Angus Wanted to Donate His Organs, But They All Went to Waste. His Mother Wants Change

April 25, 2023

(The Age) – The mother of a young man who was critically injured while on holiday in South Korea and later died in Melbourne has called for laws to change to allow organ donation surgery on people whose deaths are imminent. Associate Professor Sally Catt has written to a Victorian parliamentary inquiry asking for the legalisation of organ donation under anaesthesia to prevent organs of registered donors going to waste, as she says was the case with her son, Angus. But some experts believe the change would create an ethical grey area in which the organ removal would be the cause of death, and could put some people off registering as donors. (Read More)