http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm Oh, yes, kiddies, we really believe it's about highlighting the shortage of organ donors, don't we? Just when you think reality TV can't get any worse, along comes somthing like this... I think the producers should become organ donors.
Well, put it this way, kids dress up and play as pirates. They don't cut up bodies and sell internal organs for fun.
I saw this on BBC world news this morning, and....wow. Everybody who is involved in producing this show should be killed and harvested, IMHO!
Given their probable level of drug ingestion, no. Those organs aren't likely to be useful for anything much other than compost for shrubs you hate. Ok, ok: compost 'em and special delivery to the White House, stat!
As soon as I get a chance, I'm signing up to donate every possible organ in my body (if I die young). So... say I die in a car crash next year. They'll take my lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, hell, even my intestines, stomach, and face if the want! Leave me an empty shell. Won't need my body anyway once I'm dead. As for the TV show... Disgusting. Tells people all the wrong things about organ donation. But I think it makes a point. Real life is very much like that: One donor, 3 people who need the organ. Can't split the organ into 3 pieces and hope it works! 2 of the patients have to die because there's a shortage.
i have to say i'm not the least bit offended by this, sure its pretty crass, but well, thats what modern TV is. ought to drive home the pain of wanting an organ transplant, and could be very entertaining in a really twisted way. i mean, if i was the terminally ill person i'd be totting up just what sexual favours i'd figure my kidney was worth....
Your lying in a hospital bed from a bad car accident. The doctors don't know if you will live or not. Your an organ donor and they are short on kidneys. Not a position I would want to be in. Plus, Its just as suspected all along, the dutch are totally devoid of any morality what so ever. That goes for the whole benelux region right in there.
Oy vey. Whether or not you think this should be legal, why in the world would it be entertaining or good television? Anyone who gets his jollies watching people grovel for a kidney is one coldhearted motherfucker.
Let's hear them! Seriously, Albert is right -- this seems despicable, but there is nothing wrong with it. So the recipient candidates have to humiliate themselves, but they get something spectacular in return. If it offends your sensibilities, don't watch it. I won't. But I can't pretend I see anything logically wrong with it.
Nothing logically wrong with it? How about the fact that it's exploiting human misery and desperation, in return for publicity and advertising revenue? Typically, two people would receive a kidney each, and the decision would be made in private, on clinical grounds. Here, one person will receive both, and the decision will be made in public, in the manner of a popularity contest. I can't think of many things more disgusting.
So long as the contestants must choose to participate, and I must choose to watch, whether or not anyone considers it "good" television is irrelevant. Likewise, my kidneys belong incontravertably to me. If I choose to sell one of them, and I've got both a willing surgeon and a willing customer, whether or not anyone else approves of the transaction is irrelevant. If someone else finds themselves in an exploitative situation, that's their problem, and of no bearing on my right to sell my body parts.
