Sunday 11 April 2010

Organ Donation cock-up.

Organ Donor Error

The NHS identified 21 cases in which the wrong organs may have been taken from donors.

Now.

This...Is bullshit. Once your brain ceases to function, you no longer give a shit about where your organs end up. May as well use them to help keep the sick and infirm living alive.

The hue and cry has been raised, and all the usual crappy arguments are trotted out often involving religion or having confidence in knowing that your wishes are being adhered to. Listen people, you're dead...You would not give even the slightest toss if somebody crudely animated your corpse using string and nails, and paraded you through the streets as a gruesome rotting marionette, you'd be dead. Rather like last night, in between the dreaming, you cannot remember the black bits because nothing happened in them that registered...Ditto that thing before you were born, that's a nothing. You'd have entered the same state.

Naturally, religion or the icky feeling people have about death often prevents them from thinking logically about organ harvesting, and imparts an almost selfish urge to hang onto your bits. But using the power to look ahead that humans have...You'll either be condemning those useful organs to becoming ash, or mouldering away into a stinking mass of chemicals that nourish myriad flora and fauna.

After my death, you can do what you like with my body. The more humerous the better. I'd like to be videoed in my slow decay and the resultant daily display used as a kind of macabre test card slotted between episodes of Strictly Come Dancing and whatever other dire Saturday/Sunday night show is scheduled for after. That way I can better humanity by persueding people not to watch the box, but to instead hace some kind of social life because I remind them of their own short time on Earth, and also because most people find a decomposing corpse repugnant (except for those weird bastards in Africa who dig up their relatives every year and parade them round for all to pay tribute to!) and would rather go out somewhere instead.

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