[Zakeet]

The show is meant to highlight the acute shortage of [kidney] donors.

The show is really meant to generate profits for the "Dutch entertainment power-house."

[Slings and Arrows]

Please excuse me while I get my .38 and do an Elvis on my TV.

[CarrotAndStick]

In the Netherlands organ transplants are bound to strict rules. People are not allowed to choose [to] who[m] their organs will go to after they die.

Hmm...

[freekitty]

Can people get any sicker?

[Zakeet]

The nice lawyer defendants help their clients collect
Social Security disability payments. You can read
more about them here.

[knighthawk]

Dutch organ donor show is hoax

A controversial TV reality show purporting to feature a dying woman deciding who was to receive one of her kidneys has just revealed it was a hoax. The show had sparked intense controversy because the three patients were allegedly competing against each other. The programme makers, who previously produced the landmark reality show “Big Brother”, say they want to highlight the shortage of organ donors in the hope more will come forward

Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende had condemned the programme, fearing it will harm the country’s image abroad. The health and media ministers also criticised the show but have refused to ban it saying that would amount to censorship.

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/#5297826