Black Market Organs - Documentary

[Nemra]

Great investigation.

Edited May 15 by Nemra

[Lauro Chapa]

What do you think the biggest moral dilemma is on this?

[Nemra]

@Lauro Chapa, well, the legal path is so slow that you could die from waiting.

The illegal path is fast and could work better, but it would aid criminal activity.

[Puer Aeternus]

What a wicked survival dilemma.

 

On average seven years to get a donor? Not only is there a risk of death, but it's probably going to be degrading their quality of life while they wait. Could be literally unbearable pain day in and out. Pain for those around them during this time. Plus no one really plans for it- it just happens, you could have family, responsibilities, etc and it's like WTF am I going to do about that? Also just not wanting to die in general, of course.

 

It's iffy, but. Hot take, I might even be okay with people selling organs if there was a reasonable system where donors were compensated fairly and looked after medically after. But of course, this is some fantasyland scenario.

 

Because it's the cartels, you might as well assume someone got murdered for the black market organ you'd be getting. There would basically be no way to tell if it was or not. Both donor and recipient are locked into desperation and are getting heavily ripped off on price. Plus where is the accountability that the organ would even remain functional, could just be all for nothing. Not like there's even some Yelp-esque website for airing out botched organ deliveries. 

 

Of course, if you needed an organ there's a good chance you'd be too emotionally compromised to consider it all. Some Latino guy who I've never met and from a country I've never been to has to die for me to get an organ. Hmm, I'm not going to face this reality but it's emotionally distant enough from me where I'll be able to pretend it didn't happen! "The cartel told me the organ was ethically sourced with love from a happy donor! "