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  1. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Geert Meyfroidt

  2. Foundation VZW Bas, een stoere strijder, Bretheistraat 78, 3600, Genk, Belgium

    Ann Baptist

  3. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Fabio Silvio Taccone

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GM is the president of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine. GM is an associate editor of Intensive Care Medicine. AB is the mother of Bas, who deceased at the age of 11 following the complications of a heart transplantation, and became an organ donor afterwards. FST is a board member of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

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Meyfroidt, G., Baptist, A. & Taccone, F.S. Fake news on euthanasia and organ donation. Intensive Care Med 46, 564–565 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05830-8

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