May 29th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
A Dutch TV station is to make a game show in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys, with advice being sent in by viewers via text message. The programme appears to intend to create a public debate on the lack of organ donors, and the game show is defended by the chairman, who claims that:“The chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%… This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list. We think that is disastrous, so we are acting in a shocking way to bring attention to this problem.”Although it is a good thing to raise this sort of topic, and personally I think organ donation should be an opt-out rather than an opt-in system. But quite frankly, as much as it is a way to highlight the lack of organs available, putting it on TV in the form of a game show is taking it way way too far.
This is the line.……………………This is how far they are past it.
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That’s SICK.
What have we come to?
mate - in the Oz version of BB, a girl’s dad has died and they havent had the decency to tell her.
it beggars belief