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Wait, what?

baconsmombaconsmom member
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We DON'T let prisoners donate organs?! Why the hell not? This doesn't make a damn bit of sense to me. Is it because the government thinks it doubly owns their bodies or something? Why are we wasting healthy organs?! 

An Oregon death row inmate is mounting an aggressive behind-bars campaign to donate his organs after he’s executed, in part to repay society for the gruesome murders of his wife and three young children.Christian Longo, 37, says he wants to do more to take responsibility for killing his family and dumping their bodies in coastal bays nearly a decade ago than simply accepting execution by lethal injection.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42667886/ns/health-health_care/
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  • baconsmombaconsmom member
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_wait-11?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:47Discussion:5b8d2eaf-4f1e-403b-9824-88dc85d5b109Post:bfd53679-b33e-460f-bbc1-8f9cddd3a1d6">Wait, what?</a>:
    [QUOTE]We DON'T let prisoners donate organs?! Why the hell not? This doesn't make a damn bit of sense to me. Is it because the government thinks it doubly owns their bodies or something? Why are we wasting healthy organs?! <div>
    </div><div> An Oregon death row inmate is mounting an aggressive behind-bars campaign to donate his organs after he’s executed, in part to repay society for the gruesome murders of his wife and three young children. Christian Longo, 37, says he wants to do more to take responsibility for killing his family and dumping their bodies in coastal bays nearly a decade ago than simply accepting execution by lethal injection.</div><div>
    </div><div> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42667886/ns/health-health_care/" rel='nofollow'>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42667886/ns/health-health_care/</a>
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  • loveshine1loveshine1 member
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    What? That makes no sense.
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  • baconsmombaconsmom member
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    They're talking in the article about coercion and trading leniency for organs, but honestly, I don't care. I think selling organs should be legal - they're my organs, if I want to get paid for a kidney, I should be able to. 

    I could see if way too many organs were unusable or something, but that doesn't seem to be the case, at least in this guy's case. 
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  • Butter CookieButter Cookie member
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    I think some people might freak out if they found their liver came from someone who had raped and murdered 17 women, but I could be wrong. I agree that prisoners should be able to donate organs, but I don't know the laws about how much is known by the recipient about the donor, how much is legally accessible, etc.
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  • AuntFloAuntFlo member
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    I know it's completely irrational, and I'd probably think a little differently if I were in desperate need of an organ, but I wouldn't want anything from someone who murdered people.
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  • baconsmombaconsmom member
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    That's fine; maybe they could institute a protocol to put you farther down on the list or something if that's the case.

    But if I need an organ, I don't care where it's coming from. The person who murdered has left the body - murderous impulses don't live in livers and hearts. I would have no qualms whatever about taking a felon's organ. 
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  • ReturnOfKuusReturnOfKuus member
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    edited December 2011
    I think we as a society care way too much about the rights of murderers.
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  • baconsmombaconsmom member
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    edited December 2011
    Or not enough. Shouldn't it be up to a prisoner to decide what happens to his body after death? Why doesn't that include being an organ and tissue donor? 

    I dunno; to me, this seems like a basic human right that we should extend even to horrible criminals. But I disagree with the death penalty anyway, so Kuus, you probably just think I'm a dirty hippie anyway. 
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  • NOLABridesmaidNOLABridesmaid member
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    Plus, his kidney didn't tell him to do it,so chop..chop.
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  • ReturnOfKuusReturnOfKuus member
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    I'm not a fan of the death penalty as-is, either.
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  • Butter CookieButter Cookie member
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    Huh. For the dirty hippie I consider myself to be I'm okay with the death penalty for certain people.
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  • MiddlesexFellsMiddlesexFells member
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    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_wait-11?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:47Discussion:5b8d2eaf-4f1e-403b-9824-88dc85d5b109Post:8b4634f6-e737-443c-9d9a-42624439ea6e">Re: Wait, what?</a>:
    [QUOTE]<strong>They're talking in the article about coercion and trading leniency for organs,</strong> but honestly, I don't care. I think selling organs should be legal - they're my organs, if I want to get paid for a kidney, I should be able to.  I could see if way too many organs were unusable or something, but that doesn't seem to be the case, at least in this guy's case. 
    Posted by baconsmom[/QUOTE]

    I'm thinking this is on target -- they're worried about the appearance of impropriety. But since the article talks about prisoners being more likely to be organ donors if they are in an accident or something, I wonder if the lethal injection might adversely affect the tissue? It is poison, after all.
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