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More totalitarianism. People are treated like a mixture between children and cattle. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hospital-errors-lead-to-dead-patient-opening-
by amekp 6y ago
More totalitarianism. People are treated like a mixture between children and cattle.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hospital-errors-lead-to-dead-patient-opening-eyes-during-organ-harvesting/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hospital-errors-lead-to-dead-pa...
- KeepFlying 6y agoThe article you linked is a truly horrifying thought. I wonder though if a change like this would reduce those cases in the long term though. If there are more organs available, wouldn't there be less pressure to harvest from any particular person?
- carlinmack 6y agohow is totalitarianism giving the option to opt-out?
- al_chemist 6y ago"If you don't like government ideas, why don't you move somewhere else?" Moving out is the best opt-out ever. (until pandemic hits and you can't move out)
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- tobib 6y agoWhile this is a horrifying story, I'm having a hard time seeing the relevance here. There is nothing in the article indicating that the errors were caused by the family agreeing to organ donation.
- ummonk 6y agoHad the family not agreed to organ donation, they wouldn’t have planned to harvest the organs in the first place.
- ncallaway 6y ago"More totalitarianism" Nonsense. Absolute and utter nonsense. There's an opt-out.
- anslq 6y ago> There's an opt-out. That was the spammer's excuse 10 years ago.
- mojzu 6y agoWhat relevance does a 10 year old article from a US hospital have on this UK news? As long as the opt-out is respected I also don't see what's totalitarian about it.
- VikingCoder 6y ago"Medical errors kill almost 100000 Americans a year" [1] You're picking one horror story because it fits your parameters, and pretending it's something to worry about. It's not. Cheers. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117251/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117251/
- anslq 6y agoI'm not aware that a medical procedure is opt-out, I always assumed it was voluntary. Unlike this state mandated organ seizure, if you haven't heard the news and opt-out of yet another thing.
- crooked-v 6y agoThere are about a million other things done to dead bodies that will kill a mistakenly-identified-as-dead person as stone dead as removing an organ, so organ donation specifically doesn't really have a special status here outside of it being potentially the first item on the long checklist.
- VikingCoder 6y agoEmergency procedures are often done without consent. Because patients are often unconscious and cannot give consent. Just like in your story.