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You body is worth a lot of money to your estate. By donating it someone in the medical industry gets to steal that money from your family then profit handsomely
by rdtwo 7y ago
You body is worth a lot of money to your estate. By donating it someone in the medical industry gets to steal that money from your family then profit handsomely from it. That’s why I choose no for organ donation, the whole industry is corrupt and I don’t want to support it, even if it means that some unfortunate sick person is unable to buy my donated kidney for 50-100k in processing fees.
- synt4x1k0 7y agoWhat a terrifyingly capitalistic view.
- xwdv 7y agoWhat’s terrifying about it? That it shatters your previous understanding of the industry or that it implies some medical dystopia? Would you prefer to instead called it a terrifyingly rational view?
- nicoburns 7y agoHere in the UK healthcare is seen as a right. Hospitals and recipients of organs don't pay for them, and nobody is making money off of donated bodies. The idea that access to life-saving treatment is based on ability to pay, and that there are corporations making profit at the expense of people's health and well-being is pretty terrifying to me. There's nothing rational about such a system.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoAbility to pay dictates all aspects of life. Whether the individual pays or their country, at the end, no one works for free. That is why poor people in poorer countries than the U.K. don’t have access to life saving treatments. I’m sure even poor people in the U.K. don’t have access to the same care that rich people do.
- nicoburns 7y ago> Ability to pay dictates all aspects of life. Only under capitalism. That's precisely why this is terrifyingly capitalistic. Societies ability to produce dictates all aspects of life. But not necessarily ability to pay. > I’m sure even poor people in the U.K. don’t have access to the same care that rich people do Not if you're really rich (a millionaire). But even rich people in the UK will usually go for the NHS first. The care's pretty good.
- xwdv 7y agoAll aspects of life are ultimately dictated by something. If not by the ability to pay, then it will be by other things out of your control or your ability to curry favor with those who can get you what you want. I’d prefer it just be dictated by pay and skip the bullshit.
- manigandham 7y agoThat's not what capitalism is. It's an economic system and has absolutely nothing to do with governance, policies, and the greater good.
- mybodymychoice 7y agoYou mean like these people in the article who turn donated bodies into cosmetic lip and penis filler?
- hu3 7y agoPerhaps that's the case in USA and a few other countries. But AFAIK on some countries of EU and Brazil, receiving organs is either free or inexpensive.
- bjornjaja 7y agoFree organs . I wouldn’t want one of those. Maybe it’s filled with bullet holes.
- segmondy 7y agoDo you know any doctors or medical school students? Ask them how well they would have learned about the human body if they didn't have cadavers to learn with.
- mybodymychoice 7y agoThe medical school is paying anyway for that body, $50k or whatever. So why not directly pay the family if the deceased instead of a middle man?
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- bjornjaja 7y agoIf that’s the case the money can go back to a pool of resources like healthcare and whatnot IF it’s not privatized like the USA. Otherwise, it’s designed to line the pockets of investors, etc.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> By donating it someone in the medical industry gets to steal that money from your family No, because the body was never theirs, no one can steal it or it's value from them. You might choose to give it to them (including by leaving the matte to the default inheritance rules of your jurisdiction), you might choose to give it someone else, but until you do and it is transferred according to that decisions, it's no one’s but yours. We aren't property of other people, whether of the same, past, or subsequent generations.