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Wolfguard 
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,13:59 |
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You can thank FW for posting Mr. Niven's responce for this one.
What do you think about funding technology that would let us store organs for long periods of time?
This leads into:
What do you think about using the usable body parts of death row inmates to help people that are in need of organs? Basicly harvest their organs and put them into the above mentioned storage as the means of their execution.
Everyone at least knows someone that knows someone that needs a kidney, heart, whatever. As you get older you may need parts. Here would be a way to keep a supply on hand and a way to keep that supply stocked. Since the only way you get a new part is to have someone else die does it matter if it was a car accident or capital punishment?
(shit, now the damm worms are everywhere!
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DRUFER
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,14:33 |
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I like the idea, I think that more states will adopt the death penatly if a use like this comes out of it.
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Nikita
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,15:17 |
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(waking up...)
sounds like a good idea, but there's the danger of higher/wanton levels of death penalty sentencings ...
"we need a (name the organ!, your honor!"
"yea, and (name the inmate/perp)'s (name the orgain again! is a good match for the next person on the transplant list"
"Death penalty!"
though advances in tissue engineering should (hopefully) get to the level where you can grow your own organs ...
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DRUFER
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,15:37 |
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I thought that it would be the other way around:
"We need a (name the organ) your honor!"
"Yeah, and (name the inmate who is already on death row)'s(name the organ) is a perfect match!
And yes, tissue engeneering, and growing organs for transplant would make somthing like this unnecessarry.
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Necromancer
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,16:47 |
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well bob you're appeal is in 10 weeks time but seeing as this guy needs a heart now they've decided to bump forward your sentancing to next tuesday. sorry old chap lifes a bitch aint it.
10 weeks later: aww drat THERE'S that missing piece of evidence we've been needing to prove your innocence.
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demonk
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,16:53 |
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| Quote (DRUFER @ 17 July 2002,07:37) | | And yes, tissue engeneering, and growing organs for transplant would make somthing like this unnecessarry. |
Except that this deals very closely with cloning, with Dubya and the "religious right" would love nothing more than to make completely illegal in all forms. Lift the blanket ban on cloning research, and by time we are all old enough to need transplants, we can just have a new heart grown that would be exactly like our current one, but healthy. Sorry, I'm just a little pissed that no one seems to undertand how much cloning research will help improve life.
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DRUFER
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,17:28 |
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I totally agree with you Demonk, we should be doing this research. I don't mean cloing a person to harvenst their organs, but if my heart or somthing goes kaput one day it would be a hell of a lot eaiser to just grow me a new heart, instead of putting me on life support, and putting me on some damn waiting list for a heart, and then going thru the trouble of finding me a good match.
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CatKnight
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,19:26 |
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an easy way to cure the problem of replacement organ shortages is to give you the right to sell your organs. as it is now, you can't. either they rot in your body when you die or you give them away for free. since there is no incentive to give them away, a lot of people rather keep them when the die. if you were able to sell them for $x000 dollars though, everyone and their mother would be selling their organs. poof, no more shortage.
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DRUFER
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,19:51 |
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sure. But can you garuntee a perfect match that will get there in time to save the person?
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CatKnight
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,21:38 |
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that's a moot point they don't do that now either
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