Posted on 12/21/2024 12:52:08 AM PST by Morgana
In the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Canada, people who want euthanasia can become organ donors. (A recent report in Spain showed that 13 percent of those euthanized donated organs.) Let’s call it “kill and harvest,” a policy heartily approved by our ever more crassly utilitarian medical establishment.
Indeed, a recent study in JAMA Surgery applauds procuring the kidneys of the euthanized because, after five years, the organs of those killed by doctors and then transplanted have worked well — even better than kidneys donated by people after brain death. From the conclusion of the study, which discusses donation after circulatory death from euthanasia (DCD-V):
This study found that DCD-V kidney transplantation yielded a lower incidence of DGF [delayed graft function] compared with DCD-III kidney transplantation [controlled circulatory death after removing life support] and yielded long-term results similar to those of DCD-III and DBD [donation after brain death] kidney transplantation. The findings suggest that DCD-V is a safe and valuable way to increase the kidney donor pool.
Yes, DCD-V, or kill and harvest, is now its own category in organ-transplant medicine.
This is so disheartening.
Allowing kill and harvest represents to me a collapse in organ-transplant ethics. The dead-donor rule is supposed to prevent people from being killed for their organs. Letting suicidal people who qualify for euthanasia know that they can become organ donors comes perilously close to doing precisely that, and in some cases, donating has been a factor in choosing when to be euthanized. Among the serious problems of this approach:
* People who ask for euthanasia almost never receive suicide-prevention services, and instead, may be contacted by organ-donation organizations asking for their organs. This is a profound failure of true compassion and a form of abandonment, particularly since the ability to donate could become the tipping point on wanting to become dead.
* Perceiving the suicidal who want euthanasia as organ donors can lead to their objectification because obtaining or donating the organs can become the paramount consideration rather than their personal well-being.
* Many, perhaps most, of those killed and harvested are not terminally ill. Some of the mentally ill euthanized in the Netherlands and Belgium (and soon, in Canada) are mentally ill but physically healthy. In other words, the only reason they are dead is they were subjected to voluntary homicide.
* Hospitals are turned into killing centers because the euthanasia followed by harvesting must usually take place in a hospital adjacent to the surgical suite where the organs will be procured.
Where will this go next? Well, why not live harvesting as the means of euthanasia? After all, the patient wants to die and this could lead to even more viable organs! And don’t call me an alarmist. Killing by organ harvesting is already being discussed in organ-transplant medicine and bioethics journals.
If we ever sink to that level of crassness and patient abandonment, I have no doubt a study will one day appear in JAMA Surgery applauding the approach as “a valuable way to increase” the organ pool.
This story is similar to a book written by Kazuo Ishiguro titled “Never Let Me Go”, later the book was turned into a movie with the same title.
It has a similar theme, the harvesting of organs to extend the life of others.
Huxley’s Brave New World.
Now you know what white people are being targeted most for assisted suicide.
More suicides = more organs = more money. No conflict of interest here to see.
why not raise a herd of human beings specifically for organ harvesting
you could have your own private stock of organs
Amazing that self-awareness is absent to the extent that not only do they try to conceal this experience, they actually publish it.
It's a snuff paper. Obscene.
“why not raise a herd of human beings specifically for organ harvesting
you could have your own private stock of organs”
For you MST3K fans there was actually a movie on just that
S08E11 - Parts: The Clonus Horror
It starred one of the Derwoods from Bewitched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6vPfn5b83I
The AMA is often referenced in reports as the voice of physicians. Times have changed. Today, barely 12% of physicians are AMA members.
"The Island"
China has been harvesting organs with “assisted” suicide for decades.
Once again, the democRATS loooove the Chinese way.
thx...
𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴
That was the plot of The Clonus Horror, and The Island. Both adaptations of Robin Cook’s Coma dealt with the a small segment of the medical industry arbitrarily putting people into comas for medical research and organ harvesting.
Well, if these stats are are accurate and still representative...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/792308/number-of-medically-assisted-deaths-canada-by-age/
They’re not gonna get much for geezer organs.
That said, Canada’s Deep State will save a bundle on medical care.
Which makes me wonder if the possibly bogus organ story is to cover that up, that Deep States are saving a bundle killing off their seniors.
Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
Keep in mind that, last I knew, most elderly rack up their highest medical costs in the last year of life.
Makes me wonder- all I know about my liver donor is that he/she was a juvenile.
That’s all I know. I’ve wondered how that unfortunate person died, but I guess I’ll never know.
You don't need a doctor in attendance to commit suicide, so why involve them? Or worse yet, the government.
Like gays, they represent a prominent spokes-group that appears MUCH bigger than it actually is.
However, to the uninformed, putting this scandalous paper in one of their branded journals makes it appear that this is the accepted stance of the American medical establishment.
Which it does not.
Lots of damage done in disguising their craziness as mainstream Marcus Welby, MD, beliefs.
It is a snuff paper, but it’s more than that. It is a comprehensive admission of failure by modern “mental health professionals.”
In serious cases, modern psychologists and psychiatrists apparently are nothing more than quacks. Given the placebo effect, it’s possible that a bottle of the notorious “snake oil” from the traveling salesman might do as much good.
The AMA is reduced to holding the coveted copyright for the codes required for billing physician, diagnostic and most hospital services. It is their extremely lucrative bread and butter, the revenue that keeps them in existence. If the feds decided to mandate a different set of codes, the AMA would be out of business.
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