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Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France by raesene9 on Monday January 02, 2017 @12:52PM (#13302851)
nope I'm saying that one is as easy or indeed easier than another. Once you assume an immoral authority has control over patient care it's frankly easier and less risky for them just to remove organs without patient consent after death, than deliberately give poor care to hasten the patient's demise.
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Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France by jlg23 on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:09PM (#13303021)
a) My patient might be dead by the time the donor dies, less profit for me.

b) "deliberately poor care" or "generous amounts of painkillers"? The alternative phrasing is exactly how assisted suicide works in societies where it is not legal.

And here some story reported in 2012, in Germany (English article, though): http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/organ-transplant...

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Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France by alendit on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @02:55AM (#13307526)
Did you read the article? Patients were pushed to the top of the list, no donor was given subpar treatment, that would be murder.
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