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08-21-2007, 09:00 PM
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Re: Everybody should give away their organs upon death
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Governments should not prohibit markets for human organs. Problem solved. [/ QUOTE ] Doesn't the supply bottleneck open up a bunch of ethical problems here? Example, an alcoholic goes to the doctor and is told he has moderate/severe liver cirrhosis and must never drink again. This man is a billionaire and would never give up his habit so he simply purchases a replacement liver. A middle class child dies of hepatic failure because his family cannot afford the market price for a liver. 
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#4
08-21-2007, 09:03 PM
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Re: Everybody should give away their organs upon death
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[ QUOTE ] Governments should not prohibit markets for human organs. Problem solved. [/ QUOTE ] Doesn't the supply bottleneck open up a bunch of ethical problems here? Example, an alcoholic goes to the doctor and is told he has moderate/severe liver cirrhosis and must never drink again. This man is a billionaire and would never give up his habit so he simply purchases a replacement liver. A middle class child dies of hepatic failure because his family cannot afford the market price for a liver. [/ QUOTE ] There is no supply bottleneck, except the one created by government (that's what you get when you outlaw a market). And yes, it creates terrible "ethical problems".
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#5
08-21-2007, 09:16 PM
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Re: Everybody should give away their organs upon death
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unless they otherwise agree that they don't want any organs to be donated to them incase of an accident. Thoughts? [/ QUOTE ] Personally, I tend to agree with this idea. It is not fair to get something if you are no willing to give. In the case of death, they extract the organs so that open casket funerals are possible, so i really do not see the problem with organ donation and do not understand why people are against donation. Any thoughts?
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#6
08-21-2007, 09:26 PM
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Re: Everybody should give away their organs upon death
I don't like it, for the simple reason that you're making my body "default government property" unless I go out of my way to do something about it. Boro has the right idea, as usual -- simply get governments out of regulating/outlawing this stuff and the problem goes away. No need to invoke heavy handed government to fix a problem that has been generated by government regs. Just get rid of the regs.
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#7
08-21-2007, 09:36 PM
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Re: Everybody should give away their organs upon death
I want to have my body donated to science. Organs included. What is prolonging life going to do for society as a whole? I look at it as if research could be done on me that I could possibly cure one of those diseases that creates need for donation.
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08-21-2007, 09:41 PM
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Re: Everybody should give away their organs upon death
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember that in the now defunct Soviet Union, the standard practice was to drain the dead of their blood and remove their organs for medical purposes. Which at least concering blood makes some sense since the embalmers that the funeral homes employ just drain and dispose of that blood anyway.
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08-21-2007, 09:43 PM
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Re: Everybody should give away their organs upon death
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There is no supply bottleneck, except the one created by government [/ QUOTE ] This intrigues me, there are more people dying and willing to donate organs than there are people needing organs? No sarcasm intended I honestly didn't know this was the case.
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08-21-2007, 09:45 PM
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Re: Everybody should give away their organs upon death
He means that there are many alkies who now donate plasma for money but would also be willing to donate a kidney for a few months supply of booze. Or that a dead person's family who otherwise would not donate their relative's organs for general humanistic charitable purposes, might be so willing for money.
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