I’ve been a registered organ donor since I was 17…so I am probably biased, but…
I think, providing the Belgian Government/health service is good at making everyone aware of this basic fact, I don’t have a problem with it. Statistically speaking, few people are registered donors, the more the merrier!
The only issue I can see with this is kids, ie, kid is adamant he/she doesn’t want their organs donated post-death & they aren’t yet aware of the ‘presumed consent’.
If you’re not willing to donate your organs, then you shouldn’t be allowed on an organ waiting list if you need one, especially when they’re in such short supply imo.
I watched a friend die for want of a kidney transplant, so perhaps I’m little biased here.
This doctor at Wake Forest University, IIRC, has started 3D printing of organs. He has a kid who he did a bladder for. I think more complex organs that secrete hormones, and aren’t simply “vessels”, so-to-speak, are proving to be more difficult to create, but that’s just something I extrapolated from the video. Really cool stuff though.
I myself am a registered organ donor. I have no problem with helping others to live after I leave this world. I would have a problem if my body was used to study something in a medical university, or anything of that nature. Therefore based on the initial presentation of this law, I have no problem.
On a tangent of the topic, how many of these diseases would be one hundred percent curable with adult stem cell therapy? The need for organ transplants would then plummet and these shortages simply wouldn’t exist.
This doctor at Wake Forest University, IIRC, has started 3D printing of organs. He has a kid who he did a bladder for. I think more complex organs that secrete hormones, and aren’t simply “vessels”, so-to-speak, are proving to be more difficult to create, but that’s just something I extrapolated from the video. Really cool stuff though.[/quote]
Human flesh is obviously a collective ressource.
I’m all for it.
Actually, i think we should go further : legalize anthropophagy and give unused organs and body parts to feed the poor children of Africa.
It’s a shame that all these proteins are wasted.
[quote]kamui wrote:
Human flesh is obviously a collective ressource.
I’m all for it.
Actually, i think we should go further : legalize anthropophagy and give unused organs and body parts to feed the poor children of Africa.
It’s a shame that all these proteins are wasted.