This is pertaining to my criminal organ transplant question?

Question

Horacio Alberto Reyes was sentenced to death in 1996 for stabbing to death a girl and giving another girl 17 stab wounds. While in prision in Oregon, his kidneys began to fail so they put him on dialysis costing the taxpayers $120,000 per year. They decided to give him an organ transplant. However he failed the medical requirements, but do you think this was the right thing to do? Was this fair?

Answer 1

while dialysis may be costly ,so is the anti-rejection drugs ... let a condemned man have dialysis but a transplant GIVE ME A BREAK.. !!!! there are many many more deserving law abiding people on the list .....let the sucker stay on the machine ,

Answer 2

i guess it goes with the ethics thing again, yes dialysis was the ethical thing to do, however a kidney transplant seems over the top. so are u saying that he wasn't in that bad a shape to have the transplant anyway? i don't believe it was fair considering my grandparents both died from kidney failure related issues while they both were waiting for matching kidneys. i often wonder if they were white would they have gotten the kidney's they so desperately needed?

Answer 3

No organs for inmates! Dialysis and other treatment, yes, unfortunately the taxpayer has to take on this burden.

Answer 4

Dialysis?? I guess is OK...withholding it would be like withholding food, which would be inhumane.

Organ transplant?? No. He is sentenced to die anyway. Unless the donation came from one of his family members and he/his family paid for all costs associated with it.

Answer 5

Same answer I gave before. Yes. Prisons are called correctional facilities, not means of revenge.

Answer 6

I don't think he or she should be the first choice, but if the organ does not meet other needs, yes, give it to him/her