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The silent component of the disgust behind what's happening in articles like this is the fear that medical professionals will see greater profit from letting yo

The silent component of the disgust behind what's happening in articles like this is the fear that medical professionals will see greater profit from letting you die than from saving your life. I bet there are already cases like this, either in the US, or in the dystopia that is China. Fuck, I mean, there's already people out there who drug people and harvest their kidneys in a bathtub of some dirty motel somewhere. If there are people doing this shit on the black market, then there's definitely sociopaths that would do this shit in the hospitals if they thought they could get away with it, which is just what the organ donor checkbox opens the door to.

linuxftw 7y ago
Yes, the incentives are very perverse. What an average person considers 'dead' and what the organ harvesters consider dead are two completely different things [1]. Organ-carving doctors are desensitized to death. They don't care if you live or die, but they do care if they get to harvest your organs because those are worth a ton of money. I'm sure there's 100's if not 1000's of people getting carved up every year that could have been saved, but the incentives are to let the person die to harvest their organs. 1: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/patient-wakes-doctors-remove-organs/story?id=19609438 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/patient-wakes-doctors-remove-o...