Vote NO to Organ Donation

You can’t be bias about who should be getting your organs. It's the same as a racist not wanting to give a colored person their organs to save their life. Bad people will always find means to get what they want. I rather they take whatever they can from my rotting corpse than stealing it from another living person out of selfish desperation.

IMHO, this is probably what happened in this movie where organs are harvested from clones with specifically preferred genetics. Those who created or even raised them cared not if they had a soul. Morale are ignored by desperately sick people. And what's sad is that these clones in the end accepted their fate. Not once did I witness any physical violence or force upon these individuals. They were never caged or mistreated, just programmed to serve their unfortunate purpose.

you are missing the point, like many here, simply because you seem to be uninformed. You can donate only certain things, like skin, bones, cornea when you are dead and these are very useful donations, don't get me wrong. However, if a vital organ is to be donated, the donor has to be clinically alive with a beating heart because organs become unusuable within a matter of seconds after a clinical death, yet proper procuring is not a fast and easy job.
What basically happens is that you qualify as a donor when you are diagnosed with brain death. Now brain death is a relatively new medical term and is in itself a fickle thing. It's not uncommon for someone who's been diagnosed with brain death to "wake up" and begin functioning normally. Not a lot is yet actually known about how the brain and its signals work. Should your family at this point sign you off as a donor, you and them lose any rights you had as a live human being, they are allowed to see you briefly and that is it, they are not allowed to request additional brain scans or a waiting period.
And what a poster above me said is also true, as long as you are legally alive and a known donor, hospitals will take greater care of you, they need you and your donor material to be in good health, just like those kids in the movie.

The "say no to organ donation" people in this thread make me sick to my stomach. Actually, I didn't even know people like that existed. Honestly.

In many countries in Europe (France, Sweden, the UK I think...) everyone is a donor UNLESS you opt out. That makes 100% sense (and i speak as someone who doesn't need an organ transplant nor knows anybody who does, so no self-interest here).

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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying! /Bette Davis/

The OP has not only missed the point of the movie, but with their suggestion of "Say no to organ donation" will actually drive up illegal organ harvesting and human trading/trafficking.

If more people donate when they don't need their organs (ie when they're dead) then there would be no need for illegal harvesting and certainly no need for clones.

OP you're an idiot.



Walter Sobchak: Am I wrong?
The Dude: You're not wrong Walter. You're just an a**hole.

I'd like to clear up a few 'beliefs' here. My mother was an organ donor coordinator in Texas for many years. Families are never pressured to donate. Even if an ID (as in a driver's license) says "YES", the decision of the family can, and will, override that stated preference. The "YES" is just a preference. The family is never approached to discuss organ donation until after the patient is declared clinically dead. Often, families who choose to donate are the ones who initiate the discussion and ask to speak to an organ donor coordinator.

I think that the more controversial issues associated with organ donation are (1) the factors which come into play in ranking on the list those which need organ transplants; and (2) the "shadow" market in many countries of healthy people being paid to have organs take from them, or, even more dire, being kidnapped and medicated such that they donate organs without their consent. These are all ethical questions which call into play how to better regulate the "market" of organ transplantation across all conditions -- voluntary and unpaid, voluntary and paid, and involuntary and unpaid.