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oh man i would be PISSSED if i got an organ transplant and it turned out to be from an alabaman
This is worse. It's not even for transplantation. It's so medical students can dissect them.
I am all for medical students being able to study real human organs. That's what voluntary donors are for.
This also makes it that much harder to determine actual cause of death.
I suspect that is part of it too.
Remember that we have no idea what's actually happening here. The prison officials would and do lie about everything. We can assume that all the missing organs were for medical research. We can assume the returned organs were actually that person's organs. But we just don't know. This is par for the course with the "justice" system.
If it's for medical student use, I'm not sure I'd say it was worse. I'm more apt to believe the deaths aren't suspect if this is the case, versus the organs being used in transplants. There's a lot of money and motive for corruption with transplants. But it's also probably an easy jump from harvesting organs without consent to give to med schools to them doing it for money and transplants. It's all bad.
I guess it's worse to me because if it's giving a dying person an organ, at least their life is prolonged. I realize training doctors saves lives too though.
It’s weird to me they are suing the department of corrections. (Which I’m sure is guilty of plenty of other crimes…) But if the autopsies are state ordered, and performed at UAB, seems like they should sue them instead.
this seems like one of those things we would say if we are not wearing those shoes.
i think if i was waiting for an organ to save my life i dont give a fuck where it came from, as long as its legal.
i wouldnt be pissed it was from some poor convict in a conservative state.. id be pissed someone stole organ
yea, i was joking dude.
when you get a transplant, they don't tell you anything about where it came from unless the donor family specifically tells them to let you know. which these particular alabamans wouldn't do
yeah, sorry, im prolly a bit sensitive due to working in the industry... did not catch the sarcasm
i get it. one of my closest friends is a TX patient, and it was not a smooth road. sometimes you just have to find humor somewhere, because you can only cry so much before there's nothing left
yeah it reminds me of the all in the family where archie does not want the wrong type of blood.
Woosh
when you work with dying people sometimes its hard to see the humor. especially when those statements are actually heard without sarcasm, like 'i dont want an organ from black person'
Lolwut?
“OK here’s the number for palliative care”
i hope you tell those people "you'll get the organ that's compatible, and you're not going to know from whom it came. or we can take you off the list, your call"
Jesus fucking Christ! Sorry you have to put up with that, man.