Great Britain: Organs to be taken without consent (PM Brown favors "presumed consent" )

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | January 12, 2008 | Patrick Hennessy and Laura Donnelly

[Stoat]

Hospitals will be rated for the number of deceased patients they "convert" into donors

Wow.

• But Chris Rudge, of UK Transplant, the authority in charge of organ donation and transplant, insisted patients would not be considered as donors at any point where survival was possible.

How incredibly gracious of them.

 

[SolidWood]

That’s the merit of Euro-healthcare... LOL.

[Continental Soldier]

What the hell ever happened to England? Every time I read a posted story from England, I am amazed that this is the country that I thought I knew so well, but now don’t know at all.

[SeafoodGumbo]

How scary is it that they would rather go this route instead of having a public information campaign on being a donor. Instead of even trying the non-totalitarian route first, they go straight to the STATE KNOWS mode as their default.

Double ungood.

[Stoat]

What the hell ever happened to England?

Simply put, Socialism.

It's a cancer that destroys humanity and devalues the sanctity of life at every possible opportunity.

[pogo101]

"So. Can we 'ave your liver then?"

[Traveler59]

Socialized medicine at it's finest.

Does the phrase "we will take from you for the greater good." sound familiar?

-Traveler

[Diogenesis]

[Max in Utah]

What happens when the medical schools need more cadavers, will the government just take your carcass? I think they're pushing imminent domain a little far.

"We OWN you!" --British government

PS-- we're next if we don't stand up to the statists.

[RichInOC]

You can have my organ when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[darkangel82]

Double-plus-ungood.

[Stoat]

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[longtermmemmory]

Having personally seen the ghouls in the hospitals of the USA, it is going to be a nightmare in england.

[SeafoodGumbo]

Double-plus-ungood.

That too.

[wagglebee]

Pro-Life Ping to Stoat’s thread on organ harvesting in the UK.

[longtermmemmory]

they will make that happen.

(especially if it costs too much to save you then you have a duty to die)

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[Max in Utah]

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[billorites]

Now if people could only sell their own organs then the market would take care of this.

Elderly people are able to obtain "reverse mortgages" and so realize during their lifetimes the equity in their homes.

Why not be able to sell your kidneys in advance at a price discounted to your current age?

[live+let_live]

You people are all worried for nothing.

They will only take the organs of people who are certain to EVENTUALLY die anyway! :)