. “If the public gets the impression that organ donation could lead to something like this, people may find this very disturbing.”Article content Bowman isn’t so convinced. “I think there is a world of difference between anyone saying, ‘I want to be an organ donor and, by the way, I’m also willing, for a couple of days after a partial death, or complete death to be attached to a pig kidney, experimentally.’ Those are not the same thing.”Article content
“Some people would say this is as disrespectful of the dead as anything can be and others would say it’s not,” Bowman said. “I think the yuck factor — I’m using a very unscientific term here — would be quite high with the public.” He also found the 54 hours of experiment time somewhat “ghoulish.” It’s further complicated by what he sees as the commodification of animals. Xenotransplantation is advancing at a time when society’s attitudes towards nonhuman life are in radical transition, he said.
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