Oh, and speaking of organ theft
Mar. 19th, 2006 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oneirophreniaWhy is ANYone surprised that there's a black market in organ sales? Why is ANYbody in the entire fucking world suddenly alarmed and surprised to discover that funeral homes are selling body parts or entire bodies for organ transplants, etc.?
Why is any of this considered BAD in the first place? The number of voluntary organ donors in the world--let alone in our country--cannot posibly meet the need for organs to transplant into patients that need them. So why not carve up bodies for supplies?
Quite frankly, I don't give a flying fuck if the extra kidney in my body keeping me alive came from somebody's dead grandmother by way of a sneaky funeral home that hacked her up for spare parts and threw a bunch of rocks and PVC pipe into the coffin to make everything weight out properly. The dead grandmother wasn't using the kidneys anymore.
As far as I'm concerned, when you're dead, you're dead. You're meat for the dissecting table...and if your parts can help somebody else, then I have no problem whatsoever with the black market body-part market. Hell, I'm a voluntary organ donor, because the only part of me that matters is the brain...and that will, hopefully, be uploaded soon. Once that's done, y'all can do anything you like with the rest of me. I won't be needing it!
Why is any of this considered BAD in the first place? The number of voluntary organ donors in the world--let alone in our country--cannot posibly meet the need for organs to transplant into patients that need them. So why not carve up bodies for supplies?
Quite frankly, I don't give a flying fuck if the extra kidney in my body keeping me alive came from somebody's dead grandmother by way of a sneaky funeral home that hacked her up for spare parts and threw a bunch of rocks and PVC pipe into the coffin to make everything weight out properly. The dead grandmother wasn't using the kidneys anymore.
As far as I'm concerned, when you're dead, you're dead. You're meat for the dissecting table...and if your parts can help somebody else, then I have no problem whatsoever with the black market body-part market. Hell, I'm a voluntary organ donor, because the only part of me that matters is the brain...and that will, hopefully, be uploaded soon. Once that's done, y'all can do anything you like with the rest of me. I won't be needing it!
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Date: 2006-03-19 08:38 pm (UTC)Well, for one thing, organs used for transplant need to be harvested within a certain period of time to be viable, and it seems unlikely that a funeral home would be doing it that quickly. Furthermore, I would have serious questions about the sanitary conditions under which the harvesting is being done. And that's not even touching on the ethical issues (regardless of how you may feel about it, not everyone agrees . . . ).