Horrifying organ donation article

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:13:11 — You are a relentless propaganda machine. Give it a rest.

This thread is not about your “emotional discomfort”. It’s about the greed to increase the use of organs of people who aren’t dead.

Yes, those greedy attempts to save tens of thousands of lives each year in the US alone. Of which we could save more if not for people like you spreading misinformation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/organ-transplants-donors-alive.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YE8.4Wof.6bugeMQGmcIs&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Am betting the American Medical Association is very angry with the cardiologists who wrote this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband works in cardiac surgery and plans to take his name off the registry. He reports that the company who arranges the donations regularly disregards family wishes to continue care. If your name is on the list, that supersedes your next of kin etc. and they move aggressively. I understand why they do it, but it’s not what I want for myself or my family members.

Thank you for sharing this. Our young people are the most at risk for quickly getting their organs removed before they’re dead.

They’re shot up with paralyzing drugs so they can’t shout out to stop the harvesting process.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband works in cardiac surgery and plans to take his name off the registry. He reports that the company who arranges the donations regularly disregards family wishes to continue care. If your name is on the list, that supersedes your next of kin etc. and they move aggressively. I understand why they do it, but it’s not what I want for myself or my family members.

Thank you for sharing this. Our young people are the most at risk for quickly getting their organs removed before they’re dead.

They’re shot up with paralyzing drugs so they can’t shout out to stop the harvesting process.

I would find people like the PP fascinating if it wasn't for the fact that they are directly contributing to needless deaths by trying to scare others. You have to wonder what happened to them to cause them to think like that.

[Anonymous]

We’ve been massively duped, if not highly pressured into agreeing to this scam. Warn your loved ones.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I didn’t realize that these ghouls patrolled the hospital hallways. I’m taking off the donor designation on my license.

Pediatric hospitals too. It shouldn’t be legal, but it is. They’re harassing families and trying to not only get the families to donate, but to do so on their timeline (I recall a case of a braindead child, where the organ procurement crew told the family to wait until the patient experienced cardiac death, rather than allow the family to discontinue organ support. I can’t recall what the family chose, but remember the organ team feeling like circling vultures.)

That’s horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

You do understand that in that circumstance there were kids at several other hospitals who were going to die without those organs, right? Do you really think it is horrifying to harvest organs from a dead body in order to save the lives of other people?

Kids will now live who would previously have been unethically harvested. That is a win.

That's simply false. There's no evidence of organ harvesting where the donor has any hope of regaining meaningful brain function.

So you didn’t read the NYT article.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I didn’t realize that these ghouls patrolled the hospital hallways. I’m taking off the donor designation on my license.

Pediatric hospitals too. It shouldn’t be legal, but it is. They’re harassing families and trying to not only get the families to donate, but to do so on their timeline (I recall a case of a braindead child, where the organ procurement crew told the family to wait until the patient experienced cardiac death, rather than allow the family to discontinue organ support. I can’t recall what the family chose, but remember the organ team feeling like circling vultures.)

That’s horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

You do understand that in that circumstance there were kids at several other hospitals who were going to die without those organs, right? Do you really think it is horrifying to harvest organs from a dead body in order to save the lives of other people?

I don’t think badgering grieving parents is anything but horrifying.

I also think folks may overestimate how miraculous organ transplant is.

Should anything terrible come to my family, I would insist that organ vultures not be allowed in the room until we asked. Where I was, the docs/nurses had to let the organ folks in (and organ folks often got their info messed up, and asked parents of a kid dying of metastatic cancer for consent etc) and they would pressure parents. Sometimes families wanted an extra day of technological support to allow family to visit the bedside. These vultures would pressure parents to harvest organs ASAP bc donation after cardiac death is more limited than after brain death.

It is not the responsibility of parents who lost a (usually previously healthy) child to some tragic cause to save others.

It can be an incredible gift and a powerful decision that can also help the grieving parents. It should never be coerced. Grieving folks shouldn’t be bullied.

Absolutely. Well said. The ghouls pressuring grieving families to end their children’s lives early are horrific.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I didn’t realize that these ghouls patrolled the hospital hallways. I’m taking off the donor designation on my license.

Pediatric hospitals too. It shouldn’t be legal, but it is. They’re harassing families and trying to not only get the families to donate, but to do so on their timeline (I recall a case of a braindead child, where the organ procurement crew told the family to wait until the patient experienced cardiac death, rather than allow the family to discontinue organ support. I can’t recall what the family chose, but remember the organ team feeling like circling vultures.)

That’s horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

You do understand that in that circumstance there were kids at several other hospitals who were going to die without those organs, right? Do you really think it is horrifying to harvest organs from a dead body in order to save the lives of other people?

I don’t think badgering grieving parents is anything but horrifying.

I also think folks may overestimate how miraculous organ transplant is.

Should anything terrible come to my family, I would insist that organ vultures not be allowed in the room until we asked. Where I was, the docs/nurses had to let the organ folks in (and organ folks often got their info messed up, and asked parents of a kid dying of metastatic cancer for consent etc) and they would pressure parents. Sometimes families wanted an extra day of technological support to allow family to visit the bedside. These vultures would pressure parents to harvest organs ASAP bc donation after cardiac death is more limited than after brain death.

It is not the responsibility of parents who lost a (usually previously healthy) child to some tragic cause to save others.

It can be an incredible gift and a powerful decision that can also help the grieving parents. It should never be coerced. Grieving folks shouldn’t be bullied.

No one is being "coerced," but it is a decision that needs to be made in a narrow window of time that happens to coincide with one fo the most difficult times in those individuals' lives. It's obviously better if they've thought about it before and know what they want to do. But if they didn't, or they don't, the decisions still need to be made within that time window. And several other lives hang in the balance.

Is that uncomfortable? Yes, I'm sure it is. Though, having been in that situation, the discomfort of questions from hospital staff pales in comparison to the pain of losing a loved one.

And I've been on the other side of that situation, too. Watching a loved one dying from a failing organ is also incredibly painful. And I can't fathom anyone taking the position that saving lives isn't worth some emotional discomfort.

You are a ghoul. “Some emotional discomfort”??! You are talking about people’s last days with their dying children. My God, every time you post I want to send the NYT article to everyone I know and urge them to drop themselves from the registry.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I didn’t realize that these ghouls patrolled the hospital hallways. I’m taking off the donor designation on my license.

Pediatric hospitals too. It shouldn’t be legal, but it is. They’re harassing families and trying to not only get the families to donate, but to do so on their timeline (I recall a case of a braindead child, where the organ procurement crew told the family to wait until the patient experienced cardiac death, rather than allow the family to discontinue organ support. I can’t recall what the family chose, but remember the organ team feeling like circling vultures.)

That’s horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

You do understand that in that circumstance there were kids at several other hospitals who were going to die without those organs, right? Do you really think it is horrifying to harvest organs from a dead body in order to save the lives of other people?

I don’t think badgering grieving parents is anything but horrifying.

I also think folks may overestimate how miraculous organ transplant is.

Should anything terrible come to my family, I would insist that organ vultures not be allowed in the room until we asked. Where I was, the docs/nurses had to let the organ folks in (and organ folks often got their info messed up, and asked parents of a kid dying of metastatic cancer for consent etc) and they would pressure parents. Sometimes families wanted an extra day of technological support to allow family to visit the bedside. These vultures would pressure parents to harvest organs ASAP bc donation after cardiac death is more limited than after brain death.

It is not the responsibility of parents who lost a (usually previously healthy) child to some tragic cause to save others.

It can be an incredible gift and a powerful decision that can also help the grieving parents. It should never be coerced. Grieving folks shouldn’t be bullied.

No one is being "coerced," but it is a decision that needs to be made in a narrow window of time that happens to coincide with one fo the most difficult times in those individuals' lives. It's obviously better if they've thought about it before and know what they want to do. But if they didn't, or they don't, the decisions still need to be made within that time window. And several other lives hang in the balance.

Is that uncomfortable? Yes, I'm sure it is. Though, having been in that situation, the discomfort of questions from hospital staff pales in comparison to the pain of losing a loved one.

And I've been on the other side of that situation, too. Watching a loved one dying from a failing organ is also incredibly painful. And I can't fathom anyone taking the position that saving lives isn't worth some emotional discomfort.

Well then, we have people on death row with nice healthy organs. It's only a little emotional discomfort.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I didn’t realize that these ghouls patrolled the hospital hallways. I’m taking off the donor designation on my license.

Pediatric hospitals too. It shouldn’t be legal, but it is. They’re harassing families and trying to not only get the families to donate, but to do so on their timeline (I recall a case of a braindead child, where the organ procurement crew told the family to wait until the patient experienced cardiac death, rather than allow the family to discontinue organ support. I can’t recall what the family chose, but remember the organ team feeling like circling vultures.)

That’s horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

You do understand that in that circumstance there were kids at several other hospitals who were going to die without those organs, right? Do you really think it is horrifying to harvest organs from a dead body in order to save the lives of other people?

I don’t think badgering grieving parents is anything but horrifying.

I also think folks may overestimate how miraculous organ transplant is.

Should anything terrible come to my family, I would insist that organ vultures not be allowed in the room until we asked. Where I was, the docs/nurses had to let the organ folks in (and organ folks often got their info messed up, and asked parents of a kid dying of metastatic cancer for consent etc) and they would pressure parents. Sometimes families wanted an extra day of technological support to allow family to visit the bedside. These vultures would pressure parents to harvest organs ASAP bc donation after cardiac death is more limited than after brain death.

It is not the responsibility of parents who lost a (usually previously healthy) child to some tragic cause to save others.

It can be an incredible gift and a powerful decision that can also help the grieving parents. It should never be coerced. Grieving folks shouldn’t be bullied.

No one is being "coerced," but it is a decision that needs to be made in a narrow window of time that happens to coincide with one fo the most difficult times in those individuals' lives. It's obviously better if they've thought about it before and know what they want to do. But if they didn't, or they don't, the decisions still need to be made within that time window. And several other lives hang in the balance.

Is that uncomfortable? Yes, I'm sure it is. Though, having been in that situation, the discomfort of questions from hospital staff pales in comparison to the pain of losing a loved one.

And I've been on the other side of that situation, too. Watching a loved one dying from a failing organ is also incredibly painful. And I can't fathom anyone taking the position that saving lives isn't worth some emotional discomfort.

You are a ghoul. “Some emotional discomfort”??! You are talking about people’s last days with their dying children. My God, every time you post I want to send the NYT article to everyone I know and urge them to drop themselves from the registry.

How do you think the people feel who are watching their loved ones slowly dying, knowing that their conditions could be treated with an organ transplant? I can tell you haven't been through that.

It's incredible that those other lives mean nothing to you.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I didn’t realize that these ghouls patrolled the hospital hallways. I’m taking off the donor designation on my license.

Pediatric hospitals too. It shouldn’t be legal, but it is. They’re harassing families and trying to not only get the families to donate, but to do so on their timeline (I recall a case of a braindead child, where the organ procurement crew told the family to wait until the patient experienced cardiac death, rather than allow the family to discontinue organ support. I can’t recall what the family chose, but remember the organ team feeling like circling vultures.)

That’s horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

You do understand that in that circumstance there were kids at several other hospitals who were going to die without those organs, right? Do you really think it is horrifying to harvest organs from a dead body in order to save the lives of other people?

I don’t think badgering grieving parents is anything but horrifying.

I also think folks may overestimate how miraculous organ transplant is.

Should anything terrible come to my family, I would insist that organ vultures not be allowed in the room until we asked. Where I was, the docs/nurses had to let the organ folks in (and organ folks often got their info messed up, and asked parents of a kid dying of metastatic cancer for consent etc) and they would pressure parents. Sometimes families wanted an extra day of technological support to allow family to visit the bedside. These vultures would pressure parents to harvest organs ASAP bc donation after cardiac death is more limited than after brain death.

It is not the responsibility of parents who lost a (usually previously healthy) child to some tragic cause to save others.

It can be an incredible gift and a powerful decision that can also help the grieving parents. It should never be coerced. Grieving folks shouldn’t be bullied.

No one is being "coerced," but it is a decision that needs to be made in a narrow window of time that happens to coincide with one fo the most difficult times in those individuals' lives. It's obviously better if they've thought about it before and know what they want to do. But if they didn't, or they don't, the decisions still need to be made within that time window. And several other lives hang in the balance.

Is that uncomfortable? Yes, I'm sure it is. Though, having been in that situation, the discomfort of questions from hospital staff pales in comparison to the pain of losing a loved one.

And I've been on the other side of that situation, too. Watching a loved one dying from a failing organ is also incredibly painful. And I can't fathom anyone taking the position that saving lives isn't worth some emotional discomfort.

You are a ghoul. “Some emotional discomfort”??! You are talking about people’s last days with their dying children. My God, every time you post I want to send the NYT article to everyone I know and urge them to drop themselves from the registry.

How do you think the people feel who are watching their loved ones slowly dying, knowing that their conditions could be treated with an organ transplant? I can tell you haven't been through that.

It's incredible that those other lives mean nothing to you.

^This is industry talk - Hurry up and be brain dead so we can reap the profits from selling your organs to someone else really rich, or has elite insurance.
The medical monsters need to f’off already.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I didn’t realize that these ghouls patrolled the hospital hallways. I’m taking off the donor designation on my license.

Pediatric hospitals too. It shouldn’t be legal, but it is. They’re harassing families and trying to not only get the families to donate, but to do so on their timeline (I recall a case of a braindead child, where the organ procurement crew told the family to wait until the patient experienced cardiac death, rather than allow the family to discontinue organ support. I can’t recall what the family chose, but remember the organ team feeling like circling vultures.)

That’s horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

You do understand that in that circumstance there were kids at several other hospitals who were going to die without those organs, right? Do you really think it is horrifying to harvest organs from a dead body in order to save the lives of other people?

Kids will now live who would previously have been unethically harvested. That is a win.

That's simply false. There's no evidence of organ harvesting where the donor has any hope of regaining meaningful brain function.

So you didn’t read the NYT article.

I don't think you read it. There was no scenario where a still-living patient could have their organs harvested. These were cases where people were removed from life support. Organs aren't harvested until after the heart stops.

The stories in the article ultimately demonstrate that. For example, it included cases where patients' hearts didn't stop as quickly as expected. They still died, but ultimately their organs weren't harvested because of the rules and procedures around d organ donation.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I didn’t realize that these ghouls patrolled the hospital hallways. I’m taking off the donor designation on my license.

Pediatric hospitals too. It shouldn’t be legal, but it is. They’re harassing families and trying to not only get the families to donate, but to do so on their timeline (I recall a case of a braindead child, where the organ procurement crew told the family to wait until the patient experienced cardiac death, rather than allow the family to discontinue organ support. I can’t recall what the family chose, but remember the organ team feeling like circling vultures.)

That’s horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

You do understand that in that circumstance there were kids at several other hospitals who were going to die without those organs, right? Do you really think it is horrifying to harvest organs from a dead body in order to save the lives of other people?

I don’t think badgering grieving parents is anything but horrifying.

I also think folks may overestimate how miraculous organ transplant is.

Should anything terrible come to my family, I would insist that organ vultures not be allowed in the room until we asked. Where I was, the docs/nurses had to let the organ folks in (and organ folks often got their info messed up, and asked parents of a kid dying of metastatic cancer for consent etc) and they would pressure parents. Sometimes families wanted an extra day of technological support to allow family to visit the bedside. These vultures would pressure parents to harvest organs ASAP bc donation after cardiac death is more limited than after brain death.

It is not the responsibility of parents who lost a (usually previously healthy) child to some tragic cause to save others.

It can be an incredible gift and a powerful decision that can also help the grieving parents. It should never be coerced. Grieving folks shouldn’t be bullied.

No one is being "coerced," but it is a decision that needs to be made in a narrow window of time that happens to coincide with one fo the most difficult times in those individuals' lives. It's obviously better if they've thought about it before and know what they want to do. But if they didn't, or they don't, the decisions still need to be made within that time window. And several other lives hang in the balance.

Is that uncomfortable? Yes, I'm sure it is. Though, having been in that situation, the discomfort of questions from hospital staff pales in comparison to the pain of losing a loved one.

And I've been on the other side of that situation, too. Watching a loved one dying from a failing organ is also incredibly painful. And I can't fathom anyone taking the position that saving lives isn't worth some emotional discomfort.

You are a ghoul. “Some emotional discomfort”??! You are talking about people’s last days with their dying children. My God, every time you post I want to send the NYT article to everyone I know and urge them to drop themselves from the registry.

How do you think the people feel who are watching their loved ones slowly dying, knowing that their conditions could be treated with an organ transplant? I can tell you haven't been through that.

It's incredible that those other lives mean nothing to you.

^This is industry talk - Hurry up and be brain dead so we can reap the profits from selling your organs to someone else really rich, or has elite insurance.
The medical monsters need to f’off already.

Says the person who wants 50,000 more people to needlessly die each year. Who's the ghoul?

[Anonymous]

High time for us to get healthy again. Doctors are making us sicker with all their propaganda. There’s no reason why we can’t be at least as healthy as most Europeans are.

European doctors aren’t allowed the profit obsession that exists here. Pharma isn’t allowed to control their entire system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I didn’t realize that these ghouls patrolled the hospital hallways. I’m taking off the donor designation on my license.

Pediatric hospitals too. It shouldn’t be legal, but it is. They’re harassing families and trying to not only get the families to donate, but to do so on their timeline (I recall a case of a braindead child, where the organ procurement crew told the family to wait until the patient experienced cardiac death, rather than allow the family to discontinue organ support. I can’t recall what the family chose, but remember the organ team feeling like circling vultures.)

That’s horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

You do understand that in that circumstance there were kids at several other hospitals who were going to die without those organs, right? Do you really think it is horrifying to harvest organs from a dead body in order to save the lives of other people?

I don’t think badgering grieving parents is anything but horrifying.

I also think folks may overestimate how miraculous organ transplant is.

Should anything terrible come to my family, I would insist that organ vultures not be allowed in the room until we asked. Where I was, the docs/nurses had to let the organ folks in (and organ folks often got their info messed up, and asked parents of a kid dying of metastatic cancer for consent etc) and they would pressure parents. Sometimes families wanted an extra day of technological support to allow family to visit the bedside. These vultures would pressure parents to harvest organs ASAP bc donation after cardiac death is more limited than after brain death.

It is not the responsibility of parents who lost a (usually previously healthy) child to some tragic cause to save others.

It can be an incredible gift and a powerful decision that can also help the grieving parents. It should never be coerced. Grieving folks shouldn’t be bullied.

No one is being "coerced," but it is a decision that needs to be made in a narrow window of time that happens to coincide with one fo the most difficult times in those individuals' lives. It's obviously better if they've thought about it before and know what they want to do. But if they didn't, or they don't, the decisions still need to be made within that time window. And several other lives hang in the balance.

Is that uncomfortable? Yes, I'm sure it is. Though, having been in that situation, the discomfort of questions from hospital staff pales in comparison to the pain of losing a loved one.

And I've been on the other side of that situation, too. Watching a loved one dying from a failing organ is also incredibly painful. And I can't fathom anyone taking the position that saving lives isn't worth some emotional discomfort.

You are a ghoul. “Some emotional discomfort”??! You are talking about people’s last days with their dying children. My God, every time you post I want to send the NYT article to everyone I know and urge them to drop themselves from the registry.

If the people you know are literate, then that isn't going to have the impact you think it is.