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> It doesn’t set a standard of organ donation being a good thing. The donation part, outside of specific cases like kidneys where they can be donated by a livi
by franga2000 5y ago
> It doesn’t set a standard of organ donation being a good thing.
The donation part, outside of specific cases like kidneys where they can be donated by a living person, is never a "good thing" if you're looking at where it came from - usually someone dying in a car accident or worse.
And besides, harvesting organs from death row inmates isn't a donation, so it wouldn't really dilute that.
fwiw, I'm not defending taking organs from death row inmates, just replying to this specific concern. Hell, I'd much rather we took organs from any dead body we can - the idea of bodily integrity for a corpse being valued so much we'd rather let people die than violate it is IMO one of our biggest failures as a society.