Should all inmates that die while incarcerated, automatically have their organs harvested?

Question

This could help out with the organ donor program and help recoup some of the money to cover the cost of their incarceration.

Your thoughts?

No it is not their decision. They have became state property, through the commission of crimes. Harvest the organs!

fortitudinousskeptic - of course they would be tested for health related problems. maybe you are thinking too much about taking it up the yingyang!

topgunpilot22 - the question asks about those that die while incarcerated, not about harvesting from the living!

agreed on the money making aspect topgun22!

Answer 1

Not a bad idea. It may help in repaying their "debt to society." If not viable for organ transplants, the remains could be used at universities or schools for research (cadaver labs, surgeons, etc.) This may be the best thing a lot of these convects have done in their entire lives.

Answer 2

all inmates No but the inmates who die and are able to have their organs harvested should.

Not everyone can have their organs harvested its just like giving blood some people can't because of disease so they can go to the blood banks all they want but won't get a needle in their arm. As for the money issue you bring up it doesn't cost a person anything when they die to have their organs harvested it costs the person or hospital that takes the organs from the body to store them and in the end the person recieving the newly harvested organs pays the cost so in reality the "incarcerated" person dies does a good thing and still screws over the tax payers for paying for him to live in prison

Answer 3

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU MORONS? People are arrested for smoking pot because voters are too ignorant to change the law, but same ignorant voters elect Rick Scott governor when he should be in prison for stealing billions from Medicare. Even for Republicans, organ theft is OVERKILL (pun intended). IT'S ABOUT MONEY! Facilities are paid for each day that someone is in jail. Empty cells = no profit. Inmates see doctor and RECEIVE INADEQUATE/ABUSIVE TREATMENT. Medications are given improperly if at all. Seventy year old men denied adequate care. INMATES WITHOUT LEGS DENIED SHOWER CHAIRS. SHERIFF KNIGHT DENIES RESPONSIBILITY. ARMOR CORRECTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES IS CARE PROVIDER. OWNER OF ARMOR IS SCUMBAG FRIEND OF EMBEZZLING GOVERNOR. IS THAT THE REASON SARASOTA COUNTY HAS SO MANY INMATE DEATHS? Organ donors for people with money? Open season on anyone without money?. Only Tea Party extremists would want involuntary organ harvesting to be made legal. SHERIFF KNIGHT in May, 2015, stated that if health care while in Sarasota County Jail resulted in death that people "COULD TRY TO SUE", Don't worry, if you drive a Mercedes or BMW, you're probably safe.

Answer 4

No, because even though they are inmates, we recognize that they are people. They are not "state property," they are persons in the custody of the state. As such, what happens to you when you die is your choice (limited by funds, of course), and using prisoners corpses as automatic donor machines would violate a number of human rights.
(Interestingly, there are some states in which EXECUTED felons have asked that their bodies be donated to science and the state has refused, I guess on the grounds that the convict should not be allowed to benefit (in any physical way) from his death, and such decisions have been affirmed. I'm not sure that's an appropriate response, either)

P.S. It is utterly illegal to sell body parts, although there has been discussion about the possibility. So that's not going to happen in the near future.

Answer 5

Although they were convicted and are doing time, the state does not own them, or their corpses for that matter, and their bodies are disposed of in the way the convict or their family sees fit.
They might do what you're talking about in Russia or China, but in the USA it's an obvious moral question.
The other thing is that most criminal are drug users and who wants organs that are all buggered up anyway?

Answer 6

I feel that unless specified it is a decision for family members to make. However, if no one claims the body, I think it would be a good idea.

Answer 7

That is a great idea but it is an individual choice..even if you are incarcerated. You are still given your choice to choose. If the person doesn't act to become an organ donar, then their organs are not donated. Most incarcerated criminals are either unaware or apathetic to donating organs.

Answer 8

I am all for this! I think that would be their ultimate pay back and good deed!

I've also thought of this so you aren't alone in your way of thinking.

Answer 9

My thoughts are that you haven't thought this one through, Einstein.
Do you really want to receive an organ from someone who probably took it up the ying-yang from somebody else who has AIDS?
Duh.....

Answer 10

I don't see anything wrong with it.