Dragonhead, who gets the money from the "donated" organ of the executed prisoner? I'll bet it wasn't his relatives.

I hope Paul Lee realises that a prisoner (who may not have been a criminal, possibly just a political activist) may have been killed to iorder to make noney from selling his organs, so his transplant makes him guilty of cold blooded murder.

I am sure that Mr. Lee took all that into account, BK .... but, what were his choices?

1. Live.

2. Die.

What would you choose - 1 or 2, BK?

One possible solution would be to opt out of donation upon death. The projected increase in organs would halt this moral dilema. I cannot see any arguable objection to organ donation in a country where we freely donate blood

The "opt out" approach presumes that the State is entitled to one's body after death, unless one specifically directs otherwise. I am not comfortable with establishing that precedent. The government already confiscates half of one's estate at death, will they confiscate one's organs as well?

#4 Could see many people not happy with that option.

Imagine - you are in hospital, seriously ill after, say, a car crash.
A VIP, (for argument's sake, lets say a member of the Royal family, or a high-up in the Government) collapses and needs a heart transplant.

Yours fits the bill.

Would you be absolutely sure that you would be given all possible treatment to ensure your survival; or would there always be the doubt that the nod would come "from above" that some things be left undone, "in the national interest"?

Can I suggest eBay??

#6 Nell. They'd whip your heart out before you even realised it.

The Chinese have got this right for once. We could save hundreds of innocent lives and solve prison overcrowding quite easily.

IT IS NOT LEGAL FOR AN ORGAN DONOR IN THE UNITED STATES TO ACCEPT MONEY FOR HIS DONATION. THE BROKERS - READ REAPERS - ARE THE ONES MAKING THE MONEY. IF THE DONORS OR THEIR SURVIVING FAMILIES COULD RECOUP SOME OF THE MONEY FOR ORGAN DONATIONS, I THINK THERE WOULD BE MORE AVAILABLE.

CIAO,

HARVEY S.