Is it a good idea to harvest the organs of death row inmates?
Turns out China does it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8222732.stm
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In a rare admission of the extent to which this takes place, China Daily - citing unnamed experts - said on Wednesday that more than 65% of organ donations come from death row prisoners.
China executes more people than any other country. Amnesty International said at least 1,718 people were given the death penalty in 2008.
The China Daily quoted Vice-Health Minister Huang Jiefu as saying that condemned prisoners were "definitely not a proper source for organ transplants".
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At any rate, more and more law enforcement is operating as a "for profit" organization, trying to fund its operations with fines and the like which add incentive for law enforcement to operate outside the law to give more citations. There are a plethora of instances of this occurring, it is rampant. For example police targeting speeders entering the city limits in order to fund government operations, and so on. In this case it could also happen, with the organs eventually becoming a profitable exercise, under the guise that we need some revenue from the organs to finance their removal after the death, and it would just escalate from there.
Why would we want to emulate China in about anything??? Their human rights record is atrocious.
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Death row inmates should be STRONGLY encouraged to become organ donors if their organs are healthy enough to be considered for donation.
Maybe encouraged through a better selection of foods to eat or other incentive program from the point at which they decide to become organ donors.
I say encouraged because I do not think that the inmate should be required to become an organ donor after all they are his/her organs.
I can see some folks having problems with one of their loved ones getting a heart from a murderer or rapist etc but the possible organ recipient would, not that I could imagine, ever have a problem with where their life saving new organ(s) came from.
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Maybe encouraged through a better selection of foods to eat or other incentive program from the point at which they decide to become organ donors.
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You get my vote
@buddawiggi, well then you've obviously never seen the Simpsons Tree House of Horror, in which Homer is the recipient of a felon's hair after he goes to the electric chair. The hair transplant then controls Homer's brain to seek revenge for all those who helped convict the felon.
I'm just assuming that's what would happen in every case. Stop avenging felon organs now! Just say no to evil organs! :D
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M$I don't think this is much of an issue in this country. Most would say it's unethical, and many doctors would argue that it's reckless.
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I just watched the video and now this might encourage MORE people to end up on death row so their organs are harvested (I mean technically they'll be dead anyway, so do they still have control over their bodies?)
The video linked actually shows an interested solution to avoiding the harmful chemicals
You might call me crazy but I believe that part of who you are remains on your body after you die.
http://www.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20080423-61402.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-558271/Can-really-transplant-human-soul.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/426766/one_in_ten_transplant_patients_inherit_personalities_of_their_organ/
Dont know about you, but would you want your daughter or son to get a heart transplant from a known murder?
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