This story is very interesting–”Doctor charged with hastening death of donor.” When I read the headline I thought–see, this is why I’m not an organ donor–I don’t want doctors profiting on my organs when I can’t. But reading the actual story the situation is more complex than merely speeding up death to harvest the organs. According to the story:

Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 33, prescribed excessive amounts of morphine and Ativan and injected the topical antiseptic Betadine into Ruben Navarro’s stomach in February 2006, prosecutors in San Luis Obispo County said. Navarro, 26, who was severely disabled mentally and physically, had suffered respiratory and cardiac arrest and had been taken off life support, authorities said.

That puts the story in a completely different light. I’m all for massive doses to morphine to end my life after I have been taken off life support. I don’t see the need to linger around when death is near.