Ending Organ Donor Shortages?

Posted by michael on Saturday July 26, 2003 @09:00AM 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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Re:Executions... by Scrooge919 · 2003-07-26 09:15 · Score: 0, Troll

I guess we just need to bring back public hangings. Hell, they could broadcast them on tv and, with the money they'd make from selling ads, cover the cost of harvesting the organs afterward...