LastWeekTonight
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31:37 · 5M views · Dec 4, 2023
A Last Week Tonight segment on organ and body donation, covering where donations actually go, how donated bodies are used and sold, and problems in organ transplant programs.
HN cites it in threads about donated bodies and organ transplant failures as a critical look at opaque systems.
3 comments from Hacker News
I'm not OP but John Oliver had a pretty good episode about hospitals, organ donation organisations and even non-profits, all benefit from a opaque system intentionally designed to hide where bodies go when "disposed" -- Here's a youtube link to the episode (may be blocked in certain regions due to copyright) this video
Jon Oliver did a piece on body donation[0]. Many people probably wouldn't expect their loved ones body to be used for entertainment in a hotel, sold piece by piece for profit or used to test explosives. [0] this video
John Oliver did an episode on organ transplants and it is pretty much a clusterf*ck: this video It varies state by state but some of the programs are pretty bad, it's no surprise that something like this happened.