Who wants to be a millionaire kidney transplant recipient?
posted at 6:29 pm on May 26, 2007 by Allahpundit
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The inflation of game-show jackpots continues apace — from the $64,000 question to the $100,000 pyramid to “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” to, at long last, the really big prizes.
DUTCH broadcaster BNN plans to air a television show next week in which a terminally ill woman will decide who out of three young patients will get her kidney.
Viewers will be able to advise the 37-year-old woman, known as Lisa, via text messages which of the candidates to pick, the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper said…
BNN, whose former director died from kidney failure after spending years on a waiting list for a kidney transplant, told the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper that the show wanted to highlight the acute shortage of donors in the Netherlands…
Several transplant patient organisations and politicians have objected to The Big Donor Show.
“This is going in the direction of selling organs,” a spokeswoman for the Dutch Transplant Foundation told Algemeen Dagblad.
Exit question: You’d watch, wouldn’t you?
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“Two of you are going to die, and I’m going to be the one who chooses who.”
Sweet.
James on May 26, 2007 at 6:31 PM
No, I wouldn’t. Eww.
Karol on May 26, 2007 at 6:33 PM
and you said you weren’t going to post much this weekend Allah.
frreal on May 26, 2007 at 6:33 PM
I said I’d keep blogging, just without much commentary.
Allahpundit on May 26, 2007 at 6:34 PM
Noted kidney donation ethicist John Locke, believed to currently be in transit from Sydney to Los Angeles, could not be reached for comment.
Blacklake on May 26, 2007 at 6:34 PM
If they simply allowed people to sell their organs, we would not be here now.
Donor organizations sell organs all of the time … but they scream when anyone talks about their sources ( or the source’s family ) getting a cut.
Kristopher on May 26, 2007 at 6:39 PM
I wouldn’t watch.
The ethical issues (arguments) could probably fill a terabyte of storage…
Zorro on May 26, 2007 at 7:23 PM
I was under the impression the flight has been delayed. Not explanations given.
allie on May 26, 2007 at 7:32 PM
If I were Duch…
With a big bowl of hasheesh, port rhines, and beer. Make a weekend out of it on the DVR.
If I were Dutch, that is….
Kini on May 26, 2007 at 7:36 PM
Sorry….I’ll wait for Rollerball.
Limerick on May 26, 2007 at 7:38 PM
Oh. My. Gawd. This is disgusting to the extreme.
Neocon Peg on May 26, 2007 at 7:41 PM
I’m pretty disturbed by this. Talk about your slippery slopes…
jaleach on May 26, 2007 at 7:48 PM
I can honestly say I wouldn’t be interested in watching that at all. Three humans reduced to playing a game to determine who lives and who dies. Sick? Disgusting? I don’t think there’s an appropriate word for it.
taznar on May 26, 2007 at 7:51 PM
What does the donor get? A bathtub filled with ice to wake up in?
Nether in the Netherlands.
Kini on May 26, 2007 at 7:52 PM
Only if the show aired the operation right then and there, after “Lisa” makes her decision.
corbettw on May 26, 2007 at 7:53 PM
Ahhh, Europeans–always on the cutting edge of taste!
robblefarian on May 26, 2007 at 8:01 PM
My solution for the organ shortage? Here in Tennessee, our legislators are mulling over doing away with the helmet law for motorcyclists. I’ve ridden a bike since the mid-70’s and would never think about getting on it without a helmet. So, my solution? If you decide to ride without a helmet, you’re giving your implied consent to be an organ donor.
harnessg on May 26, 2007 at 8:25 PM
I only have three words for this: Dis, Gust, Ing
Hobbie on May 26, 2007 at 9:00 PM
Not to be outdone, MSNBC plans to air a television show next week in which Olberdunce will decide who out of his three viewers will get his Ashley Banfield spectacles.
fogw on May 26, 2007 at 10:34 PM
Isn’t this the same country that chooses who is too old to live? Your family can have you “knocked off” if you become inconvenient?
My father was a kidney transplant recipient and I will never think ill of the practice of organ transplant. It was a gift of 28 years he would not have had otherwise.
But this…this….abomination that BNN will broadcast had better be spurned by everybody.
TwinkietheKid on May 26, 2007 at 10:48 PM
Trade a green card for a kidney?
Kristopher on May 26, 2007 at 10:55 PM
What if it’s a Jew kidney?
And yet, he comments to say he’s not going to comment much. You’re just as bad and addict as Michelle blogging in the salon.
Well if the organ industry wasn’t socialized then maybe there would be more on the market. If you sell it, the price goes to the estate, like for your grandchildrens college fund or charity of your choice. . . . only thing is how to keep down the insedents of harvest mugging.
- The Cat
MirCat on May 26, 2007 at 11:11 PM
Hmmm, “Kidney Jeopardy” sounds promising.
infidel4life on May 26, 2007 at 11:13 PM
I’ll take Renal Failure for five hundred, Alex? Sounds pretty disgusting to me.
jaleach on May 27, 2007 at 1:21 AM
This is an excellent example of why the rest of the world sucks. Even the supposedly civilized countries are still pretty much animals.
If we keep going in this direction for too long, then it’s only a matter of time until The Running Man is more than just a book (well, technically, it already is, since they made a movie, but you get what I mean).
Wolfman on May 27, 2007 at 2:53 AM
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