Organ Donation Tarnished by Scandals
Readers of this blog are no doubt aware of my opposition to most organ donation and transplantation. To be specific, I consider the harvesting of organs from corpses and their subsequent re-use to be morally abhorrent. I don’t think it should be illegal, but I do my best to oppose it and to persuade others not to participate in it.
In that spirit, then, here are some organ donation scandals. Zach Dunlap was pronounced dead by physicians eager to steal his organs: luckily for him, his relatives noticed that he wasn’t actually dead and he recovered and walked out of the hospital. He heard the physicians saying that he was dead. Rather poor medical job there, guys.
Then there’s the disturbing case of Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, who is
accused of using drugs to speed the death
—in plain
English, murdering—a physically & mentally retarded patient
in order to take his organs.
Human organ transplantation is wrong, regardless, but even were it right these incidents would argue for much tighter supervision of the system.
