Hold onto your livers, kidneys, etc. The rich will be coming for them.

[Jaskalas]

Government needs to stay out of our bodies. That's the place for our employers!

Is this the... two wrongs make a right?

 

[TeeJay1952]

I think that upon reflection that the onus is on the Government to take out the stipulation that sister give up kidney. It would be wrong to codify realese from prison with giving up body part. Slippery Slope.

 

[nobodyknows]

How about we first worry about getting a decent donation rate on those kidneys that are no longer needed as opposed to worrying about taking a spare from someone who is alive.

OK, but I have to ask myslef, why is there a shortage of organ donors? It seems to be a trust issue to me. I personally don't think people are worried about what happen to their body parts after they die so much as they worry about being in an accident and being a match for the right person or ending up not getting the quality of care they should get so they can have their organs harvestyed.

Medicine has become so much more about money rather then care that nobody trusts a strange doctor anymore then they would a strange lawyer.

 

[jayzds]

There is shortage of kidneys due to lack of incentive to donate them. Lots of good kidneys from young dead people never get donated for this reason.

This.
Also, IMO if they made it opt out instead of opt in then most of the problems would be gone. The ones who care more about taking their body parts to their grave would/could opt out. I feel that the majority would be donors but do not have the initiative/don't know how to go through with changing the process of being a donor.

 

[nobodyknows]

Indian Victims Relate Horror of Kidney Theft

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4224506

I guess it won't be long before we start doing it like they do in India? This happened once in the US a long time ago? The early 80's I believe?? That when I took the "donor" option off my drivers license.

 

[JD50]

Indian Victims Relate Horror of Kidney Theft

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4224506

I guess it won't be long before we start doing it like they do in India? This happened once in the US a long time ago? The early 80's I believe?? That when I took the "donor" option off my drivers license.

Wow dude, you're kind of retarded.

 

[JD50]

Simple solution, paranoid morons that aren't organ donors shouldn't be allowed to be the recipient of a donated organ, let them die.

 

[Throckmorton]

Indian Victims Relate Horror of Kidney Theft

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4224506

I guess it won't be long before we start doing it like they do in India? This happened once in the US a long time ago? The early 80's I believe?? That when I took the "donor" option off my drivers license.

How is being a donor or not when you die going to affect whether your organs get stolen?

 

[JD50]

How is being a donor or not when you die going to affect whether your organs get stolen?

I was wondering that too.

 

[shortylickens]

How is being a donor or not when you die going to affect whether your organs get stolen?

Its been argued (with no evidence) that a guy with a donor mark on his ID wont get the same lifesaving effort in the emergency room.
Even if that were the case, I seriously doubt someone brutal enough to rip organs from a body and sell them would let a mere mark on a card interfere with their plans.