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Organ & Body Donations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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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.

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@janice19992024 · in “Harvard morgue theft ring stole body parts, sold brains, flesh->leather (2023)”

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] [VIDEO]

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@alborzb2024 · in “US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died”

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) [VIDEO]

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@throwup2382024 · in “Mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say”

John Oliver did an episode on organ transplants and it is pretty much a clusterf*ck: [VIDEO] It varies state by state but some of the programs are pretty bad, it's no surprise that something like this happened.

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