It’s dark, yes. It is one of the reasons I have decided not to leave written consent to donate organs. The stories I have heard about harvesting are gruesome. I know it would be generous to a recipient were I to meet a sudden fate, but I fear that the very people who have sworn to try to save my life in a crisis would switch to butchering me if they saw my consent on my drivers license. I place trust like that in the hands of very few people these days. I am afraid that the number of those who have sold their souls is higher than we know.
I wouldn’t want to leave written consent either. There are unethical doctors who would choose $$ they would receive over my life.
I took a couple of college courses with a young man who claimed to have worked at one of the organ procurement facilities back in 1992. Said he went into the job with the best of intentions, thinking how noble it was to be saving other’s lives and all the typical BS.
Six months later he abruptly quit. Said he could no longer take how his fellow employees treated the dead ‘donors’. “Far worse than a piece of meat or even a dead dog” were some of his words. Told a couple stories that would make a ghoul blanch. Said when the nightmares started he knew he had had enough.
I changed my donation status later that week.