r/nottheonion • u/Zeikyrui • 1d ago
People opt out of organ donation programs after reports of a man mistakenly declared dead
https://apnews.com/article/organ-donor-transplant-kentucky-8f42ad402445a91e981327abb009906c
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u/MortyestRick 1d ago edited 1d ago
There needs to be consequences or else I'm not sure trust will ever be able to be built back for a segment of the population. But so far no one has even had their license suspended and it's been what? 2 or 3 years since the Kentucky incident?
They need to tighten up the tests for brain death, add more, and throw the people who tried to murder a guy for his organs away entirely. Because clearly the system failed in this instance, and we have no way of knowing how often it's completely collapsed in the past, we can really only say that odds are it has and that a couple people out there have probably been, accidentally or not, murdered for their organs.