12-30-2011, 10:10 PM
I have this fear of being chopped up for parts if I'm listed as an organ donor. I guess it just comes from my experience of even kids being exploited for financial means in cruel ways by society (including by doctors).
It's not that I fear organ thieves will ambush me, but if I got injured and taken to a hospital then instead of being saved I might be allowed to die (or even killed) so that a desperately needed organ can be harvested for big bucks by someone wealthy enough to not be constrained to waiting lists (and there HAVE been doctors busted for things like this). I know that the chances of this happening are so extremely low that I probably should worry more about an asteroid hitting Earth, but I just can't shake the fear of it.
It's not that I fear organ thieves will ambush me, but if I got injured and taken to a hospital then instead of being saved I might be allowed to die (or even killed) so that a desperately needed organ can be harvested for big bucks by someone wealthy enough to not be constrained to waiting lists (and there HAVE been doctors busted for things like this). I know that the chances of this happening are so extremely low that I probably should worry more about an asteroid hitting Earth, but I just can't shake the fear of it.