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29 May 2007

A Dutch TV station is to make a game show in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys, with advice being sent in by viewers via text message. The programme appears to intend to create a public debate on the lack of organ donors, and the game show is defended by the chairman, who claims that:
"The chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%... This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list. We think that is disastrous, so we are acting in a shocking way to bring attention to this problem."
Although it is a good thing to raise this sort of topic, and personally I think organ donation should be an opt-out rather than an opt-in system. But quite frankly, as much as it is a way to highlight the lack of organs available, putting it on TV in the form of a game show is taking it way way too far.

This is the line.........................This is how far they are past it.

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