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akujunkan...which I will write more about later. Perhaps it's precisely because of this that I'm so irked at having come home to find this article in the NYT.
The gist of it? Seventeen Japanese citizens--elderly citizens, no less--are currently under investigation by the Chinese government on suspicion of having travelled to China for illegal organ transplants. That's odious enough on its own.
But what makes it even worse, and what the NYT article inexplicably fails to mention is why Japanese people go to China for illegal organ transplants. Namely, because Japanese people refuse to be organ donors. Seriously, this is such a well known fact that it's been used as the main plot device in modern American fiction.
And it will never cease to gall and disgust me. If you find the prospect of being an organ donor so repellent, then suck it up and leave the donated to organs to people in societies that don't hold such views.
That will be all.
The gist of it? Seventeen Japanese citizens--elderly citizens, no less--are currently under investigation by the Chinese government on suspicion of having travelled to China for illegal organ transplants. That's odious enough on its own.
But what makes it even worse, and what the NYT article inexplicably fails to mention is why Japanese people go to China for illegal organ transplants. Namely, because Japanese people refuse to be organ donors. Seriously, this is such a well known fact that it's been used as the main plot device in modern American fiction.
And it will never cease to gall and disgust me. If you find the prospect of being an organ donor so repellent, then suck it up and leave the donated to organs to people in societies that don't hold such views.
That will be all.
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on 2009-02-19 02:35 pm (UTC)Yeah I'm hoping that I can't be a donor, because while I actually DO want to die someday, I'm kinda hoping I'm too brittle and old to be viable, because I don't really intend to do it for at least another 50-60 years. I'm not sure there's much they can use at that point. That said, if there is something they can use, they are free to peel away my leathery wrinkley skin and take it.