[markomalley]

This is some sick stuff, folks. But the culture of death is coming down to that. When you start putting conditions on the absolute value of human life, there's no stopping which conditions will be applied.

[markomalley]

You two might be interested in this for your ping list

[markomalley]

If anybody's interested, the authors advanced the following idea a couple of years ago: Death Fiction and Taking Organs from the Living:

But there is another more radical way to increase the supply of organs. We could abandon the dead donor rule. We could for example, allow organs to be taken from people who are not brain dead, but who have suffered such severe injury that they would be permanently unconscious, like Terry Schiavo, who would be allowed to die anyway by removal of their medical treatment.

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More on this article here:

Wesley J. Smith: Euthanizing Patients for Organs Advocated in "Bioethics"

 

Wesley J. Smith: Belgian Doctors Euthanized Disabled Patient and Harvested Her Organs

[Lion Den Dan]

The only ones needing to be put down are the sick Romanian bastards who posit this dung.

[Diogenesis]

[ConorMacNessa]

The Culture of Death advances apace.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Depends. For Democrat politicians, DEFINITELY!

[silverleaf]

So liberal logic is that organs that die with their owners go to “waste”, but fetal lives that are snuffed by chioce are discarded tissue

Seems to me “choice” is “choice” when it comes to who does what with an individual’s body

[Travis McGee]

Why don’t we just outsource organs to communist China?

They’ll just shoot a political prisoner in the head on demand.

[backhoe]

[concerned about politics]

There has got to be a young entrepreneur out there who could come up with an idea that would allow us to render our organs unusable after death. Something that can be taken by a person who knows they're going to be leaving this world no matter what within months.
That inventive person would become a millionaire overnight. (I'll have to check my really old herbal books to see what I can find.)

[The King of Elflands Daughter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jigsaw_Man

[CaptainAmiigaf]

The justification for this point of view is nothing new. It surfaced on a grand scale at certain “Medical Labs” in Europe. They were located at places like Ravensbruk, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Terezan, and many, many others. Personally I’d believed that those people had (happily) left this earth. Guess not.

[Vaquero]

[Global2010]

Answer to Title of Article.

A resounding NO!

[camle]

maybe we should start thinking of patients as patients rather than potential orgen sources?

that said, I have no objections to decisions best left between families and physicians.

[Haiku Guy]

Gee, that didn’t take long... Obamacare passed in, what, March? And already we’re talking about snuffin’ Grandma and stealing her kindneys.

The decision to withdraw care will no longer be voluntary under Obamacare. So the government will get to decide who dies and who gets the organs.

In five years time, our politicians will no longer be visiting our veterans hospitals to cheer up the patients, but will instead visit to window-shop...

[Haiku Guy]

Good Morning, Miss Jones!
You have visitors today!
So roll over, please...

Check out those kidneys!
Didn’t I say they were fresh?
You should see her heart!

I can let you have
The whole package for Ten Grand...
Not a penny less!

So, thank you Miss Jones!
We’re gonna let you rest now...
Try to stay healthy!

[Sgt_Schultze]

There wouldn't be a shortage of organs if one could consider them as part of an estate and sell them. Right now, everybody involved in organ transplantation, from retrieval, to transportation, to surgeons to hospital are paid for their services. The only party forbidden from taking compensation is the source of the raw materials.

How nice would it be for a grieving widowed wife to be able to sell her dead husband's body parts for the benefit of his family? Who owns me anyway?