Stories like this always make me think that the world should exist in a "presumed consent" state where organ donation is concerned, and if you choose to opt out you should be blocked from receiving organ donations, too - you can't have it both ways.
Cyn.c's comment below is beyond histrionic to say doctors would kill you for body parts. If the vast majority of us were automatically donors then there undoubtedly wouldn't be such a shortage so there'd be no need to kill people for body parts; as this episode touched on, to be asked to donate your loved one's organs when they've just died is the worst timing. As for the comment about "literally stealing still beating hearts", the heart (and other organs) needs to be still active for the living tissue to be healthy and therefore viable for transplant.
Honestly, I'm happy that I'm living in one of those countries that presume you want to donate your organs unless you explicitly deny that.
But that doctor played god, she opened a pandora's box when she goes around harvesting organs without consent. Who's to say that she actually did everything she could for the child that was on her table? Who's to say someone else wouldn't participate in the illegal organ market and sell organs, who's to say that down the road they wouldn't custom screen children in the hospital who're in a coma etc and just start harvesting their organs? That's a very slippery road.
I realize that in this case she wanted to save children, but it's simply not her place. And Benson working herself up about not letting the heart go to that boy... what about the girl's dignity? What about her parents' grief? The doctor didn't even let them make the decision just because she presumed they'd decline. But close the daughter up, keep her on life support so that the organs are viable and talk to the parents. Give them a few days. The situation wasn't so immediate that they couldn't wait those few days and follow proper procedures.
Prime example why I'm not an organ donor.. they will kill you just to take your body parts. That doctor certainly should receive time in jail for literally stealing still beating hearts lol amongst other body parts. it's criminal and should remain that way.
Shout by hannahBlockedParent2022-04-01T07:59:21Z
one of those episodes that really highlights the morally gray areas of the world. i know where i personally stand as someone who signed up as an organ donor the moment i got my license and who's donated blood and plasma. i know that if i were in the situation the parents were in, i would have consented immediately—and if i hadn't, i would have found closure in the decision the doctor made without my consent, given how i was raised. i absolutely wouldn't want my child's organs back. the way the father reacted, i understand; the mother, not at all. but at the end of the day, the narcissism of this doctor to think that she was doing the world some great service by forging dozens of consent forms instead of just asking the families in a compassionate and humane way? man, i just can't reconcile that part.