The only episode if Max Headroom I ever watched was about the organs of "homeless people" being harvested to provide transplants needed by the rich & powerful.
Posted on 12/19/2014 6:06:30 AM PST by xzins
I warned this would happen back in my first anti-assisted suicide article–Newsweek, June 28, 1993–in which I wrote:
"Of greater concern to me is the moral trickledown effect that could result should society ever come to agree with Frances [to legalize assisted suicide].
"Life is action and reaction, the proverbial pebble thrown into the pond. We don’t get to the Brave New World in one giant leap. Rather, the descent to depravity is reached by small steps. First, suicide is promoted as a virtue. Vulnerable people like Frances become early casualties. Then follows mercy killing of the terminally ill. From there, it’s a hop, skip and a jump to killing people who don’t have a good “quality” of life, perhaps with the prospect of organ harvesting thrown in as a plum to society."
As I have covered here, Belgium doctors now harvest the disabled and mentally ill who ask to be euthanized. The Netherlands is drawing up regulations to do the same.
Switzerland law allows suicide clinics to which people fly from all over the world to be made dead. Now, a Brit bioethicist–and organ ethicist!–named David Shaw sees these suicidal people who live in or travel to Switzerland as splendid sources of organs. From the SwissInfo.ch story:
"D.S.: I’ll just say upfront I’m not saying that we should be killing people to take their organs. But Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where several hundred people use assisted suicide every year. This is a situation where you have people who want to die, you know when they’re going to die, and many of them are probably registered organ donors.
"So it’s also more respectful to the people to let them do this final kind of parting gift to humanity.
"The trouble when you have an idea like this is that some people might get a hold of it and say, ‘These crazy ethicists. They want to kill everyone and take their organs out.’ Not the case at all. I’m just saying, people are dying because we don’t have enough organs.
"There are also ethical objections, that more people will choose assisted suicide because they think that they can save other people’s lives and they feel they’re a burden. The burden argument is used a lot in assisted suicide debates, and it’s not really very convincing. The bioethics literature is quite clear on that."
None of us should give a fig about the opinions expressed in “bioethics literature:” Like I say in Culture of Death, bioethics has become an orthodoxy, perhaps even, an ideology. But we don’t have to succumb to “expertitis.” We don’t have to allow those with views fundamentally different than most of the people (I hope) to control our health policies.
Where are organ professional organizations condemning harvesting the suicidal? As far as I can tell, they are silent! That too will undermine our trust in the sector.
I can think of nothing more dangerous than for vulnerable and despairing people to believe their deaths have greater value than their lives. Well, perhaps one thing: When their own society believes the same.
We are going to hell, whether metaphorical or literal, take your pick.
LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a bioethics attorney who blogs at Human Exeptionalism.
The elite want you to be a serf, with serf wages and serf prospects. Our ubermench truly ‘want your heart’.
And your liver, and your kidneys, and your eyes.
Bought and paid for by government but assigned to the cronies....eventually.
Will there be an Organ Harvest Festival?
...after the organs, it’s not a far stretch to the green cracker.
We’ll call it Kwanza. There’s a festival looking for a purpose.
Someday American democrats will probably harvest more than votes from their plantations.
The activist should donate one of his kidneys now, to demonstrate how it’s done.
LOL. If he talks the talk, then walk the walk.
Drudge reported that ISIS is doing the same in Syria.
There won't be any demand for my organs, particularly my liver. Four years of active college life, followed by four years in Germany probably took it's toll. And I almost forgot about exposure to Mad Cow disease. Lol
Why wait?
Robin Cook’s book, Coma, deals with a similar situation.....but, in his book, young, healthy people, going in for routine surgeries, are put into an irreversible coma and then kept alive at a medical ‘warehouse’ until their organs can be used. I’m sure Dr Cook never thought this sort of thing would actually happen. But, back in the 70’s, life was still more precious than nowadays.
The only episode if Max Headroom I ever watched was about the organs of "homeless people" being harvested to provide transplants needed by the rich & powerful.
Remember the novel/movie “Coma”?
Dr. Thorne Says Activists Should Be Euthanized to Harvest Their Organs
Larry Niven, call your office.
Or the harvesting of donor organs from those who aren't quite done using them yet (see: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.)
maybe even a whole class of people raised on government facilities to be organ donors.
Here they could just hide the waiver language in Section 8 apartment lease documents.
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