Culture of Death

Hmmm....not only will the young have to contribute to health care by buying insurance they don't need, but maybe they will have to contribute in other ways too.

Because nobody is going to want old folks' broken down, used up body parts.

Obama's Regulatory Czar is advocating that the State remove the organs of those who are dead or near death whether or not the consent.

Because "the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone's permission."

You are owned by the State.

Or at least your body parts are.

Here is the full squib:

TEL AVIV – President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission.

Cass Sunstein also has strongly pushed for the removal of organs from deceased individuals who did not explicitly consent to becoming organ donors.

In his 2008 book, "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness," Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler discussed multiple legal scenarios regarding organ donation. One possibility presented in the book, termed by Sunstein as "routine removal," posits that "the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone's permission."

It appears that Sunstein is suggesting that consent for such removal be "presumed" in the absence of a statement revoking such presumed consent.

[Via Catholic Caveman.]