Trillionaire Wood: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/16/pakistan.organ.selling/index.html
Should people be able to sell their organs?
Rice: I believe that you should be able to do what you want to with your body as long as you don’t do harm to others. It is the only thing in this world that is innately yours. No, I don’t believe that people on transplant lists waiting for DONATED organs have rights to your organs unless you say that they do.
Trillionaire Wood: This is touchy for me. Because I want to agree with Jeff. But something seems so wrong about it. But I guess I can say you should be able to sell your organs or give your organs to whoever you want since they are yours. So explain to me the transplant list. You don’t get to specify where your organs go?
Kev: You can specify if you’re Will Smith…
Run-on alert: Should people be allowed to go through extreme guilt and grief after being involved in a car wreck that kills your fiancé and a van full of passengers… and you’re the only survivor… and after a long soul search, come to the conclusion that you’ll impersonate your brother as an IRS worker while traveling the country looking for pure, good people who are in need of your organs… and when you find them, you happen to fall in love with one who happens to be Rosario Dawson… but the fact that she’s in love with you also awakes you to the fact that you can’t be with her… so in the ultimate act of love, you grab your pet jellyfish and put it in the tub, ultimately committing suicide so that your best friend and executor of your estate can distribute your organs properly? Should you be allowed to do that? Hmm?
Edit: Should have said spoiler alert.
Or if you’re Steve Jobs you can pay to move up on the lists… which brings me to this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31509368
C-Mac: First, I think it’s even more tragic that the options were “sell your kidney or your CHILDREN.” And this was actually a choice that people make…
I think that giving one away, you should be allowed to choose the recipient if you wish. If you die in a car crash, then it goes into the donor pool. I’m not one to say that one person’s life is worth more than another’s, but some people’s live are worth more than others. If Steve got a Liver, good for him. I can think of worse things to do with money, since it really does buy everything. If I’m hovering over my dead body in the ER, and I could choose who to give my liver to, would I choose the person who could show their appreciation by giving my surviving family a million dollars? YOU BETCHA.
I also think that everyone should be an organ donor unless they specifically opt out, and need to have bloody good reasons. I think leaving that decision to a family in shock often costs us lots of organs. You really can’t take them with you, and despite people’s idiotic and primitive beliefs, they will rot if they aren’t harvested. If you need them in the afterlife, and God is great and can raise you from the dead, should you need a kidney, I think he can come through on that too. I may write a pro-organ donation song and call it “Kidneys in Heaven.”
Trillionaire Wood: I feel you on that. But I must admit I’m not because it’s been ingrained in me that people won’t save your life if your on death’s door and somebody more important needs that kidney. I know that is probably the most idiotic thing, I have said. But like I said it’s just something that was ingrained in me as a child. Pray I think better on this.
C-Mac: Doctors don’t kill people to get their organs…I refuse to believe that. If I were to believe that, then everything else I believe about going into medicine would fall apart. But beyond that, there are better reasons…the transplant patient isn’t likely to also be a patient of the doctor (though you could make that a rule). Every patient that dies on my watch is on my tab, +1 mortality. Now, I’m expected to have some if I work in ER trauma…I’m not being compared to a dermatologist. But I still want to keep my mortality rate as low as possible.
