Imagine the assaults this is going to cause, when these people come to the door within 20 minutes of a family members death.
Ah yes, I can see the t.v. “public service “ messages now...
“Doing CPR is stealing an organ from someone who needs it”
“No organs to donate? We accept watches, jewelry and gold teeth”
“Save a life! Die!”
Sort of like the Welcome Wagon, but they want stuff so you meet them at the door with a shotgun.
This must be a joke. If it is not a joke then one more step has been taken towards considering people things, objects, non-humans.
Is this the one about waking up in a bathtub full of ice?
Can’t quite decide if Monty Python’s gone rogue to the dark side, or if those “indigenous” Day Of The Dead harvest festivals were all rather prescient.
Does no one see a conflict of interest, here, seriously? A lot of people are going to refuse listing themselves as organ donors, what with these Frankenwagens rolling around butchering a sudden surfeit of clinically dead.
It’s a very real fear, that medical treatment will be (whoops!) insufficient to “save” the person, but quite sufficient to “save” organs.
The profits must be tremendous to engage in such ghoulishness.
This is the creepiest thing I have read in a while. Who determines if this death was “natural”? No autopsy has been performed as of yet. Where is the medical examiner to certify that a person is truly deceased. (that is what is required where I live). Does the family clean up the tissue and blood? This is just way too out there for my tastes. Just a thought.
I am a designated organ donor and a former ambulance medic so I see this idea from two positions. While I am in favor of increasing organ donation, I find it a little ghoulish to immediately approach a family who has just lost their loved one for an organ donation hardly before the body is cold. I have been at many in home deaths in more than 20 years as a medic and can tell you the family is generally numb especially if the death was unexpected. I can’t imagine going to a family who has just lost their Dad or Mom from an unexpected massive heart attack and asking them to cart off the body for quick organ donation especially after they have just minutes before witnessed medics feverishly working to save their life. They haven’t had time to even grasp their loved one’s death let alone make such a decision.
If people gave the gift of life (organ donor) house calls wouldn’t be needed.I can’t understand why people want to keep body parts when they get put in the hole to become worm food,give it up you can’t use it.
Were you out-scooped here?
:-)