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Re:Report on forced organ harvesting in China by sam_lowry_ on Saturday June 22, 2019 @10:17AM (#20249679)
Some countries implement an opt-out system. If you do not want your body to be reused after you die, you have to declare it in advance.

This is hugely beneficial for patients.

Now, even this hugely emotional article does not talk about murder.

Re:Report on forced organ harvesting in China by Nextgrid on Saturday June 22, 2019 @10:19AM (#20249697)
It’s one thing to harvest organs if the patient dies of accidents/natural causes, and personally I am in favour of the opt-out system.

It’s a whole other thing of killing the patient on purpose to harvest their organs.

Re:Report on forced organ harvesting in China by sam_lowry_ on Saturday June 22, 2019 @10:27AM (#20249744)
At least several thousand people are executed in China annually. Can their bodies be used?
Re:Report on forced organ harvesting in China by Nextgrid on Saturday June 22, 2019 @10:29AM (#20249759)
Wouldn’t it be worth investigating why they are executed? Given this organ trade is going on I wouldn’t be surprised if their “justice” system is being literally trigger-happy because they benefit from the resulting organs being made available.
Re:Report on forced organ harvesting in China by fsloth on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:57PM (#20250541)
Executed in a systen where law is not supposed to be impartial but only a tool among many to upkeep the states power. I don't think humans where worth much after death before modern organ transplantation. State arbiter gets more reasons to less leniency when there is a profit to be had from the execution.

In an already 'unfair' system adding profit motive to executions can only worsen the humanitarian result.