I’d like my new liver now, please.
It might even work better if they didn’t have to wait for people to die to remove their organs.
Soylent Green... Is PEOPLE!!!
Next of kin might be convinced to let the doctors take a part here and there, but how many are going to consent to feeding their loved one’s body into an industrial process in a faraway city? What do you bury? A receipt?
In order for this scheme to work, the opinion of the next of kin must not matter. This is a decision the State would make for its own convenience and efficiency.
Maybe we could just declare Detroit as organ retrieval center.
So who pays for this incredible expense?
Once someone is declared dead, even the best insurance stops paying at the declaration of death.
We have heard of stories where the bodies are kept viable for organ donation for days, and the dead donor’s estate or family is billed for the expensive process.