I have 2 points to make: one will not be controversial here and one will be.
1) I'd be interested in researching the Jewish role in this, because I'm sure historically they've been involved in a lot of these types of dealings: both lower levels of corruption like greasing the wheels of the system and getting sick rich jews up the organ reception list faster than they deserve, or even horrifying things like organizing "non-willing organ donors" to "volunteer" into the organ donor system if you know what I mean.
2) However, I'd like to offer a contrarian viewpoint and suggest that a big part of the reason that there's a problem here is the government has decreed that the price of an organ must be $0. As with any price controls, the predictable results are shortages and black markets. Organ sales should immediately be legalized as a way of solving these kinds of problems. Right now, there's no incentive to become an organ donor other than doing the right thing. Creating some kind of legal market for organs would radically increase the supply and give more sick people a chance at life, and give unfortunate families whose loved ones die a way to at least covering burial costs, and many other advantages. If you own your own body (the state doesn't own you), then you should have an absolute right to make a contract to sell your organs upon your death. I'm open to logical arguments against this practice being legalized as a way to solve this issue, but I can't come up with anything other than "it sounds a tad unseemly".
Sales is a bad way to do it. There was this time in London where universities paid for dead bodies to do public autopsys on. It was illegal to obtain corpses from other sources for some reason or another.
This pay money for dead bodies lead to a problem where some people were outright murdering others to sell the corpse to the universities. They got caught because one of the bodies that turned up was a crippled homeless boy the community knew and liked.
Basically one of those moments of: Hey that's Tiny Tim. Why the fuck is he dead on the table?
There's a reason organs are valued at $0. If there was a legal paid price you'd see more "volunteers".
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cdglow ago
I have 2 points to make: one will not be controversial here and one will be.
1) I'd be interested in researching the Jewish role in this, because I'm sure historically they've been involved in a lot of these types of dealings: both lower levels of corruption like greasing the wheels of the system and getting sick rich jews up the organ reception list faster than they deserve, or even horrifying things like organizing "non-willing organ donors" to "volunteer" into the organ donor system if you know what I mean.
2) However, I'd like to offer a contrarian viewpoint and suggest that a big part of the reason that there's a problem here is the government has decreed that the price of an organ must be $0. As with any price controls, the predictable results are shortages and black markets. Organ sales should immediately be legalized as a way of solving these kinds of problems. Right now, there's no incentive to become an organ donor other than doing the right thing. Creating some kind of legal market for organs would radically increase the supply and give more sick people a chance at life, and give unfortunate families whose loved ones die a way to at least covering burial costs, and many other advantages. If you own your own body (the state doesn't own you), then you should have an absolute right to make a contract to sell your organs upon your death. I'm open to logical arguments against this practice being legalized as a way to solve this issue, but I can't come up with anything other than "it sounds a tad unseemly".
B3bomber ago
Sales is a bad way to do it. There was this time in London where universities paid for dead bodies to do public autopsys on. It was illegal to obtain corpses from other sources for some reason or another.
This pay money for dead bodies lead to a problem where some people were outright murdering others to sell the corpse to the universities. They got caught because one of the bodies that turned up was a crippled homeless boy the community knew and liked.
Basically one of those moments of: Hey that's Tiny Tim. Why the fuck is he dead on the table?
There's a reason organs are valued at $0. If there was a legal paid price you'd see more "volunteers".