How Congress is addressing the organ donor shortage

By giving them a medal:

Just ask yourself: if you are on the fence about donating an organ, does the thought of a commemorative medal sway your opinion at all?

Comments

RJS
I wonder what the eBay value of one of these medals will be?
Anonymous
A trinket for donating an organ… This would be laughable if the issue were not of such gravity. The solution is to remove governmental interference when it comes to the selling of one’s own organs. To look at this another way, would the transplant team give their time to performing surgery if they were not given money and instead given trinkets? One would think not.
~Criminallopath~
Andy
The simple solution would be just to assume that everybody is an organ donor. It’s illogical not to give up your organs/body upon death – it’s not as if you’ll still need them.
Anonymous
Nonsense. Neither the State nor the transplant team has any rights to my organs. Whether I (the operative word here) need them or not and what I want to have done with them is up to me.
First the State robs the dead with the estate tax and now people are suggesting that the State rob the organs of the dead.
Anonymous
“It’s illogical not to give up your organs/body upon death – it’s not as if you’ll still need them.”
Illogical? Says who? These are my organs and I can do just exactly whatever I want with them. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to be an organ donor but if I do its because its what I want to do.
Anonymous
How about we the public give Congersseople a Citizens MEdal of Honor for the heroic feat of DOING THEIR GODDAMNED JOBS!

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