Could this be true?British Transplantation Society criticizes alleged use of  prisoner organs without consent.
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Its possible, China's record on human rights is appalling.  The trade in human organs has been happening for years I'm afraid to say.  Often its impoverished locals who are persuaded to sell their organs to tourists who come to the country for transplant.  It happens in India so it may well be happening in China too.
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No, technically it is the person's body and they should be able to do with it what they please.\n\nHowever, imho, I do feel it is morally wrong and selfish not to be an organ donor. If you're dead, your physical self shouldn't matter anymore. Why not help someone else to live longer? And like you said, you never know when you might need an organ....how would you feel if no one wanted to donate to you?
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That's a lot of questions. Let's see...\n1) I will not donate my organs. There's no point. For medical reasons, they would be unusable except for training purposes, and I feel that is undignified.\n\n2) Ordinary means of resusitation can include paddles. But machines that breathe for you or take over organ function for more than a few minutes would be extraordinary.\n\n3) Euthanasia should be illegal because it's too easy to shift the decision from the person to the doctor, or worse, the inheritor. This has already happened in Holland.\n\n4) I could only offer encouragement, and see to it that appropriate pain relievers are made available.\n\n5) Passive is the only way. However, witholding of feeding is NOT acceptable.\n\n6) No. That is not a decision that can be morally made by any man.\n\n7) Life ends when brain function stops. At that point, the soul is no longer present, and there is no point in keeping the rest of the  body functioning.\n\nOh, I'm 52, and have a personal relationship with my Creator.
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All excellent points - and the simple truth is that people **DO** afford criminals more rights than victims. It isn't politically correct to do otherwise.\n\nHowever in the US, a very interesting project has been set up. In short although people cannot be FORCED to submit to corporal punishment - some criminals can VOLUNTEER to be treated in that way under some conditions - and perhaps get reduced jail time in return.\n\nLots of details here http://www.okplus.com/fedup/index.html \n\nVery interestingly, they presently have a ZERO recidivism level for people that have been through their system.\n\nDo not be thrown by the site, the program is still running BUT the website is badly in need of some updating (or was when I last looked)\n\nI think one hangup people have about corporal punishment, is the perceived severity of it. The old UK / USA way of flogging across the back in fact left little more than "shaving nicks" - if it cut at all.\n\nAnyone who has seen too many "Mutiny on the bounty" style films and wishes to disagree should try to remember that the make-up department tends to get more than a little carried away.\n\nWet rope is not sharp enough or dense enough to "lay a mans back open to the bone" Something does not need to cut to be felt ;)\n\nThe scheme mentioned above in fact uses low-voltage cable as a cheap disposable lash material. Like the rope, little or no cutting at all - but apparently the welts are quite tender at the time.\n\nI just wish we had a system like this in the UK too, I think it could be a valuable tool to help people stay out of prison and to reduce the prison population. Nanny-state in the UK though at the moment so not much chance for a while yet.
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How about all of this 'organ stealing' stuff, and cadavar theft?\nThere are too many 'good' reasons not to do it..I just think they should pay you, in advance, for the organ you will donate when you pass on. Seems logical and a good way to keep the organs coming...then again, if you paid someone for a liver and they became an alcoholic....
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I think you might have something there, there is billions of pounds being put into the reseach, this would be lost if a cure was found, seems strange they can cure virtually every other complaint, even to replacing hearts........very suspicious
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I don't think they've been doing them long enough to know. Technically there might not be too many issues considering the types of surgery around now. I think the biggest issue is the psychological impact on the patient - I am sure many people would not be able to cope as our appearence is so intrinsic as to who we are. Also I think it unlikely there will be many donors and it will be very difficult for the bereaved to come to terms with the possibility of a loved-ones face being used by someone else.
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Of course NOT. Some answerers above answered "we can do whatever we want to ourselves" but that's WRONG. You can take drug if you want? No you cannot. There is such a thing called SOCIETAL IMPACT. In economics we call it Negative Externality. Some answerers above gave a good answer by saying that allowing people to sell their organ will lead to more crime, whether it's people "robbing" someone's organ, or corporate crime whereby companies exert their influence to manipulate the organ transplant process to maximize their monetary profits.\n\nI hope stem cell research can take off soon -- THAT is the hope in the medical community.
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Death penalty laws are social engineering. I cannot subscribe to the ethics of social engineering. As a nurse who has worked in the system with pedophiles, I know also that episodic imprisonment is ineffective. They are relentless. I support the only known ethical solution which is chemical castration.  But, then again, I believe in that for Conservatives, too.
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They took it from the old British system. There must be exciting to see flesh flayed with blood spurting. An old british disease. Some indulge in it as a fetish. Anything cruel punishment is a deterrence. That include chopping limbs in other countries. Besides pain and scars, prisoners reported having long term bladder problems. Introducing it to US is just empty talk.
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there's dozens of anonymous deaths in colombia that after the autopsies are dispatched (at the will of the pathologist) to whichever university needs them. the law protects this (as it does the donation of organs from unclaimed corpses) here.\n\nUnlike other places we're strongly catholic so nobody will donate themselves to science. we do get plenty more than most anywhere else in the world...i guess it's an unfortunately lucky balance.
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Indeed.  I read it in Scientific American.  They grind unusable organs that didn't make the cut for transplantation.  The spleen is especially high in heamocytes which fight the deleterious effects of male erectile dysfunction.  Future research is looking at whether soylent green can reduce the troublesome size of the main sphincter in those affectionatetly known as as*h**es.
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There are too few transplantable hearts to waste them on people with a death wish, but it is not my decision.  My driver's license states that I am an organ donor, but there was no check-off box that said "Do not give my organs to a smoker."  Life is not fair, and people are worse.
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Yes but there would have to be very strict osntrols surrounding it and it would have to be done in a controlled environment such as a hospital. Imagine if someone killed a person and stood up in court and said "it was a mercy killing, they wanted to die" and there was no way of convicting them or murder.
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hopefully the ones donated will start doing their natural job in the sick person's body to restore the person to a healthy state. The 'bad' organs , such as bad kidneys are not always removed, just pushed to the side sort of. The "bad' organs which are removed will go to a pathology lab to closely identify the disease cause, some may be donated to science for research and teaching.
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No, what if that person's organs die before they are removed? What if the organ's are not compatible? then the suicide would be useless. \n\nDepending on what is needed, sometimes a person can donate while they remain alive.\n\nDonating is a great virtue, but all within it's own time, suicide affects many people and may even affect the person waiting on a transplant
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Part of me thinks it is acceptable with the alcoholics/smokers thing because if I donated my organs I'd want them to go to someone who would deserve & appreciate them not just use them to be able to cause a bit more damage to themselves.\n\nI'd draw the line at the white,black,chinese,muslim bit because at the end of the day as long as that person isn't going to abuse that organ again we're all just people wanting to get better,it doesn't matter what race or religion we are.