Then what? Soylent Green?
The NHS treats people like crop....whats new
Too bad they didn’t have a bunch of brain-dead patients in those giant government hospitals during the Olympic opening. Instead of bouncing kids, they could have had the nurses playing catch with hearts, livers, kidneys and lungs.
"Hello...uhh...can we have your liver?" "What?" "Your liver...ahhh...it's a large...aaah...glandular organ in your ab-do-men."
Wow, that could have made an interesting act for the Olympic opening ceremonies
Robin Cook based his book Coma on the article, and the resulting movie gave Tom Selleck his first shot at stardom.
This has been around a while.
I smell big money.
Back in the 90s while developing software for blood banking, I was surprised to discover that it was not uncommon to administer blood transfusions to dead patients. If a patient is brain dead (IOW would not survive unaided for more than a few minutes), they would keep them on life support until their organs could be harvested. It was usually only a day or two and the goal was to ensure that the organs would be viable.
If NHS should run out of brain-dead patients, we would graciously welcome them to our Democrats.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/movies/15never.html?pagewanted=all
`Never Let Me Go.’ Cutting through all the bollocks, in this dystopian novel the average life span is 100 because children are raised to serve as organ donors for ailing Brits.
We should have worked NHS organ harvesting into the Olympic opening somehow.
I read the article and did not see one mention of the term - “at the family’s request”. Therefore I conclude the State would decide and carry out this “harvesting” and “cannibalization” independent of the family’s wishes.
How insulting!
“.....at a cost of accepting lower quality organs from older, fatter people...”
ACTUALLY, us “Older, Fatter” people supply very HIGH QUALITY organs!
Just think on it ...
1. our organs are very well nutritioned, and
2. our organs are very well protected...
all this extra quality is provided by the very extra layers of “fat” the article objects to.
Is there a Trades Libel solicitor in the house?
Just another reason why I’m not an organ donor.
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.