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Thoughts?
I ran across this article this morning.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42667886/ns/health-health_care
Personally, I don't see it as "morally reprehensible". If a prisoner is completely willing to donate his organs, and a) doesn't use donating as a bargining chip and b)doesn't make the system pay the medical bills (in the case of live donations), why not let them donate? I get that the logistics of a executed inmate donating would be difficult, but if you're saving 8 lives why not try to work it out? I'm talking in general terms, not just this guy in particular. We've got a very long list of people waiting for organ transplants, and I'm fairly certain most people on that list wouldn't care that the organ that saved their life came from a prisoner.
What do you ladies think?
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Re: Thoughts?
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I can see how it could be a slipper slope because I foresee some prisoners using it as a bargaining chip but like you said, if they put stipulations on it, why not?
Also, what about the ones that were listed as donors before being incarcerated? I don't know how many of them would be but I'm sure they would be some. Obviously, it's not a bargaining chip for them because they decided BEFORE being locked up.
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Ditto Larissa.
I don't understand the comment in the article that we don't want to be the kind of society that takes organs from prisoners. If they were not willing to donate, and we were just killing them all to harvest their organs, well, sure we don't want to be that kind of society. But someone who wants to donate their organs? I think this paragraph in the article sums up my thoughts:
Donating his organs won't atone for the murders, says Longo, who now claims he believes his death sentence is just. It would allow him to do some good, however, perhaps providing comfort to his family.
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I am totally with you on this. That comment about not being that kind of society kinda upset me. So we want to be a society that has the ability to save lives, but won't because the life saving organs are coming from an inmate?
As everyone else has said, as long as they are not doing it as a bargaining chip but sincerely just to help others out, why not?