Posted on 08/30/2013 3:16:41 PM PDT by NYer
It’s sackcloth and ashes time.
Belgium is really gearing up its euthanasia followed by organ harvesting regime–and apparently the transplant medical community has no moral qualms. In fact, it has become so morally ho-hum, that it was the subject of discussion at the 21st European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery held in the UK in May.
It’s all just peachy keen. From the Abstract (0-099) of “Lung Transplantation with Grafts Recovered From Euthanasia Donors:
January 2007 and December 2012, 47/350 (13.4%) patients received pulmonary grafts from controlled DCDs [donation after cardiac death], including 6 (1.7%) after euthanasia in accordance with state legislation and approval by Ethics Committee. Patients suffered from an unbearable neuromuscular (n = 3) or neuropsychiatric (n = 3) disorder with explicit wish to donate organs. Euthanasia was executed by an independent physician in a room adjacent to the operating room in the absence of the retrieval team.
Did you get that? One set of doctors killed the patient, stepped out of the room, and another set of doctors entered for the harvest.
Now, the hunt is on for mentally ill and patients with disabling conditions such as MS to become “euthanasia organ donors.”
Euthanasia donors accounted for 12.8% of all lung DCDs. Immediate post-transplant graft function and long-term outcome in recipients was excellent. More euthanasia donors are to be expected with more public awareness.
In a better world, increased public awareness would cause universal public revulsion.
I can think of nothing more dangerous than making mentally ill and despairing disabled people believe their deaths have greater value than their lives. Well one thing, perhaps: Having a society accept the idea that it can benefit at the expense of people in desperate need of care–and whose care is very expensive.
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The articles says these poor unfortunates with mental or physical disabilities would be killed if they have "with explicit wish to donate organs". There's a difference between offering to donate organs after a natural death and volunteering to be killed. At this point, anyone willng to donate organs may also be volunteering to be killed for their organs.
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You’ll love this: http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/10576
First-world problems 1: Belgian euthanasia doctors underpaid
The fast way to bring this situation to a head is to create an otherwise harmless injection that would create the illusion that the incapacitated person had a disease that would make their organs unsuitable for transplant.
Importantly, the way infections are often determined is not by finding a pathogen, but by finding antibodies to that pathogen. Thus if someone is given a harmless injection of antibodies, subsequent tests would put them on the “no transplant donor” list.
Ideally, an “inside person” would say, systematically inoculate dozens of people, then plant evidence that there had been an outbreak of a known communicable disease at their medical facility.
That’s only approved for China by our business, academic and political leaders.
Anyone know where these Belgians were a few days ago when a Chinese child lost his eyes for their corneas? They had better have alibis.
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Have no fear. There will be “panels of professionals” that will make scientific, medical and economic benefit analyses with the best interests of the collective in mind.
Could be a real b!tch if you tick off the wrong people .... you might get called in for an analysis.
What the heck? If you can murder babies, why not old people, too?
Ghouls.
The deathers love the world’s dark history and fight for the power to repeat it.
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