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KY man wakes during organ harvesting procedure, prompting federal investigation
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cannedtunaThat’s a fucking nightmare. Definitely in my top fears, waking up on a surgery table
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ZachariahKentucky organization allegedly began harvesting organs from people who may not have been dead.
No shit
That's terrifying, sounds like it'd happen in a FNAF book. Think it has actually.
If anyone would like to learn more about the powers that be that resulted in this disaster, here's an article that goes over how the orgs that manage organ donation, inducing pressure on medical staff and introduce a conflict of interest.
driving_croonerAre organs from people dead for overdose useful? I would guess they would be full of drugs or other damage.
My guess would be that some may not be viable because of certain drugs but that doesn't mean all of them are. You probably wouldn't want the liver of a heavy drinker but thier lungs are probably fine?
If it's a question between a slightly cirrhosis liver or no liver at all? Wouldn't it be better to get the alcoholic liver?
Makes me reconsider being an organ donor. They were trying to "euthanize" him to sell his organs. This was attempted murder for profit.
The sad thing is we desperately need people to stay organ donors if organ transplants that save lives are to stay a thing and these ethical catastrophes that should lead to mass arrests instead end with people leaving the registry and seemingly 0 consequences for the ghouls that caused the issue…
It’s not unlikely this will cause shortages for people in need that was completely preventable due to greed and capitalism.
Not only that but the reduction in organ supply will be a windfall for shareholders! I see this as an absolute win! USA, USA!
Spot on. I've had my donor registration sitting on my desk for the last few years, and I've been deliberating on it because I don't trust capitalism not to create perverse incentives and do fucked up shit just like this.
That, and I don't want my remains to just be a tool to help fund some CEO's yacht.
Reading this, I feel even more justified in my concern, and it definitely could affect my ultimate decision.
i once posted a question on another forum a while ago about organ donation, what if we can decide which organs go to which persons, so it would mitigate some of these issues,
over_cloxIf you can decide where your organs go, wouldn't you decide to keep them for yourself? Dude wasn't brain dead they say..
TrickDacyThis is a rash conclusion to jump to
What other conclusion is there?
That it would be horrible to deny people a chance at life because you read a shitty clickbait article
I have heard other anecdotes of doctors pushing families into cutting support so they can use the organs. Seems plausible to me
Yes this sort of bullshit is why lots of people die needlessly. Some lie that a friend of a friend supposedly "knew". It's conspiracy nonsense that would only ever make a shred of sense if the doctor pushing for it personally knew the recipient and also knew they were a match. Not saying it's never happened but calling it dubious is too kind.
Read the article. It was plainly stated, that's why I put euthanize in quotations as that was the terminology used by the staff attempting to murder him.
Then that is a shit-ass article not worth my time. Pretty obvious no one would admit to doing that if they were. What the hell is wrong with you to believe that?
You're a rude piece of shit, fuck off.
Look who is talking, psycho. Lol "they were euthanizing these people!!111"
Just capitalism things. I hate what they’ve done to this country.
I don't know why there are never any business school shooters (I mean obviously it's because people who go to them are out to take as much for themselves as possible, but you know what I mean)
muusemuuseThat’s actually a good point, even if a bit macabre. Luigi took out a health insurance ghoul. Business majors doom us all. I’m not the only one to draw that conclusion.
I dont see a way out of this mess without people dying so I dont let myself have a gun. But not everyone who thinks this way places the same shackles on themselves.
So why isnt that more common?
Happens in capitalist china too
I mean, it's almost like regardless of the economic, political, religious (etc.) framework they're operating within bad people will do bad things to one another for personal gain or something.
SchmooBut bad systems create the incentives. Chalking it up to "bad people doing bad things" is a shallow analysis that does nothing to address the underlying problem. If you replaced all the "bad people" with "good people" you would see the same problems re-emerge due to the perverse incentives created by the profit motive.
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Jesus Christ. He was showing "too many signs of life" to continue the surgery? Isn't any sign too much? He was apparently trashing and they still wanted to go forward?
And how was he declared brain dead if he clearly wasn't? I guess since he OD'd he's just a junkie who doesn't deserve to keep his own organs?
He was irresponsible with them, instead of doing drugs he should have been making children and increasing shareholder value.... /s
Isnt this just the most accurate l representation of our disgustingly disheartening current timeline
Good god, this is horrific!
I’m having flashbacks to a movie where people had donated organs removed if they couldn’t keep up repayments, can anyone remember what it was called?
Repo the genetic opera. Love that movie
Thanks! That was it, Repo Men. I’ve not seen your one.
Oh yeah that one, thanks for reminding me
This is the stuff of nightmares. Dystopian future is here where the wealthy can have a middleman group, that supply organs from poor people. The middleman just takes care of business