Organs of UK Nuclear Workers Secretly Harvested; Energy Secretary Apologizes 309
fernlyn writes with word of a report detailing a decades-long practice of clandestine post-mortem organ removal from the bodies of dozens of workers in the UK's nuclear energy industry; Britain's Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has apologized to the families of those workers whose organs were taken without consent or even acknowledgement. Many of the organs taken were removed without any apparent forensic purpose in mind. Surviving relatives are understandably upset with what they see as cavalier treatment of their loved ones' bodies (even beyond unauthorized organ removal), such as the replacement of bones with lengths of broomstick.
Witch bones (Score:4, Funny)
were replaced with lengths of broomstick?
Two sides (Score:2, Funny)
It's one thing to not care what happens to your own body after death or to not hold any religious dogma to ones demise, it's another thing entirely to not respect anothers religious beliefs or desires. I often read how Christians and other religions are full of zealots that push their beliefs on others but I see just as many Atheists call them idiots for believing such things. Basically, I see the same pushing and forcing from both sides and it's disrespect regardless from which camp it comes from. I believe in a prime mover for a couple reasons, mostly cause i think it's nieve to believe that just because I cant perceive something with my 5 senses that it doesn't exist. I also believe that with technology comes the ability to perceive things we as a human race couldn't before. Germs are a good example of this. The other reason comes from the premise that mathematics was a discovery more than an invention. There was an invention by us humans within the concept of math, but that invention was the use of symbols to quantify something that inherently exists in the universe. I expect to be reamed by those who've been burned by religious constructs. Just remember, religion as an organization was a human invention that's run by humans and we're all flawed in some way therefore so are our creations. So how is it that the underlying principles that allow math to exist as a concept isn't flawed? Sure the concepts WE determine that exist within it can be, but that's OUR perception in practice..and we're flawed...
Re:What the hell is the fuss about (Score:5, Funny)
Only three things are certain in life. Death, taxes, and getting your organs harvested by the government.
Re:Klingons do not problems with body's (Score:3, Funny)
I'm pretty sure no other Nuclear worker held open the eyes of the other Nuclear workers while yelling into the sky...
I can see Homer Simpson doing it if the guy was due to buy a round at Moe's.
Re:What the hell is the fuss about (Score:1, Funny)
On a completely unrelated subject did you hear that the Soylent Corporation will soon be introducing a new product called Soylent Green?
Re:What the hell is the fuss about (Score:5, Funny)
Judging from your name, you don't mind if someone pees on you while you're alive, either.
Re:What the hell is the fuss about (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What the hell is the fuss about (Score:1, Funny)
If the dead voted, they would be able to own property.
Apparently you never heard of Chicago politics.
Re:What the hell is the fuss about (Score:2, Funny)
Wow, what a concept. Demonstrate how much your soul doesn't need your body by donating your heart.....right now. When you're done, you won't be needing your body any more, so it won't really matter that much anyway. While you're at it, maybe you can arrange for a necrophiliac to take what's left of your carcass home with him.....after all, it doesn't really matter that much.....next-of-kin be damned.
Re:What the hell is the fuss about (Score:3, Funny)
Demonstrate how much your soul doesn't need your body by donating your heart.....right now.
I think the point was that once you're dead, your soul doesn't particularly need your body. I don't know if we have an immortal soul or not, but when I'm dead I want to donate my body to science - with the proviso that when medical students have finished practicing on me, they leave bits of my body around as a prank, with the label "Hi, I'm Gordonjcp and I'm dead now - but I am still doing it for the lulz."
Re:What the hell is the fuss about (Score:2, Funny)
>But these people are dead.
That wasn't clear from the summary.
Re:What the hell is the fuss about (Score:2, Funny)
If the dead voted, they would be able to own property.
The dead do vote, predominantly in Chicago, where every few years they re-elect a man without a soul. Some say he raises the dead by means of a dark magic and that voting places are haunted in Chicago. But those who study the dark arts know that he actually has a soul blade that he uses to control the undead voters, and when he loses an election, he will be claimed by the dark powers.
Re:What the hell is the fuss about (Score:3, Funny)
If you believe in the concept of an immortal soul, then at that point you arn't using your body any more - so it doesn't really matter that much anyway. Body - Soul = Meat.
Tell that to the Ancient Egyptians.