In Canada, the average waiting time to obtain an organ transplant is around four years. This long waiting list is due to the lack of consenting donors. However, hundreds of these people that have passed away could have been a potential donor, but they did not give their consent. Consequently, more than 230 patients die every year while waiting for an organ (CIHI). This situation raises a particular question: Should a surgeon extract organs from an unwilling dead donor to give it to a person in need? Both ethical rationalism and utilitarianism provide an answer to this question, but…