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I sympathize with your perspective. I think I might trust many of them to do the right thing from my view. But we have experienced some unnerving stuff.

Our extremely handicapped son was under hospital care for awhile, and one day we found him suffering in agony. We had to seek out why. They had used him as a practice for a student dentist to fill some cavities. (His teeth were sound anyway). We asked why our son was so stressed and what kind of Novocain treatment they used. Oh, they explained, they couldn't use Novocain because that would be too much of a risk. They used nothing at all. Practical. Consideration of his pain and suffering, not practical.

So I wonder if I am laying in a hospital bed, OK, but having some usable parts, will I draw the same luck, especially if someone nearby needs one of my usable parts? What would they use to ease the pain as they sawed out my giblets? If they used painkillers, it may damage my spare parts. If they waited until I were out of it, my parts may spoil. Practical is to just hold me down, carve out the right pieces, and shut me up. Practical.

Remember that the first action when I was taken to a local hospital was that they shoved a living will in my face. I shoved it right back and quickly.

Do some hospitals harvest organs more than others? That would be an interesting study.