[wagglebee]

Elective ventilation was criticised by Professor Nadey Hakim, of Hammersmith Hospital, as "bizarre and unethical". "It's not ethical keeping someone alive," he said. "They're brain dead and you have to remember there's a family next door in tears. I find it bizarre that the BMA wants to push for something so unpopular. This is how we kill any desire for people to become donors."

And the solution will be to make donation mandatory.

The "Brave New World" is here and it's horrifying.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Among the measures it proposes are:

[List of useless, outrageous and shameful ideas deleted...]

More interesting are the ideas it doesn't propose, such as encouraging or funding massive research into cloning organs and other body parts for transplant. Innovation requires risk-taking, and that's anathema to government-controlled medicine, which is all about maintaining the status quo while making useless token gestures to control costs as they spiral out of sight.

[NYer]

Among the measures it proposes are:

What??? No utilizing organs from condemned criminals?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s ain’t about anything but the $$$$s.

[Tucker39]

Dr. Walter E. Williams said it best while subbing for El Rushbo one day. The organ shortage will be solved when a person or their designated executors are allowed to SELL THEIR OWN organs.

The idea that people are supposed to DONATE organs for free, while the surgeon makes $50K a pop and more, never made sense to me.

[NonValueAdded]

And you [rhetorical] thought "we're here for your liver" was just a comedy sketch.

[Sine_Pari]

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The best response to “forced” organ donation is that there is a long list of diseases and conditions that make organs unacceptable for donation. And if someone is suspected of having such a disease or condition, there are tests to determine if they have it.

If the test is positive, no “what passes for ethical these days” surgeon will touch it.

But in many, if not all such tests, harmless “simulants” also exist that can give them a false positive.

So if someone carries a card indicating that they have one of the proscribed diseases or conditions, and they consume the proper simulant, this would give them an extra measure of protection against organ snatching.

[prairiebreeze]

•Using body parts from high-risk donors including the elderly, people with cancer, drug users and people with high-risk sexual behaviour.

It's all horrific, but I was especially drawn to the high-risk sexual behavior classification. Prostitutes and gays. But what about the HIV status? What good does it do you to get a new liver from a whore just to find out she/he's got HIV??

I suppose they say they'd test for that first.

[redgolum]

I have met those who used to work on the “retrieval” side of organ donation. Things like this go on now. I will not sign an organ donor card for that reason.

[Pilsner]

British doctors endorse radical solutions to organ shortage

Live organ donation. Worse than a møøse bite.

[Pilsner]

British doctors endorse radical solutions to organ shortage

Live organ donation. Worse than a møøse bite.