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Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, PhD

Father Tad Pacholczyk, PhD earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, MA, and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. For more information, please visit the National Catholic Bioethics Center (www.ncbcenter.org) or FatherTad.com.

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The ethics of suicide and organ donation

By Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, PhD
North Texas Catholic
(May 21, 2026) Making-Sense-Bioethics

Physician-assisted suicide involves asking a medical professional to write a prescription for a toxic drug so that a patient can ingest it and bring his or her own life to an end.  

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