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Shereen's avatar

Society is getting closer and closer to targeted "suicide" to make money off of organs. It's barbaric and satanic.

Tim's avatar

I do wish there was an ocean between us and "America's hat".

Herman Cillo's avatar

America's Hat is becoming a Redcap Fae...

Tim's avatar

Yes. More and more.

Tom from WNY's avatar

As NYS Politicritters approve signing such legislation in to State Law (of course excellent "professional medical judgment" and "compassion" prevail on paper), I will not stop acquiring my survival equipment and skills.

Thanks for the post! The warning siren is clearly sounding!

Reltney McFee's avatar

Tim: physical ocean, moral ocean, or "YES!"?

Reltney McFee's avatar

Mr. Dog: Ref your concerns: I'll rake, "How to tell me you are Pol Pot, without specifically stating that you are Pol Pot" for $800.

AND, I'd like a vowel.

Grumpy Libertarian's avatar

Here lies the road to modern China. I suppose harvesting the organs of your political opponents and minority classes is worse. The dividing line between this and them though is awfully small. The dividing line between ethically ok and either of them is so far away you cant even see it.

Sign me up as experiencing those chill's also. It isn't going to go well. Once there is a profit it's a guarantee of abuse. Once there is abuse in a life and death action such as this it is murder for profit. I can see it ramping up to many hundreds or thousands a year harvested.

Wonder what these doctors are thinking. In our western societies that weapons are available, the potential for some family member that you murdered their relative to then decide to seek justice is very much not a non zero chance. Even in societies that don't allow weapons, any given sports store sells baseball bats. Doctors are not exactly hardened targets.

The likely hood of this happening is massively greater than say a family member going after a medical malpractice death. In medical malpractice there is a legal remedy. I don't see much of one here. If the doctor gets them to sign something, even if they don't realize what they are doing, then after the fact it looks legal. Well lets call a spade a spade, it is legal. No recourse legally for family etc..

Just horror.

I removed myself from organ donation many years ago. I actually would lean toward do it based on my own beliefs. However even many years ago stories have come out about the dangers of being harvested due to deliberate letting someone die because they are an organ donor and matched someone the doctor knew about. I changed my donor status after hearing about the second case. Makes me sad but it currently moves me a couple steps away from being an unwilling donor.

Art Slartibartfast's avatar

In my country, you are automatically an organ donor at age 18 unless you opt out. This is insidous, because someone who voluntarily offers to become an organ donor is regarded as an altruistic hero, where as people who opt out are regarded as selfish and anti-social.

I opted out for various reasons, an important one being that each hospital in my country has its own protocol for organ donation. To put it bluntly, how hospital deals with organ donation depends on where you had that car accident. That kind of arbitrariness does to instill confidence.

Grumpy Libertarian's avatar

I have been thinking about your comment of donors treated like hero's and if not then like your evil/selfish.

This has become endemic in todays world for many things. For the good of others or your own good. If you dont agree your bad/evil/anti-social.

My first reaction to anyone now phrasing something in emotionaly ambigous way designt to guilt you into the appropriate response is a hard NO. Even if i might support whatever cause/person/project, they just lost my support and it is a hard no.

I catch my kids doing it, repeating something they heard. I shut them down hard and then explain why. Explain where a factual argument could be made for or against it and then that you now need to check who it is that will recieve your bounty/support and how much gets scraped off before any final recipients actually see it, if they ever do.

My wife has a favorite expression/question. Whats in it for you? Not her but the other person soluciting something through emotional manipulation. Its a good question.

Frank Ney's avatar

Just a reminder that Luigi is not alone...

Janice albert's avatar

My family is no longer on the donor side!

Louis Miller's avatar

My sentiments exactly. We trust doctors way too much.

Traci's avatar

So many of them gave away that trust to feed into the COVID scam.

Steve S6's avatar

All of them still with jobs other than sole practitioner did. Omission or commission just as guilty. And to this day those that work for the man won't discuss it (ask me how I know).

Timothy Covington's avatar

When I heard about this yesterday, I realized that Canada had fallen. This means the USA is in trouble. If we end up in a war with China, Canada will side with them. The UK is likely to be in a civil war. And, most of our allies will either be fighting Russia or fighting their own civil wars. Everyone else will likely remain neutral or side with China.

Kristin's avatar

Patients in the US are also experiencing pressure to choose assisted suicide, too. I know this because I have a family member who has been experiencing that pressure for the last 10 years.

My family member, a LEO, had a life-changing incident 16 years ago, which left her as a borderline quadriplegic in her 20's. Care for such a person is expensive. About ten years ago, her Medicaid physician started pushing her to request assisted suicide, which is legal where she lives (Colorado).

We have politicians who want to provide free health care for illegal aliens, but a young disabled LEO is offered euthanasia, HERE IN THE US. We aren't much better than our Canadian neighbors.

Brian Lee Gnad's avatar

I can remember a time when I did not believe in 'the slippery slope', but as I age, I get to see more and more of it in real world action.

Kristin's avatar

My mother used to talk about "the slippery slope". The older I get, the wiser she seems.

Brian Lee Gnad's avatar

Memorable line from a young man... "The older I get the smarter my dad gets"

John Van Stry's avatar

This whole thing has actually been done to someone I know, here in the USA.

The Oregon 'Mandatory Suicide Law' - oh wait, that's supposed to be 'Voluntary Assisted Suicide' isn't it?

Well it AIN'T (Or at least wasn't, I have no idea where it is now having fled the People's Republic of Oregon - a state that is pure commie now).

Someone I knew had terminal cancer. I Knew this person. They were determined to live as much of their life as possible - right up until Oregon said (this is a FACT) 'We're only going to pay for you to kill yourself - because that's the cheapest option and you MUST take it'.

Yup, so much for all those arguments that they wouldn't do everything they could to get grandma to off herself. Only instead of family members doing it, it was the STATE.

I honestly don't know how it all played out in the end. If they won their fight against the state to get their benefits back or not - because I didn't want to add to the family's grief and they did pass by the year's end.

But there was someone who was all for 'assisted suicide' and said this would never happen, and didn't have any answer when I showed them this case. I came very close to performing a performative dance, with all sorts of instruments, upon their body.

Grumpy Libertarian's avatar

This leads back to my prior comment on this subject. Family members seeking justice outside the law as this is now legal and or pushed many places. I can't even fathom a doctor being involved in this.

Well I can sorta as I know some doctors that have created concierge practices to get out from under government and insurance control. As well as a handful that just retired so they didn't have to deal with all the bullshit. The fact that some are fleeing this sort of stuff says that there are some that aren't

Dale Flowers's avatar

From harvesting Grade "A" organs from living people for transplant to harvesting Grade "B" organs for making Soylent Green for consumption. From Slippery Slope to Slippery Slop. And does anyone trust the FDA, AMA, USPHS or HHS anymore to monitor the process or to inspect the meat after the COVID con?

Traci's avatar

Soylent Green, anyone/

alexander.helphand's avatar

This is morally corrupt. No ifs and or buts.

Dr. Mauser's avatar

"Paging Mr. Niven, Mister Larry Niven."

They're only one step away from making organ harvesting mandatory for the death penalty, and with all the "Good" that comes from that, expect a lot more death sentences.

Frank Ney's avatar

For your 4th moving violation, as an example from Mr. Niven.

Dr. Mauser's avatar

I recall a similar story about torture. Where a guy was drafted to be on a team of torturers, only for the most dire of emergencies when they needed to extract a confession and the location of a kidnapped child. As the story progressed, the rationale broadened again and again. And then the Judge or legislator who put him there found himself at the man's hands for a traffic violation, and he was finally less unwilling....

JLR76380's avatar

Reposted to many of my friends.

Horrific news from Canada - WARNING we are already on this road.

When the "Right To Die" - Becomes the "Duty To Die"

https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/when-the-right-to-die

https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/when-the-right-to-die/comments

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