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In 2015, we saw a real-life staging from the popular Dusk Till Dawn series when a father, George Pickering II, stood over the body of his son with a pair of guns, standing off medical teams bent on disconnecting the boy's life support and harvesting his organs. To be sure, they had consent from another family member - but the father felt the signs of life in his son. They sent him to jail for nearly a year, but he and the boy are now united and healthy.
At the time, I thought that if this was what it took to prevent such a killing, there must be more.
Well, in recent incidents T.J. Hoover was nearly harvested before waking up, and Misty Hawkins was cut into - only then was the heartbeat noticed. Now we have the rather surprising turn of events that Kennedy's HHS is taking on a homicidal medical industry, which is said to have had 28 such cases. An underlying cause is that transplantation, once restricted to irreversibly brain-dead donors, is now open to "circulatory death" -- the kind that people often recover from.
Of course, we'll never know how many times people in the OR simply went along with management urging to continue the procedure, without saying what happened.
In the past, people have been shy to criticize organ donation programs out of the fear of killing potential recipients with bureaucracy; it was an understandable impulse. But if medicine becomes unavailable to the lower and former middle class, that dynamic will change. People who can be involved in the system only as meat will have no particular reason to care if it keeps working.
At the time, I thought that if this was what it took to prevent such a killing, there must be more.
Well, in recent incidents T.J. Hoover was nearly harvested before waking up, and Misty Hawkins was cut into - only then was the heartbeat noticed. Now we have the rather surprising turn of events that Kennedy's HHS is taking on a homicidal medical industry, which is said to have had 28 such cases. An underlying cause is that transplantation, once restricted to irreversibly brain-dead donors, is now open to "circulatory death" -- the kind that people often recover from.
Of course, we'll never know how many times people in the OR simply went along with management urging to continue the procedure, without saying what happened.
In the past, people have been shy to criticize organ donation programs out of the fear of killing potential recipients with bureaucracy; it was an understandable impulse. But if medicine becomes unavailable to the lower and former middle class, that dynamic will change. People who can be involved in the system only as meat will have no particular reason to care if it keeps working.
