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Oregon Death Row Inmate wants To Donate His Organs

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Two questions: (poll is multiple choice)

1. Should death row inmates be allowed to donate organs?

2. Would you accept a donation from a death row inmate?

Here is the story:

NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) – Oregon death row inmate Christian Longo wants to donate a kidney to a Newberg man so desperate he’s been standing on a corner with a sign asking for an organ.

Longo says he and other inmates would be interested in donating organs if they were allowed.

In 2003, Longo was sentenced to death for killing his wife and three children on the Oregon coast. He has become an advocate for inmate organ donation and wanted to donate his organs after his execution. Gov. John Kitzhaber’s moratorium on executions in 2011 halted that idea.
Death row inmate wants to donate organs | KOIN.com
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pbrauer said:
Two questions: (poll is multiple choice)

1. Should death row inmates be allowed to donate organs?

2. Would you accept a donation from a death row inmate?

Here is the story:

NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) – Oregon death row inmate Christian Longo wants to donate a kidney to a Newberg man so desperate he’s been standing on a corner with a sign asking for an organ.

Longo says he and other inmates would be interested in donating organs if they were allowed.

In 2003, Longo was sentenced to death for killing his wife and three children on the Oregon coast. He has become an advocate for inmate organ donation and wanted to donate his organs after his execution. Gov. John Kitzhaber’s moratorium on executions in 2011 halted that idea.
Death row inmate wants to donate organs | KOIN.com
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If I need a pair of kidneys I'm not going to bitch about the donor being a jerk.
 
pbrauer said:
Not the inmate, its the man who wants the kidney.
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Yeah? And?

Even if it was the other way around, I'd say yeah. However, in this case, I care less about the morality of the donor as I do about the organ that's going to save my life.
 
pbrauer said:
Two questions: (poll is multiple choice)

1. Should death row inmates be allowed to donate organs?

2. Would you accept a donation from a death row inmate?

Here is the story:

NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) – Oregon death row inmate Christian Longo wants to donate a kidney to a Newberg man so desperate he’s been standing on a corner with a sign asking for an organ.

Longo says he and other inmates would be interested in donating organs if they were allowed.

In 2003, Longo was sentenced to death for killing his wife and three children on the Oregon coast. He has become an advocate for inmate organ donation and wanted to donate his organs after his execution. Gov. John Kitzhaber’s moratorium on executions in 2011 halted that idea.
Death row inmate wants to donate organs | KOIN.com
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I think it's a wonderful idea and can't imagine why there'd be any resistance to it at all. In fact, I can't imagine why it isn't available to them.

The organ donation system is so screwy, in my opinion. The only person who doesn't make a tidy piece of change is the organ donor. Everybody else? The doctors involved, the nursing staff, the hospitals, the organ donation bureau, etc.? Cha-Ching!!
 
No because I don't want to become a killer myself and clearly that is how this works.
 
pbrauer said:
Two questions: (poll is multiple choice)

1. Should death row inmates be allowed to donate organs?

2. Would you accept a donation from a death row inmate?

Here is the story:

NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) – Oregon death row inmate Christian Longo wants to donate a kidney to a Newberg man so desperate he’s been standing on a corner with a sign asking for an organ.

Longo says he and other inmates would be interested in donating organs if they were allowed.

In 2003, Longo was sentenced to death for killing his wife and three children on the Oregon coast. He has become an advocate for inmate organ donation and wanted to donate his organs after his execution. Gov. John Kitzhaber’s moratorium on executions in 2011 halted that idea.
Death row inmate wants to donate organs | KOIN.com
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No. For one, the conditions they are living in don't exactly speak to organ health to begin with. Two, their organs will be useless after death (lethal injection doesn't leave the organs in a transferable state). Three, it's likely a delay tactic or a move for greater priviledges or money.
 
While I'm not opposed I wouldn't want to be exuberant about it. In China the first thing that a person arrested for a capital crime gets is a physical exam. If they pass the trial is put at the top of the list and when convicted the execution is prompt so that the organs can be harvested and distributed to their party elites. As harsh as our govt in America has become on some issues I wouldn't want to encourage that direction.


MaggieD said:
I think it's a wonderful idea and can't imagine why there'd be any resistance to it at all. In fact, I can't imagine why it isn't available to them.

The organ donation system is so screwy, in my opinion. The only person who doesn't make a tidy piece of change is the organ donor. Everybody else? The doctors involved, the nursing staff, the hospitals, the organ donation bureau, etc.? Cha-Ching!!
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CalGun said:
As harsh as our govt in America has become on some issues I wouldn't want to encourage that direction.
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Actually, that's a piss-poor reason to allow people to die for want of a kidney. Our organ transplant system is pretty secure. If it isn't? Make it so.
 
pbrauer said:
Two questions: (poll is multiple choice)

1. Should death row inmates be allowed to donate organs?

2. Would you accept a donation from a death row inmate?

Here is the story:

NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) – Oregon death row inmate Christian Longo wants to donate a kidney to a Newberg man so desperate he’s been standing on a corner with a sign asking for an organ.

Longo says he and other inmates would be interested in donating organs if they were allowed.

In 2003, Longo was sentenced to death for killing his wife and three children on the Oregon coast. He has become an advocate for inmate organ donation and wanted to donate his organs after his execution. Gov. John Kitzhaber’s moratorium on executions in 2011 halted that idea.
Death row inmate wants to donate organs | KOIN.com
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I have no issue with this.
 
People all to often refuse to look at unintended consequences. I mean besides Sarah Palin who knew there would be a govt issued death panel?


MaggieD said:
Actually, that's a piss-poor reason to allow people to die for want of a kidney. Our organ transplant system is pretty secure. If it isn't? Make it so.
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CalGun said:
People all to often refuse to look at unintended consequences. I mean besides Sarah Palin who knew there would be a govt issued death panel?
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If she did, she was joined by a bunch of conspiracy hackers.
 
pbrauer said:
Two questions: (poll is multiple choice)

1. Should death row inmates be allowed to donate organs?

2. Would you accept a donation from a death row inmate?

Here is the story:

NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) – Oregon death row inmate Christian Longo wants to donate a kidney to a Newberg man so desperate he’s been standing on a corner with a sign asking for an organ.

Longo says he and other inmates would be interested in donating organs if they were allowed.

In 2003, Longo was sentenced to death for killing his wife and three children on the Oregon coast. He has become an advocate for inmate organ donation and wanted to donate his organs after his execution. Gov. John Kitzhaber’s moratorium on executions in 2011 halted that idea.
Death row inmate wants to donate organs | KOIN.com
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Of course, he should be allowed to donate organs, and, were I in need of a kidney, of course I'd accept one from a convicted killer. His kidneys didn't kill anyone, after all. What's the difference?
 
Seems like a no-brainer, to me. What possible reason is there to disallow these people from donating? And anyone who would care about the source of an organ that is going to save their life is probably too crazy to make good use of it anyway.
 
If the donor is suitable, why not make organ donation one of the methods of execution for Capital crimes.
It'll test the sincerity of guys like Longo and it'll piss off a whole bunch of the others on death row.
 
As long as the organ was removed prior to the death sentence being carried out, and as long as this action has no bearing on the murderers sentence, then great, do it.

I don't see why saving a life through transplant should be stopped because of who the donor is. If the organ is compatible, do it.
 
Yes, they should be allowed but only to either family or people who know that they are receiving organs from an executed murderer.
 
They shouldn't have any choice about it at all. They should be mandatory donors.

Anyone dumb enough to reject a life saving organ simply because the donor was a convicted killer is definitely too stupid to waste such an organ on (too stupid to be allowed to live, in fact) and thus they should be banned from receiving any organs from anyone.
 
MaggieD said:
I think it's a wonderful idea and can't imagine why there'd be any resistance to it at all. In fact, I can't imagine why it isn't available to them.

The organ donation system is so screwy, in my opinion. The only person who doesn't make a tidy piece of change is the organ donor. Everybody else? The doctors involved, the nursing staff, the hospitals, the organ donation bureau, etc.? Cha-Ching!!
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Agreed, but it has to do maybe with how to execute him. You can't execute someone by poisoning them (the needle) and maybe still use the organs.
 
joko104 said:
Agreed, but it has to do maybe with how to execute him. You can't execute someone by poisoning them (the needle) and maybe still use the organs.
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Excellent point.
 
joko104 said:
Agreed, but it has to do maybe with how to execute him. You can't execute someone by poisoning them (the needle) and maybe still use the organs.
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hanging is the best possible solution then since the guillotine is not legal in the USA

electrocution, poison gas (brutally painful) firing squad and lethal injection are all ruinous of organs. Hanging not at all
 
RiverDad said:
Every rationed care system has a death panel system.
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Saying that Obamacare has a death panel system is ridiculous. And thank God! that every healthcare system in the world has rationed care.
 
joko104 said:
Agreed, but it has to do maybe with how to execute him. You can't execute someone by poisoning them (the needle) and maybe still use the organs.
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They can harvest the organs while under anesthesia then after the surgery, they can carry out the execution before he wakes up. Gosh, that sounds morbid! :shock:

Another concern would be exposing the recipient to communicable infections like hepatitis and HIV. Former prison inmates cannot donate blood I think due to the prevalence of prison rape. If they can be sure the organs are free from disease, I think its a great idea for the condemned to leave this world having done something good for humanity.
 
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