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Ending Organ Donor Shortages?

Posted by michael on from the death-penalty-for-jaywalking dept.

Tracy2112 writes "An interesting and recurring science fiction theme is the idea of black-market traffic in human body parts -- as Larry Niven termed it, "organlegging". According to this USA Today's Op-Ed piece on Yahoo, we're getting closer . . . including LifeSharers.com, , an organization working to sign up "preferred donors" who agree to preferentially donate to other LifeSharer members. Is this a great way to reward people for being generous with their unused body parts -- or a scary flashback to how early 'subscription-only' fire departments worked?"

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  1. Buying organs ? by zymano · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh yeah ,republicans with deep religous beliefs are against it. Isn't that PRO-LIFE stance hipocritical.

  2. Re:The Meaning of Life? by mjphil · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Um... that's "Holy Grail."

  3. Re:Try reconsidering. by FroBugg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There's a very good reason for this: Because far too many selfish fools like you have decided out of paranoia not to donate.

    If a large majority of society became donors, then there wouldn't be the sort of shortages we have to deal with today. Doctors would be able to harvest organs from those patients who are most certainly dead and not have to worry about the questionable cases.