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China Plans To End Executed Prisoner Organ Donations Within 5 Years

Posted by timothy on from the have-you-considered-the-patch? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "China said that it planned to end the practice of taking organs from executed prisoners within five years, according to the state media report on Friday. Instead, China's vice minister of health Dr. Huang Jiefu said that the country will rely on a new national donation system for organ transplants at a conference in the city of Hangzhou on Thursday."

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  1. sure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    one of the few things that China did that actually seemed to make sense.

    1. Re:sure... by madmayr · · Score: 5, Insightful

      i know this will get me downmodded - but why is this something that makes sense? imho those organs (which are most likely needed) now just go to waste, because those people will get killed either way

    2. Re:sure... by pankkake · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Me too. Unless they kill prisoners just to get their organs.

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    3. Re:sure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      And here we have a perfect example of a sadist who waits for a moral and legal justification to do what serial killers do.

      Congratulations sir, you are a creepy fuck and I hope I never find myself anywhere near you in real life.

    4. Re:sure... by Ihmhi · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I've actually heard of some people who refuse to be an organ donor in the states on account of the fear of some hospitals or their families being all too ready to pull the plug on them and get those delicious organs. Organ donation is a huge business in any country.

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    5. Re:sure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ignoring your early-onset psychopathy for the moment, I'll just note that the Chinese have a very strong cultural bias in favour of corpses being buried or cremated intact.

      While not as prevalent in recent decaudes, there are still Westerners who also believe that (their) bodies must be buried whole.

      BTW, I hope you're able to find some counseling soon.

  2. News For Nerds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    C'mon timothy. This is ridiculous.

    This story does not belong here.

  3. This word, "donations" by sco08y · · Score: 4, Insightful

    China Plans To End Executed Prisoner Organ Donations Within 5 Years

    This word, "donations", I do not think it means what you think it means.

  4. Re:Honk if you Like Basic Human Rights by walkerp1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who gives a shit? These people were dead anyway. It doesn't matter what happens to their body afterwards

    “How we treat our dead is part of what makes us different than those did the slaughtering.” - Shepherd Book

  5. Re:why ? by kbolino · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem arises when the fact that an executed person's organs can be harvested plays into the calculus of the judge or jury who decides to sentence a person to death. Put another way, if every executed prisoner is a potential source of organs, then you've created a very perverse incentive to execute more prisoners. I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad idea, but you have to be mindful of unintended consequences.

  6. Re:first the shutdown of the banned terms by tragedy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course, the high rates of fungal and bacterial infections in prisoners suggest another ethical problem.

  7. Re:why ? by artor3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People don't oppose taking organs from the executed because of "antiquated religious nonsense". They oppose it because it gives the government a perverse incentive to execute more people.

    If you're on trial, do you really want the judge or jury thinking, even subconsciously, "gee, we could sure use that guy's organs"?

    By the way, in the future you might want to put the tiniest modicum of effort into understanding people's positions before launching into, "hurr hurr religious people are dumb and haven't thought this through."

  8. Re:Five years?! by Beelzebud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're already running a largely for-profit prison system in this country. Forgive me if I don't trust that sort of system with "organ donations". There is already too high of an incentive to jail people for non-violent drug related crimes as it is.

  9. Re:Honk if you Like Basic Human Rights by ZankerH · · Score: 1, Insightful

    While I agree with the death penalty in theory for murder (and only for intentional murder)

    Right, we should kill people who kill people, because killing people is wrong!