Organ Donation, Blankets, and Cockroaches

So the Chinese are devising a nationwide organ-donation system, I hear. This they are doing to put the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners to rest.

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They execute more people in China than the rest of the world put together. According to Amnesty International, 1,718 people were executed in 2008. Also, China Daily, Chinese government-run newspaper, says executed prisoners make up 65 percent of the organ donors in China.

Now why should they let go off such a goldmine? Assuming that the Chinese know who to send to a penitentiary, those prisoners need to pay back to the society. And what better way to achieve this than by using the inmates for what they are good for. My only concern is the innocent inmates going to the gallows, which is more likely true than not (plenty of evidence on www.organharvestinvestigation.net, if you're curious).

So, organ donation may go up in China with this new system in place, but the executions will continue unabated, I reckon. Human Rights Watch researcher Nicholas Bequelin shares my opinion and even believes that harvesting of organs from prisoners is “an incentive to execute people" for the Chinese.

Next, I think there’s plenty of percentage in donating organs for law-abiding citizens too. It’s like if you’re no longer going to use that blanket (or sell it) for good, why not give it to someone who needs it? I know, as a form of life, humans are petty and perverted. Most of us won’t help others out of their misery; “what’s it to me?” sums it up. Some of us perverted ones even take pleasure in others’ pain.

But if you are one of those ‘sensitive’ types who understand the meaning of compassion then it makes good sense, I’d say. Plus, your grieving family will take comfort in the fact that your heart or liver or kidney is still alive and is helping another human live (one organ and tissue donor can save or improve 50 lives, they tell me). This, in turn, will likely make you die in comfort.

The good thing about being dead is that you do not feel any pain, or miss any missing parts. Also, after they take out the organs they seal you back good; so if you are worrying about not looking good or being in right shape, rest assured.

And if you like to reach heavens above in one piece, trust you me, there’s nothing after you’re dead. I know it’s hard to swallow, but when you’re dead, you’re dead as a dead cockroach. If a cockroach has no afterlife, what makes you think you do? All these talks of souls, heaven & hell, God and afterlife, leave them for the popes and gurus of the world.

By Harpreet Bhagrath

The writer is the Chief Editor at themoneytimes.com

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