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"The danger in our state is that YOU or your estate will be CHARGED to remove your organs if the donee has not the funds or refuses to pay for the organ transplant. Which vindicates the proverb "no good deed goes unpunished"."

Unmitigated claptrap. You will not be charged.

"You are close, but another side is that your organs will be sold at a huge profit by those who convinced you to donate to a worthy cause. I once was a big proponent of this practice till I saw that some of the organ handlers were the same as those selling baby parts."

Selling organs is a violation of federal law.

The paranoia I am reading here, with the deadly consequences for those awaiting transplants, is just sickening.

For further reading:

A couple of my wife's blog posts:

Organ Donation More on organ donation

Miscellaneous:

Carolina Donor Services

Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation

United Network for Organ Sharing

Upstate New York Transplant Services

62 posted on 08/26/2006 10:29:16 AM PDT by Obi-Wandreas (Dedicated to the shameless pursuit of silliness)

To: Obi-Wandreas

Great job Obi-Wan!

I knew this thread was crap, but I didn't have the info handy.

78 posted on 08/26/2006 10:42:55 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (I LIKE you! When I am Ruler of Earth, yours will be a quick and painless death)

To: Obi-Wandreas

"Unmitigated claptrap. You will not be charged."

See post 69 to mineral man.

80 posted on 08/26/2006 10:44:53 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)

To: Obi-Wandreas

Unmitigated claptrap. You will not be charged.

Bullsqueeze. Doctors attempted to charge us for donations from my Grandmother's body until we pitched a stink about it.

98 posted on 08/26/2006 10:57:43 AM PDT by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)

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