Posted on 07/28/2012 9:42:26 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Hospitals could be allowed to keep patients with massive brain injuries alive solely to harvest their organs, under controversial plans being floated by the NHS.
The 19 million people on the Organ Donation Register could also be given preference in the event of needing an organ, over those who are not.
These are two of the proposals mooted in a consultation being carried out by NHS Blood and Transplant this summer.
NHSBT is canvassing views from health professionals and the public on these and other ideas in the online survey, which closes on September 21. If put into practice they would represent large-scale changes to the way transplant is undertaken.
The survey asks whether doctors should be able to keep alive patients with catastrophic brain damage, for example due to head injury or stroke, who will not survive, solely for the purpose of organ donation.
Patients approaching death are often put on artificial ventilation for a short period to enable their relatives to say goodbye.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The state does not own you!!
I guess the NHS couldn’t work that nightmare scenario into their dance number at the Olympics last night. That “Dance of Death” would have been really spooky.
” The state does not own you!!”
Might actually depend on what SCJ John Roberts says...
(Not a comforting thought. :~)
The British would be smart to hunt down whoever made these statements and harvest their organs...today or tomorrow.
“The Dosadi Experiment” by Frank Herbert is one step closer to reality.
Remember the chilling novel and film "Coma" from back in the 1970s? Well, it seems as if the British socialists are about to experiment with a real life version of it, or what could morph into one. Sick!!!
And don't think it won't be coming soon to a hospital near you unless Obamacare is repealed.
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
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