Excuse my ignorance as I do not have cable. We watch only videos. Too much garbage on tv for my comfort. I am asking because I am on dialysis and find this disgusting and inhumane.
2007-05-30 02:56:39 · 30 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
True I had not thought about how it could encourage donations but still I find it hard to digest. Isn't there another way? Say one is automatically considered a donor unless they opt out?
2007-05-30 03:14:07 · update #1
Yeps, it's gonna be on Dutch TV tomorrow evening. I somewhat agree with what they are going to do.
Sometimes a shock is needed to make a point.
The TV Show is trying to show the horrors that can happen when there is such a huge shortage of donors, as we have today.
The founder of BNN, the TV channel that puts this show on the air, Bart de Graaff, died exactly 5 years ago this week, because he didn't find a donor kidney. People simply don't fill in a donor card, because they don't think about it.
The show is really needed. If they would have made a beautiful documentary about the same subject, nobody would have watched. Now an entire country is talking about the subject, parliament tried to ban the show (and failed at that), and people start to think of new ways to get more people willing to be a donor after their death.
The host of the show, Patrick Lodiers, is actually known for treating such subjects with delicacy and respect. But he will make the point that's needed. Sometimes a shock is needed to save lives.
EDIT: In Belgium the law says everybody is a donor, unless they register themselves as 'not a donor'. That system works much better. Dutch politicians still refuse to even take that option serious. The TV show at least makes people think about it again, and maybe even politician will change their minds. There IS a huge shortage of donors. The decisions the TV show is going to show us "pick one out of three, the other two will probably die in the end", that decision is made every single day, every single hour by doctors.
The real horror here is that society can't bring themselves to fill in a simple donor card. Not this particular TV show is the bad part. Society is. The show simply shows what happens caused by our own ignorance and our refusal to 'love our neighbor'.
2007-05-30 03:01:09 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I think it's to get the point across to the "working class" (no offense there) that there is a huge shortage of kidneys available.
I'll admit that it is a very grim and macabre way of displaying it but nothing works better than extreme shock.
To be honest though I think most people will see it as an excuse to get ratings in, which in some ways it is, but the major point remains.
They could, in theory, pull such a show off with a cast of actors and a pigs kidney but I doubt it would have the same impact.
On a final note, I wish you well on your way to finding a donor kidney soon.
2007-05-30 03:13:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I understand the need to make a point, and to bring to life the very real fact that too many people never receive the organs they need to stay alive.
I can't imagine the devastation felt by the person who doesn't win, and their families. I suppose it would shout out loud and clear that you are not good enough to live.
People who suffer serious illnesses have enough hardships to bear without adding to it. There has to be a better way to make a point. If this game show is the best we can do, then it says an awful lot about the sad state of affairs this world is in.
What ever happened to loving each other, helping your neighbor, respecting your elders, caring for your fellow man? What have we become?
2007-05-30 03:15:57 · answer #3 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
sad but true
The TV show is run by the same company (Endomol) that run the Big Brother programmes (another mindless heap of garbage). This particular excuse for entertainment is planned to be screened in the Netherlands and revolves around various people competing for the right to receive a kidney donated by a willing volunteer who will judge who is the most deserving case, aided (of course) by the viewers paying to register their votes on who should get the kidney.
The pathetic justification for this insensitive and gruesome show is to highlight the lack of donors. I somehow doubt whether it is planned to donate much of the profits from the show into providing more dialysis units or publicising the need for more donors to come forward and can only suggest that it should be totally boycotted and ignored by everyone so that the venture is a total failure.
What next - patients waiting for heart transplants made to fight to the death so that the winner gets the transplant?
2007-05-30 02:58:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-18 08:38:44 · answer #5 · answered by hergenroeder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's really amazing about all this 'reality' tv crap, is who watches it. Families all over middle America are the target audience. These are the same people who claim to be all Christian, but here they are swapping wives, and gaming over body parts.
Very strange version of devout we have in the US.
On the other hand, there are a few really sweet shows in the mix. Extreme Makeover Home Edition is a very loving and generous show, about people actually helping each other instead of tearing each other's eyes out for six and a half minutes of pseudo-fame.
2007-05-30 03:03:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. A Dutch TV station will be airing a show where a kidney donor has been matched with three recipients, and the recipients are trying to convince the audience to vote them to get the kidney.
I think there's a sick, macabre humor to the whole thing, but I can't believe this passes medical ethic muster.
2007-05-30 03:02:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
It's true:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm
The makers claim that it is to highlight the shortage of donor kidneys in the Netherlands. A producer on the channel died waiting for a donor kidney. It is a weak argument, and terrible to be one of the losing participants, but I suppose there is a case to be made for a point to the programme. Grim, whichever way you look at it.
2007-05-30 03:00:29 · answer #8 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I saw a paragraph on this in the paper, so yeah, they are doing it in Holland.
Just what I'd want to do as the organ donor--meet a dozen people and decide that eleven of them are going to die so I can pick the best one to live! No pressure, since I have the wisdom of Solomon and the cold bloodedness of Dahmer.
You're not fired, you don't have to leave the island. . .
You're voted off the planet!
2007-05-30 03:04:36 · answer #9 · answered by wayfaroutthere 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If it is a kidney you need,I am willing to give you one of mine so that you can live and raise your children who really need their mother. Yes, trying to win one is not the way to go. Just ask. There are may who will just give in order to save a life.
2007-05-30 20:31:02 · answer #10 · answered by Dakota Lynn Takes Gun 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋