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The exemption for celebrities is especially troublesome. Who determines if you are a celebrity or media interest. What if a celebrity had an organ donor citati
by frankharv 7y ago
The exemption for celebrities is especially troublesome.
Who determines if you are a celebrity or media interest.
What if a celebrity had an organ donor citation on their drivers license.
Do they still exempt them?
I might remove my organ donation status after reading this.
It is a distortion of what I assumed occurred.
It would have been helpful to list the states where this is allowed.
"California and many other states" is not very informative.
Harvesting body parts for profit is obscene.
- bostik 7y ago> The exemption for celebrities is especially troublesome. When I saw that one, it became clear the companies involved in this know they are operating on shaky ground. There is a perfectly valid concern of rich/eccentric/stalky people paying a lot of money to be fitted with bodyparts of their idol. I get that. But even then the primary motivator can only be pre-emptive avoidance of PR backlash. Harvesting cadavers for big profits feels creepy enough. But just imagine the media storm if a celebrity's family goes on national TV, complaining how their plans for open-coffin funeral were ruined because the national treasure's body had been taken apart and sold for very high-value scrap. Possibly (and quite literally) even before the corpse had got cold. Optics are important. Checks the price of cornea.