Stories of people being killed because hospitals make more money on selling their organs than on saving them have been swirling on the internet for years.
The coronacircus plandemic has shown that medical doctors are selected based on obedience and greed, and nothing else.
My driver's license, and my spouse's, shows that we have opted OUT of being an organ donor. We do not want to be murdered by those whose duty is to help us. I am also taking the opportunity in conversation, whenever the subject comes up, to advise others against being an organ donor.
I recently changed my status to non-donor. I used to love knowing that my body might help another person after it could not help me. But things have changed. Opting out now seems more humane.
That’s a smart move, but there are other good reasons, maybe even better reasons, to opt out of the organ donation system. First, the donor’s estate is given no monetary compensation for the deceased’s organs. The problem with that arrangement—philosophically—is that the donator’s contribution is rendered to then have no objective value. That is, the value of any good or service can only be established when exposed to a competitive free market. (For all anyone knows, these organs may be worth millions to the donor’s estate). But the medical profession obfuscates this fact because they don’t want donated organs to go to the highest bidder which would tend to be the wealthy. But wait, if those who could not otherwise afford a fair market price for a donor organ are nevertheless allowed to receive one, then the transaction is based on charity—at least from the perspective of the donor. Okay, so if the medical profession has determined that charity is good enough for the goose, how about the gander? Are doctors performing these services for free (and I don’t mean “non-profit”, I mean FREE). How about the hospitals? Are the hospitals providing these services for free? How about the drug companies that make the anti-rejection drugs that must be administered over a lifetime? Are those drugs provided free of charge? How about the taxpayers who foot the bills for these ultra-expensive, often-subsidized services? Or those who are already paying a fortune to belong (often under government compulsion) to an insurance risk-pool that provides multi-million dollar transplant services? It seems like everyone is asked for altruistic sacrifice except anyone associated with the medical profession. Does that seem just? Secondly, if medical professionals are incapable of determining when a donor is dead or alive, how can we expect them to fairly determine who does and who does not qualify for an organ in a charity-based selection process? Remember, these are the same snakes who submitted to their profession’s Covid tyranny. When one innocently offers oneself as an organ donor, he or she is supporting the perpetuation of a corrupt system that is in all probability not in their own best interest. Kinda like buying puppies from a puppy mill.
“... in the rush to expand organ transplants, procurement teams have sometimes started too early... before it was fully established.”
This is not surprising in an Age where humans are viewed as Things To Exploit and not as unique and precious and valuable lifeforms. Today, it’s The Body as ‘Thing’. The Body as cash machine. The Body as just so much rock to be mined out of a quarry for the benefit of some vulture corporations-for-profit. In this case, the Human Quarry mined by soulless thieves.
News Flash: The body is not a commodity. The body is not just so-much machinery to be disassembled and sold off like some kind of car parts out of a junkyard. The body is ALIVE... even when death occurs. All subatomic particles are nothing but energy. And everyone has heard how energy can not be destroyed.
The depth of depravity of the ghouls, vultures, thieves and soul-stealing among us is at times astounding. Hard to believe some life forms can be such hideous haters of the living.
So some beloved person has their parts auctioned off so that someone ELSE can live? In what hellish World is that seen as useful process? SOME life is worth something while other lives are worthless? (Some large institutions have long been entirely constructed around this sickly Operating Thought System).
As for this sickly Parts-Harvesting Protocol... one’s mind quickly goes to the Monty Python sketch about burying a cat. It took six hours to bury the cat because... “It Wouldn’t Keep STILL’.
Beyond this parts-harvesting scheme is the even bigger picture of how quickly persons today are now put on the “Hospice Protocol” while under institutional medical care. What is this medical process? Simple. You no longer do a damn thing for the patient. You withhold medicines and pain relief and even food and water. You just let them die... with a little (actually a lot) of help from the useless medical environment around them. (This differs from “Home” hospice protocol.)
Bottom Line: The System sucks. It's dangerous. Be warned if you or someone you love gets caught up in it.
Doctor: “Sorry, he’s dead”.
Family Member: “But they were just now TALKING! I see them MOVING right now!”:
Doctor: “No you don’t. That’s all just meaningless reflex and gurgle. And if you think its more than that... well this is just useless fanciful daydreaming on your part.”
Family Member: “Oh dear! Well, OK. YOU’RE the doctor – I’m not.”
Treasure your life every single day. First, because you should. And second, because so many people today are actively working to take that away from you.
I've seen the hospice protocol at work in a memory care facility. The details are too many to share here, but the fact that my dad was on hospice allowed him to be given a cocktail of Lorazepam, Seroquel and Morphine which put him to sleep sufficiently that he couldn't wake up enough to have any food or water. After 6 days he finally took his last breath. In my dad's case, I knew he was ready to go, so I didn't fight it when the nurses put him on that protocol, but it made me realize that we totally euthanize people in this country.
When my mom looked to be on her way out - sadly, also in memory care (too much DDT when they lived overseas in the 60's & 70's?) - I brought her home. Ten months later she is still with me. Hospice is better at home, but only because I haven't taken their advice and given my mother any Lorazepam or Morphine. Fortunately she is not in pain and is quite slowly and blissfully working her way out.
I don't recommend anyone sign a DNR or a POLST if they aren't already on death's door.
i too saw the hospice protocol terminate a very elderly (99) but not seriously ill dear one very quickly who might have lasted years longer without it. i had heard about death panels several years previously and didn't believe they existed. Now i realize that is the first step in this process, which i did not understand at the time, and am only now coming to terms with, nine years later. My protestation against drugging our dear one to death was ignored by the family members in power which included legal decision power. A male hospice nurse also exerted considerable pressure to squelch me, i think at the behest of my relatives. i think they had faith in the authorities - medical professionals and hospice liaisons - and also our relative had (i think temporarily) become delusional some of the time once in the hospital for 2 or 3 days. i later heard this is very common with elderly people who end up in the unfamiliar madness of a hospital. He was sane enough to DRiVE himself there alone a few days earlier. He died 7 or 8 days after that drive to the hospital, at home, under hospice protocol. it was not pretty. beware.
"The countdown isn't just starting—we're already deep into it."
Joshua, I think this is the most important point, not just regarding this topic but almost everything. Most writing about the multiple crises we face is couched in terms of warning what is starting. But most of the crises aren't starting. They have started and are snowballing. Almost everything good people fear is here already. It really is high time that every essay ends with consideration of what lawful action we can take to claw our way back to how life used to be.
For example, in the case of doubtful organ transplant practices the advice really must be to cancel existing consents, tear up donor cards, put in writing to relatives that we no longer consent and explain why, and write to our governments to tell them too. This will be tough for those waiting for transplants but my guess is that if enough people do this the problems you describe will be solved within a year or two and we can go back to donating again.
The important thing is to identify peaceful protests which have a direct effect on the wrong being protested against. There is no time left to just warn against wrongs which are starting. We have to start acting to right them.
My friend's dad (in the UK) was murdered by the NHS. Basically, they euthanized him without her knowledge or consent. I can only imagine they did this because he was old and in their eyes, unworthy of life. Appalling. She hooked up with other people who have experienced the exact same thing. One woman went to court. All the state employees closed ranks. She lost.
Michael, that is something I've been considering since the hostile corporate takeover of my family by the State of Utah, on January 29th, 2003. The communist state(s) have arrogated to themselves the power (not the right) to abort whole families based on their subjective opinions of whether that family has a right to exist without the permission of the State. The violent usurpation's of poor families who are literally forced to "donate" their children to the "State" because the social engineers have determined it's "in the best interest of the child", (a generic term straight out of the U.N). How did society come to believe there are not cults, collectivist and Satanic eugenicist operating in those venerated and coveted positions of "Public Trust" who are a direct result of Persistent Predatory Personality disorders (like the Blue Line of silence) within the Public Private Partnerships of the fascistic Gov/NGO combinations?
Unfortunately, when it comes to government dark personalities DP's (or the cluster B dark triads) where we go one we go all is not a slogan but a operating standard where the only ones who get thrown under the bus are the ones who refuse to be complicit in the immoral and unethical acts and actions of others within their own rapaciously hungry organizations.
Pseudonymous names like "The Court (was it Oliver Wendell Holmes who decided in Buck vs Bell or "The Court"? The Agent(s), The Agency(s) and anonymous statements like (we do not forget, we do not forgive)? All masking personal accountability, culpability, or social responsibility for rioting in the daytime (How many S.W.A.T. team raids for "Code violations or uncivil evictions because some local banker has decreed ownership"?) In the undeclared, unrestricted warfare/lawfare carried out every single day in every town in this country and it all gets obscured through a long and drawn out "legal" process that protects the predators and blames the victims of their predations. How much longer can the people continue to patronize those who claim a monopoly on violence and ignorance before they can see the open class/caste warfare being waged upon them? The answer is not so much as "blowing in the wind" as "The words of the Prophet's are written on the subway walls". Where else are they written?
I would have thought that with all the claimed advancements in the medical arena that they would have mostly artificial body parts for everything. But most of medicine's research goes towards creating more deadly drugs where they can spend millions and no one cares if they have nothing to show for it. It's always the possibility of discovering a miracle drug.
Had a similar thought. If the "medical" establishment/ DHS can come up with gene therapy delivered in self-assembling nanotech... um, where are the other advancements? Like, say, enabling organ self-regeneration? Baffling
Josh, For a change I have no questioning comment. Brain death was the most secure marker we had that the person was actually "dead" but had a body that was still useful for donations. I have declared many when their hearts stopped beating permanently...there brain was going to die shortly no matter what. But those folks are not suitable for donation, either. I still believe brain death is the only clear marker for a person who is physiologically alive but brain incompetent and therefor has lost their humanity. Others have moved that bar but I refuse. One doctor's opinion.
Not surprised at all, Dr. K - I know you're a great doctor with both common sense and humanity.
Your 'I refuse' is exactly what I'm talking about in the essay. The problem isn't doctors like you who hold the line on brain death as the secure marker. It's the institutional pressure to move that bar, and the metrics that reward 'conversion rates' over medical judgment.
The fact that you feel compelled to take that stand suggests others aren't - which we know is the real problem. Individual doctors with integrity vs. systems that corrupt medical decision-making.
Bring back the family doctor model. Bring back the generalist.
Josh, This is entirely the fault of Obamacare which was specifically designed to remove the one bulwark against government takeover of health and healthcare: the independent physician. They had been trying to get rid of those irritating people for decades and Obamacare let them do so. Hateful.
I have a cousin who is a surgeon - he railed on Obamacare right when it happened and predicted the mess that followed.
I do wonder whether that policy was just the nail in the coffin, however. Anyone that has studied Rockefeller Medicine knows that the patient's rights were trashed a century prior.
In all seriousness, my freshman roommate in college was a medical student. One of their professors has a saying: "You're not a doctor until you've killed your first patient."
I took that to mean, "You're going to make a deadly mistake at some point, it's part of the cost of doing business, but that doesn't mean you allow that fear to paralyse you from doing your best."
Excellent and most enlightening article ! Very beautifully stated about the spiritual reality of the consciousness occupying the human body and the utmost importance in a so called civilized society to respect and venerate that reality.
We are already on the downward slope.
It goes right along with the abortion up till 9 months and birth… murder
And let’s not forget that abominable assisted suicide. More murder. I think people are definitely waking up to it all.
Covid propaganda was a real wake up call that started the ball rolling.
The funniest part is that I don't normally post to LinkedIn but I shared this one... several people reached out to ask about "funding my new company." Sheesh.
"Organ harvesting" is a billion-dollar-plus industry, Mr. Stylman.
The only astonishing aspect of the current expose, is that the reporting happened at all. However horrifying the accounts of neo-graverobbing may be, they are hardly surprising.
Business is business.
Just as every business has its own model, each business's marketing strategy follows a model consisting of narratives considered to be the most efficacious.
Organ harvesting's marketing model is predicated on the example of live kidney donors. This focus on nobility, compassion and personal sacrifice, is a surefire sales closing technique.
The median annual salary of an OPO coordinator in 2021, was 65K. Until very recently, I had considered coordinator remuneration irrelevant as an incentive to moral hazard. Perhaps I was naive, eliding the significance of a median in the context of marginal cost.
Your ontological contextualization of trust is a necessary "peek under the hood," but it's worth observing that there is absolutely no transactionality of *any* kind, that is possible without trust.
This reifies the transactional nature of organ harvesting. The industry's marketing model anathemizes that identification, and no wonder; the consumer base is as existential an example of demand as it gets.
Vital human organs have been commoditized, which is to your point about the futility of attempting to reform what has become an example of serial grave robbery.
Well... economics has earned its sobriquet of "the dismal science" once again; following the money leads one to dismal conclusions.
It really won't do to elide the everyday mendacity of business. There are always benchmarks that we ignore to our very great peril. The organ harvesting industry's opposition to family confirmation of consent, is one such benchmark.
Remember how those refusing to participate in the mass human trial of the gene-expression prophylactic, resulted in them being removed from the organ-recipient waiting lists? There is a curious symmetry to the realization that those people were denied organs, a percentage of which were ripped from the bodies of those still clinging to life.
Trust? That's not a word that applies to an industry selling hopium to those who cannot overcome their fear of meeting their maker. A vast compassion is owed to that fearful cohort; it includes nearly everyone who has ever lived.
I cannot but wonder if the two resuscitations responsible for my being alive to write this, would have occurred if I were young enough for my organs to have a market value and I'd had a donor card on record. Upon reflection, my subsequent association with the cardiac surgeon, leads me to place the odds in my favor.
That said, any confidence rests on the individual, not the role. This is to your point about reversing the revocation of trust by means of attempting to reform the business model with legislation.
Organ transplants are ALWAYS done when the person is still alive. When the person is dead, it is too late. The concept of "brain dead" is also dubious.
Well done and insightful to write about another symptom of decay and evil infused within the medical world we are living through. Ic9 wrote that evil is the root of all money. Your essay shows the medical business is all about profit not love of thy neighbor. Transgender surgeries, covid protocol deaths to help manage population growth, abortions, Covid side effects, war victims needing surgeries, the list goes on given all the business opportunities the medical business can harvest. Covid shots alone have helped grow sales in the medical world due to their harmful effects. Your essay shows the value of life is subordinate to the metric of the $. Another form of wealth extraction if one can equate life vs the $ and no one sees it. Your essay exposes this cruelty and corruption.Thank you for research and writings.
As a retired nurse who cared for heart and lung transplant patients at a major academic medical center, I am appalled. Brain death was the sine qua non for donation; there were stringent criteria, including certification of brain death by 2 physicians. This is appalling, and terrifying.
I've been on the organ donor list for about as far back as it was an option. This week, I removed my name from the list, crossed it off my driver's license with a sharpie marker so there is no mistake, and had a conversation with my family not to trust the fu@#ers if doctors ever claim I am brain dead, and don't donate my organs until I have been on life support for at least two weeks, undergone multiple brain scans, and they stab me, PERSONALLY, with a scalpel as hard as they can to make sure nothing registers. Told them I'd rather get stabbed by a loved one and wake up, rather than have my organs torn out while still alive.
Most people aren't aware that 80% of doctors were the earliest supporters of the Third Reich, and openly advocated for the sterilization and euthanization of "undesireables". Doctor Mengele wasn't an outlier. He was the norm. His ilk is alive and well today.
Stories of people being killed because hospitals make more money on selling their organs than on saving them have been swirling on the internet for years.
The coronacircus plandemic has shown that medical doctors are selected based on obedience and greed, and nothing else.
My driver's license, and my spouse's, shows that we have opted OUT of being an organ donor. We do not want to be murdered by those whose duty is to help us. I am also taking the opportunity in conversation, whenever the subject comes up, to advise others against being an organ donor.
coronacircus! the best one word description of the past 5 years!
I recently changed my status to non-donor. I used to love knowing that my body might help another person after it could not help me. But things have changed. Opting out now seems more humane.
That’s a smart move, but there are other good reasons, maybe even better reasons, to opt out of the organ donation system. First, the donor’s estate is given no monetary compensation for the deceased’s organs. The problem with that arrangement—philosophically—is that the donator’s contribution is rendered to then have no objective value. That is, the value of any good or service can only be established when exposed to a competitive free market. (For all anyone knows, these organs may be worth millions to the donor’s estate). But the medical profession obfuscates this fact because they don’t want donated organs to go to the highest bidder which would tend to be the wealthy. But wait, if those who could not otherwise afford a fair market price for a donor organ are nevertheless allowed to receive one, then the transaction is based on charity—at least from the perspective of the donor. Okay, so if the medical profession has determined that charity is good enough for the goose, how about the gander? Are doctors performing these services for free (and I don’t mean “non-profit”, I mean FREE). How about the hospitals? Are the hospitals providing these services for free? How about the drug companies that make the anti-rejection drugs that must be administered over a lifetime? Are those drugs provided free of charge? How about the taxpayers who foot the bills for these ultra-expensive, often-subsidized services? Or those who are already paying a fortune to belong (often under government compulsion) to an insurance risk-pool that provides multi-million dollar transplant services? It seems like everyone is asked for altruistic sacrifice except anyone associated with the medical profession. Does that seem just? Secondly, if medical professionals are incapable of determining when a donor is dead or alive, how can we expect them to fairly determine who does and who does not qualify for an organ in a charity-based selection process? Remember, these are the same snakes who submitted to their profession’s Covid tyranny. When one innocently offers oneself as an organ donor, he or she is supporting the perpetuation of a corrupt system that is in all probability not in their own best interest. Kinda like buying puppies from a puppy mill.
Interesting line of thought!
“... in the rush to expand organ transplants, procurement teams have sometimes started too early... before it was fully established.”
This is not surprising in an Age where humans are viewed as Things To Exploit and not as unique and precious and valuable lifeforms. Today, it’s The Body as ‘Thing’. The Body as cash machine. The Body as just so much rock to be mined out of a quarry for the benefit of some vulture corporations-for-profit. In this case, the Human Quarry mined by soulless thieves.
News Flash: The body is not a commodity. The body is not just so-much machinery to be disassembled and sold off like some kind of car parts out of a junkyard. The body is ALIVE... even when death occurs. All subatomic particles are nothing but energy. And everyone has heard how energy can not be destroyed.
The depth of depravity of the ghouls, vultures, thieves and soul-stealing among us is at times astounding. Hard to believe some life forms can be such hideous haters of the living.
So some beloved person has their parts auctioned off so that someone ELSE can live? In what hellish World is that seen as useful process? SOME life is worth something while other lives are worthless? (Some large institutions have long been entirely constructed around this sickly Operating Thought System).
As for this sickly Parts-Harvesting Protocol... one’s mind quickly goes to the Monty Python sketch about burying a cat. It took six hours to bury the cat because... “It Wouldn’t Keep STILL’.
Beyond this parts-harvesting scheme is the even bigger picture of how quickly persons today are now put on the “Hospice Protocol” while under institutional medical care. What is this medical process? Simple. You no longer do a damn thing for the patient. You withhold medicines and pain relief and even food and water. You just let them die... with a little (actually a lot) of help from the useless medical environment around them. (This differs from “Home” hospice protocol.)
Bottom Line: The System sucks. It's dangerous. Be warned if you or someone you love gets caught up in it.
Doctor: “Sorry, he’s dead”.
Family Member: “But they were just now TALKING! I see them MOVING right now!”:
Doctor: “No you don’t. That’s all just meaningless reflex and gurgle. And if you think its more than that... well this is just useless fanciful daydreaming on your part.”
Family Member: “Oh dear! Well, OK. YOU’RE the doctor – I’m not.”
Treasure your life every single day. First, because you should. And second, because so many people today are actively working to take that away from you.
Amen
I've seen the hospice protocol at work in a memory care facility. The details are too many to share here, but the fact that my dad was on hospice allowed him to be given a cocktail of Lorazepam, Seroquel and Morphine which put him to sleep sufficiently that he couldn't wake up enough to have any food or water. After 6 days he finally took his last breath. In my dad's case, I knew he was ready to go, so I didn't fight it when the nurses put him on that protocol, but it made me realize that we totally euthanize people in this country.
When my mom looked to be on her way out - sadly, also in memory care (too much DDT when they lived overseas in the 60's & 70's?) - I brought her home. Ten months later she is still with me. Hospice is better at home, but only because I haven't taken their advice and given my mother any Lorazepam or Morphine. Fortunately she is not in pain and is quite slowly and blissfully working her way out.
I don't recommend anyone sign a DNR or a POLST if they aren't already on death's door.
i too saw the hospice protocol terminate a very elderly (99) but not seriously ill dear one very quickly who might have lasted years longer without it. i had heard about death panels several years previously and didn't believe they existed. Now i realize that is the first step in this process, which i did not understand at the time, and am only now coming to terms with, nine years later. My protestation against drugging our dear one to death was ignored by the family members in power which included legal decision power. A male hospice nurse also exerted considerable pressure to squelch me, i think at the behest of my relatives. i think they had faith in the authorities - medical professionals and hospice liaisons - and also our relative had (i think temporarily) become delusional some of the time once in the hospital for 2 or 3 days. i later heard this is very common with elderly people who end up in the unfamiliar madness of a hospital. He was sane enough to DRiVE himself there alone a few days earlier. He died 7 or 8 days after that drive to the hospital, at home, under hospice protocol. it was not pretty. beware.
Well
Hemlock and Euthanasia Society of America have morphed into Planned Parenthood and Hospice.
Profits uber alles.
This gives hope that the secular materialistic, communist worldview has not triumphed in 2025.
Humans are more than “clumps of cells” to borrow the mental gymnastics of the materialists.
Treasure your neighbors indeed.
I took myself off the organ donor list when they started denying transplants to the unvaxxed in Canada at the height of the madness.
"The countdown isn't just starting—we're already deep into it."
Joshua, I think this is the most important point, not just regarding this topic but almost everything. Most writing about the multiple crises we face is couched in terms of warning what is starting. But most of the crises aren't starting. They have started and are snowballing. Almost everything good people fear is here already. It really is high time that every essay ends with consideration of what lawful action we can take to claw our way back to how life used to be.
For example, in the case of doubtful organ transplant practices the advice really must be to cancel existing consents, tear up donor cards, put in writing to relatives that we no longer consent and explain why, and write to our governments to tell them too. This will be tough for those waiting for transplants but my guess is that if enough people do this the problems you describe will be solved within a year or two and we can go back to donating again.
The important thing is to identify peaceful protests which have a direct effect on the wrong being protested against. There is no time left to just warn against wrongs which are starting. We have to start acting to right them.
Actually we need to start prosecuting doctors for murder and administrators for conspiracy to commit murder.
We can make new laws if we need to but the existing ones ought to be enough to get us started.
My friend's dad (in the UK) was murdered by the NHS. Basically, they euthanized him without her knowledge or consent. I can only imagine they did this because he was old and in their eyes, unworthy of life. Appalling. She hooked up with other people who have experienced the exact same thing. One woman went to court. All the state employees closed ranks. She lost.
While this may be discouraging, those who lie under oath carry that burden forward.
It may bear fruit as they amend their lives going forward.
I once had a legal showdown with a superior that lied repeatedly under oath.
Rather than respond to her directly I let her tirade over 10 minutes and responded simply:
OK, I understand, thank you.
She had a breakdown and resigned work after 30 years.
After decades of incompetence she eventually burned out of evil.
She left retirement after a year or two and hopefully has changed her ways.
In any case, keep pushing. We may not see results for years but our words and actions have impact
Michael, that is something I've been considering since the hostile corporate takeover of my family by the State of Utah, on January 29th, 2003. The communist state(s) have arrogated to themselves the power (not the right) to abort whole families based on their subjective opinions of whether that family has a right to exist without the permission of the State. The violent usurpation's of poor families who are literally forced to "donate" their children to the "State" because the social engineers have determined it's "in the best interest of the child", (a generic term straight out of the U.N). How did society come to believe there are not cults, collectivist and Satanic eugenicist operating in those venerated and coveted positions of "Public Trust" who are a direct result of Persistent Predatory Personality disorders (like the Blue Line of silence) within the Public Private Partnerships of the fascistic Gov/NGO combinations?
Unfortunately, when it comes to government dark personalities DP's (or the cluster B dark triads) where we go one we go all is not a slogan but a operating standard where the only ones who get thrown under the bus are the ones who refuse to be complicit in the immoral and unethical acts and actions of others within their own rapaciously hungry organizations.
Pseudonymous names like "The Court (was it Oliver Wendell Holmes who decided in Buck vs Bell or "The Court"? The Agent(s), The Agency(s) and anonymous statements like (we do not forget, we do not forgive)? All masking personal accountability, culpability, or social responsibility for rioting in the daytime (How many S.W.A.T. team raids for "Code violations or uncivil evictions because some local banker has decreed ownership"?) In the undeclared, unrestricted warfare/lawfare carried out every single day in every town in this country and it all gets obscured through a long and drawn out "legal" process that protects the predators and blames the victims of their predations. How much longer can the people continue to patronize those who claim a monopoly on violence and ignorance before they can see the open class/caste warfare being waged upon them? The answer is not so much as "blowing in the wind" as "The words of the Prophet's are written on the subway walls". Where else are they written?
Have read this is done with late abortions.
I would have thought that with all the claimed advancements in the medical arena that they would have mostly artificial body parts for everything. But most of medicine's research goes towards creating more deadly drugs where they can spend millions and no one cares if they have nothing to show for it. It's always the possibility of discovering a miracle drug.
Had a similar thought. If the "medical" establishment/ DHS can come up with gene therapy delivered in self-assembling nanotech... um, where are the other advancements? Like, say, enabling organ self-regeneration? Baffling
Josh, For a change I have no questioning comment. Brain death was the most secure marker we had that the person was actually "dead" but had a body that was still useful for donations. I have declared many when their hearts stopped beating permanently...there brain was going to die shortly no matter what. But those folks are not suitable for donation, either. I still believe brain death is the only clear marker for a person who is physiologically alive but brain incompetent and therefor has lost their humanity. Others have moved that bar but I refuse. One doctor's opinion.
Not surprised at all, Dr. K - I know you're a great doctor with both common sense and humanity.
Your 'I refuse' is exactly what I'm talking about in the essay. The problem isn't doctors like you who hold the line on brain death as the secure marker. It's the institutional pressure to move that bar, and the metrics that reward 'conversion rates' over medical judgment.
The fact that you feel compelled to take that stand suggests others aren't - which we know is the real problem. Individual doctors with integrity vs. systems that corrupt medical decision-making.
Bring back the family doctor model. Bring back the generalist.
Josh, This is entirely the fault of Obamacare which was specifically designed to remove the one bulwark against government takeover of health and healthcare: the independent physician. They had been trying to get rid of those irritating people for decades and Obamacare let them do so. Hateful.
I have a cousin who is a surgeon - he railed on Obamacare right when it happened and predicted the mess that followed.
I do wonder whether that policy was just the nail in the coffin, however. Anyone that has studied Rockefeller Medicine knows that the patient's rights were trashed a century prior.
https://dn720205.ca.archive.org/0/items/rockefellermedic00browrich/rockefellermedic00browrich.pdf
Guns don't kill people; doctors do.
In all seriousness, my freshman roommate in college was a medical student. One of their professors has a saying: "You're not a doctor until you've killed your first patient."
I took that to mean, "You're going to make a deadly mistake at some point, it's part of the cost of doing business, but that doesn't mean you allow that fear to paralyse you from doing your best."
Now, I'm not so sure what he really meant.
LOVE THIS: "Guns don't kill people; doctors do." 🎯
Excellent and most enlightening article ! Very beautifully stated about the spiritual reality of the consciousness occupying the human body and the utmost importance in a so called civilized society to respect and venerate that reality.
We are already on the downward slope.
It goes right along with the abortion up till 9 months and birth… murder
And let’s not forget that abominable assisted suicide. More murder. I think people are definitely waking up to it all.
Covid propaganda was a real wake up call that started the ball rolling.
Thank you for putting a human face on an inhumane situation
"We're treating the mystery of consciousness as if it were a software bug to be optimized away."
Succinctly and chillingly put. It made me think about other arenas in which this is taking place.
Here's another I wrote about last year...
https://stylman.substack.com/p/new-startup-10000-days
Already laughing! "...backed by 14 governments and several actual grim reapers" ! Selfishly glad coronacircus freed your talent from business.
The funniest part is that I don't normally post to LinkedIn but I shared this one... several people reached out to ask about "funding my new company." Sheesh.
You should post those offers in Comments
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"Organ harvesting" is a billion-dollar-plus industry, Mr. Stylman.
The only astonishing aspect of the current expose, is that the reporting happened at all. However horrifying the accounts of neo-graverobbing may be, they are hardly surprising.
Business is business.
Just as every business has its own model, each business's marketing strategy follows a model consisting of narratives considered to be the most efficacious.
Organ harvesting's marketing model is predicated on the example of live kidney donors. This focus on nobility, compassion and personal sacrifice, is a surefire sales closing technique.
The median annual salary of an OPO coordinator in 2021, was 65K. Until very recently, I had considered coordinator remuneration irrelevant as an incentive to moral hazard. Perhaps I was naive, eliding the significance of a median in the context of marginal cost.
Your ontological contextualization of trust is a necessary "peek under the hood," but it's worth observing that there is absolutely no transactionality of *any* kind, that is possible without trust.
This reifies the transactional nature of organ harvesting. The industry's marketing model anathemizes that identification, and no wonder; the consumer base is as existential an example of demand as it gets.
Vital human organs have been commoditized, which is to your point about the futility of attempting to reform what has become an example of serial grave robbery.
Well... economics has earned its sobriquet of "the dismal science" once again; following the money leads one to dismal conclusions.
It really won't do to elide the everyday mendacity of business. There are always benchmarks that we ignore to our very great peril. The organ harvesting industry's opposition to family confirmation of consent, is one such benchmark.
Remember how those refusing to participate in the mass human trial of the gene-expression prophylactic, resulted in them being removed from the organ-recipient waiting lists? There is a curious symmetry to the realization that those people were denied organs, a percentage of which were ripped from the bodies of those still clinging to life.
Trust? That's not a word that applies to an industry selling hopium to those who cannot overcome their fear of meeting their maker. A vast compassion is owed to that fearful cohort; it includes nearly everyone who has ever lived.
I cannot but wonder if the two resuscitations responsible for my being alive to write this, would have occurred if I were young enough for my organs to have a market value and I'd had a donor card on record. Upon reflection, my subsequent association with the cardiac surgeon, leads me to place the odds in my favor.
That said, any confidence rests on the individual, not the role. This is to your point about reversing the revocation of trust by means of attempting to reform the business model with legislation.
Thanks for yet another elegantly written essay.
Organ transplants are ALWAYS done when the person is still alive. When the person is dead, it is too late. The concept of "brain dead" is also dubious.
Well done and insightful to write about another symptom of decay and evil infused within the medical world we are living through. Ic9 wrote that evil is the root of all money. Your essay shows the medical business is all about profit not love of thy neighbor. Transgender surgeries, covid protocol deaths to help manage population growth, abortions, Covid side effects, war victims needing surgeries, the list goes on given all the business opportunities the medical business can harvest. Covid shots alone have helped grow sales in the medical world due to their harmful effects. Your essay shows the value of life is subordinate to the metric of the $. Another form of wealth extraction if one can equate life vs the $ and no one sees it. Your essay exposes this cruelty and corruption.Thank you for research and writings.
As a retired nurse who cared for heart and lung transplant patients at a major academic medical center, I am appalled. Brain death was the sine qua non for donation; there were stringent criteria, including certification of brain death by 2 physicians. This is appalling, and terrifying.
I've been on the organ donor list for about as far back as it was an option. This week, I removed my name from the list, crossed it off my driver's license with a sharpie marker so there is no mistake, and had a conversation with my family not to trust the fu@#ers if doctors ever claim I am brain dead, and don't donate my organs until I have been on life support for at least two weeks, undergone multiple brain scans, and they stab me, PERSONALLY, with a scalpel as hard as they can to make sure nothing registers. Told them I'd rather get stabbed by a loved one and wake up, rather than have my organs torn out while still alive.
Most people aren't aware that 80% of doctors were the earliest supporters of the Third Reich, and openly advocated for the sterilization and euthanization of "undesireables". Doctor Mengele wasn't an outlier. He was the norm. His ilk is alive and well today.