The Convenient Death

National Review Online ^ | October 06, 2009 | The Editors

[neverdem]

Since people can pass those tests without, in the editors’ view, “being alive in any meaningful sense,” and since those people can be sources of working organs, the editorial proposes changing the definition. It does not specify what the new definition should be...

These ghouls are putting the cart before the horse.

[GeronL]

Any donor organ shortage is wholly artifical and created by government.

[grey_whiskers]

Since, by *any* criterion (including brain death), the MSM are dead...

Jim, when do you get to move into the networks' LA offices?

And who gets the New York Times facilities?

Cheers!

[Steely Tom]

The Purpose-Driven Death.

[Crim]

“Hi..were here from the Office of human organ resouces”...

“congratulations!”... “

“Through a review of your electronic medical records, We’ve determined you are a matched doner for a rich fat democrat who desparately needs your liver.....”

“you have ten minutes to put your affairs in order and come with us...”

“please dont make a seen in front of your family...or they will be detained, declared dead, and processed for random organ donation as well...”

[Tennessee Nana]

Well that wont be Grandma with her old worn organs...

Sommeone younger...Barry’s age...

[Ronin]

Once again science fiction proves prophetic.

Does anyone else remember the movie “Coma”?

[LearsFool]

The editorial asserts that current law misunderstands death as an event rather than a process

That's because the rest of us live in the real world, rather than manufacturing our own within darwinian-infested, sociopathic laboratories.

[count-your-change]

It’s pretty easy to guess what the definition will be:
“We want the organs, therefore the donor (no longer a human or person, just a donor) is kaput!.”

These ghouls are putting the cart before the horse.

But not before gutting the horse for parts.

[kaehurowing]

This will be part of your end-of-life care plan under Obamacare.

[Iron Munro]

[Steely Tom]

It’s pretty easy to guess what the definition will be: “We want the organs, therefore the donor (no longer a human or person, just a donor) is kaput!.”

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

[kaehurowing]

“These ghouls are putting the cart before the horse.”

Bring out yer dead!

Bring out yer dead!

[Rembrandt]

This is old news. The ChiCom govt has been doing this for some years using prisoners and political dissidents; just go to sleep and we’ll fix that tooth - it will never bother you again.

Herro, yes we haf new liver for you - onry $80,000. Hurry to come here.

[count-your-change]

Remember when this was said of abortion?

“The deeper flaw with the proposal is that it is grossly immoral, an attempt to legitimize the killing of vulnerable people while pretending something else is being done. Further evils would come in its train.”

[victim soul]

Awesome “cartoon”

[freekitty]

OMG, this makes me sick.

[count-your-change]

Well, I need all my abilities and more. so I’m doing my best to make sure no one really wants my organs, too much rust and rot to be recycled.

[Liberty1970]

When I was a young child (and reading way over my head), I recall a short story in a science fiction anthology. The plot revolved around a young man making a futile attempt to escape prison - making his way through the organ harvesting facility next door.

In the end he is recaptured and brought in for sentencing. For his crimes of repeatedly speeding and running traffic lights he is convicted, and sent off to said organ harvesting facility. It turns out that organ transplants could theoretically keep people alive 'forever' - provided there was a sufficient supply of them... thus the public repeatedly and inexorably voted for changes in the law to, uhmm, ensure an adequate supply.

I could be wrong, but I'm thinking the author is Larry Niven, if someone wanted to look it up.

[MarkL]

They can have my organs when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers!

Oops...

Mark