tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post114049381475266305..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: Buying and Selling OrgansAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-37626838744472655452008-10-13T20:02:00.000-06:002008-10-13T20:02:00.000-06:00I would sell one of my fully functional kidneys fo...I would sell one of my fully functional kidneys for $100,000 plus full transplant bill,O-pos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-1140897698984948352006-02-25T13:01:00.000-07:002006-02-25T13:01:00.000-07:00Good theory but severely prone to abuse in practic...Good theory but severely prone to abuse in practice. Consider an alternative: mandatory post-mortem organ extraction. <BR/><BR/>Multiply the annual death rate with the average number of organs that were functional to the very end (two or three in even the old and ill), and you get a number very close, if not exceeding, the number of people on the waiting lists. <BR/><BR/>The biggest problem with the current practice is lack of reciprocity. If you hope to receive an organ in case of serious illness, you have to become a donor. If you are not willing to give, you do not deserve to receive. <BR/><BR/>But people do not want to think of illness and death, so most never get a donor’s card. People who have nothing against having their organs removed after death, do not make their position known. <BR/><BR/>Upon ones death the doctors have to gain approval of organ extraction from the grief stricken family, and they must get it very quickly, or the organs become useless. Most of the time they do not succeed.<BR/><BR/>The current system presumes disproval, or lack of opinion at best. But what if it presumed approval? Unless one has stated, during one’s lifetime, in the presence of one’s personal doctor and lawyer, clear disproval of organ removal, the doctors would, upon one’s death, not only be allowed but required to extract all functioning organs from the deceased. <BR/><BR/>Not harvesting the organs would fall in the category of denying treatment to several patients, a severe fault that would merit revoking a doctor’s practice license.<BR/><BR/>This would remove the black market and exploitation by removing the need of selling and buying organs. Simple and less controversial.<BR/><BR/>General society could use praise and reprimand to ensure people do not to disprove the practice. It should start right now, not just by praising donors but buy presenting the general public with the issue of reciprocity. <BR/><BR/>“Do you want to die on the waiting list? If not – become a donor today.” Or to paraphrase it positively: “Would you like to be confident in the knowledge that you will receive an organ should you ever need one? If yes – become a donor today.”<BR/><BR/>BTW: In ten to twenty years time, when a method of activating the present but dormant regeneration-triggering gene is found, the whole transplantation practice will become obsolete.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-1140627161556173912006-02-22T09:52:00.000-07:002006-02-22T09:52:00.000-07:00Totally in favor of organ selling.Actually I'm eve...Totally in favor of organ selling.<BR/><BR/>Actually I'm even in favor of people being allowed to sell organs they need to live if they like, as that should be thier choice to make not anyone else's.<BR/><BR/>Could be a good way to encourage folks on death row to sell organs in exchange for money for their families and perhaps they could even be forced to split it with victims/victims' families. <BR/><BR/>Plus the money could even be useful to the living, ala Joe versus the Volcanoe; here's a half million dollars Mr Terminally Ill, come see me in 6 months and we'll harvest your good organs.<BR/><BR/>Really it all goes back to freedom of choice in ones own body, which is why suicide, elective surgery and everything else in this vein should be legal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-1140573250793545932006-02-21T18:54:00.000-07:002006-02-21T18:54:00.000-07:00Well, I cannot speak strongly in favor of a social...Well, I cannot speak strongly in favor of a social institution that not only permits but encourages people to view innocent but 'different' people with shock and horror. Yet, at the same time I do not think that the best option is one that throws these people into poverty either.<BR/><BR/>I did some quick research on your traffic light issue. It turns out to be valid, as reported in the <A HREF="http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/13542679.htm" REL="nofollow">Kansas City Star</A>. Okay, I admit, I was suspicious that this was just another gross exaggeration when I first read your description.<BR/><BR/>I'll look at it, and see if I can find something in it that has more than a local interest.<BR/><BR/>If your posting comes up twice, I will delete one of them. But, it seems to have come up at least once.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-1140572136479401862006-02-21T18:35:00.000-07:002006-02-21T18:35:00.000-07:00Hey. This is Tony Sommer, who used to have a blog ...Hey. This is Tony Sommer, who used to have a blog called atheist thoughts. I closed it because my xanga one is perfectly fine. Anyway, this article sounds a lot like those "freaks" back a couple decades ago that were in shows and people paid to see them. The shows closed down because people started to say that these people were being exploited, but the freaks themselves were the ones opposing these people the most since this was a place where they were excepted and they got good pay. I live in Kansas City, and my dad told me that the city is going to put in video cameras that will catch people running red lights. In exchange for putting the cameras in, the city pays the company a percentige of their profits from tickets. The catch is that if there aren't enough tickets, the company gets control of the light. So then the company sets it so the yellow light is shorter and more people run red lights, so the company can get more money. The city likes the deal because more people will be caught running red lights and they'll make more money. When my dad told me this I thought of you since this seems the type of thing you dislike so much. <BR/><BR/>P.S. I don't know if this posted the first time, so I'm trying again. If it comes up twice I apologise, I'm not use to bloggerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com