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Simulacratoday at 12:32 AM6 repliesview on HN

I truly believe the conspiracy theory that hospitals are very eager to harvest our organs, and they will absolutely pull the plug to do that, maybe not even waiting until we are dead. So I think it's absolutely plausible they would ignore a DNR


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denkmoontoday at 1:10 AM

These ideas seem to be at odds with one another. I'm reasonably sure you can't harvest organs from a resuscitated person in a vegetative state, coma, severely brain damaged, whatever.

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Loughlatoday at 2:07 AM

Your statement is confusing. Please explain.

DNR means let me die and do not intervene in that process. Which is what hospitals would want if they were secretly killing people to harvest organs, right?

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Xorakiostoday at 12:51 AM

Like many older people I know, my notarized DNR, provided by and on file with my insurance company, local hospital, primary doctor, and medical power of attorney, includes standard language permitting organ harvesting.

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Fomitetoday at 3:01 AM

Like many conspiracy theories, yours seems to require holding two contradictory pieces of information as true.

croestoday at 12:45 AM

Aren’t that contradicting actions