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Elective ventilation was criticised by Professor Nadey Hakim, of Hammersmith Hospital, as "bizarre and unethical". "It's not ethical keeping someone alive," he said. "They're brain dead and you have to remember there's a family next door in tears. I find it bizarre that the BMA wants to push for something so unpopular. This is how we kill any desire for people to become donors."

And the solution will be to make donation mandatory.

The "Brave New World" is here and it's horrifying.

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“Among the measures it proposes are:

•Elective ventilation: keeping patients alive solely so they can become organ donors,
•Retrieving hearts from newborn disabled babies,
•Using body parts from high-risk donors including the elderly, people with cancer, drug users and people with high-risk sexual behaviour.”

If this were the plot outline for a horror movie, the critics would be laughing at the absurdity.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

A Modest Proposal.

[peggybac]

OMG. How scary. And people snub their noses at me when I tell them NO WAY IN HELL would I sign my name on my driver’s license or put in my will that I want to be an organ donor.

[Ken522]

Next thing they will be “suggesting” that organs be retrieved from living prisoners, starting with people on death row ... with the application of pressure and sufficient time, all convicted felons will be candidates for “ventilation!”

[onyx]

Dear God, wagglebee, I was afraid to read he article and I was right.

[little jeremiah]

But I expect that views will gradually change.”

The horrible evils are accelerating.

[exDemMom]

A careful explanation of the way in which death is diagnosed will be needed and an explanation that a heart that has stopped beating can be restarted after the person has died and used for transplantation.

That begs the question of why the heart isn't restarted while it is in its owner's chest, instead of removing it to restart it in someone else's chest.

I still fail to see the rationale behind organ transplantation. When a person is so ill that their organs are failing, perhaps it's time for them to say goodbye, instead of hoping and praying for a healthy person to die so they can get the organs? As immoral as it is merely to hope for another person to die, isn't it far worse to hasten another person's death in order to harvest their organs?

[the invisib1e hand]

Paging Dr. Mengele.

[gusty]

These are the end times for Dewey Crowe.

[JoeFromSidney]

Larry Niven wrote a number of science fiction stories about a future in which prisoners were used for organ donation. In order to assure a sufficient supply of organs, the number of crimes was increased. Of course, this was only science fiction. Nothing like that could ever happen. Could it?

[madison10]

GAH! That’s utterly disgusting! I don’t want to be a half-deady with my body being harvested for parts because I marked “organ donor” on my driver’s license.

[katana]

The Monty Python crew saw this coming in their Meaning of Life.

If you've got a strong stomach here's the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aclS1pGHp8o

[tophat9000]

We keep you alive to serve the State...we will say when your dead to serve the State...your body your organs your labor you sole is owned by the State........The answer to the riddle What is "LEFT" ...in the end

[353FMG]

> •making donation after cardiac death a normal source for organs<

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As long as donations are post-death and remain voluntary, but don’t expect it to continue that way.

Someday the elite will demand organ donations from the the not-so-elites.

[sten]

of course this is coming. you’d be a fool to think it’s not

[Atlas Sneezed]

End the prohibition on compensating individuals and their heirs for organs, and the shortage vanishes.