Dutch TV Show outrage - BBC News

[indian8132]

Hi all

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm

I think its crazy and should not be allowed. A terminally ill woman goes on TV and selects one of three people to recieve her kidney as a prize. I think its sick, as a prize shown on television. I doubt it would ever happen on an English TV Show. What do you think. She choses according to their family history and friends!

[Aflux]

Why is it sick?

[:Hazel]

i think thats ew. ;l

[indian8132]

Click the link and read it, it explains everything.

[Aflux]

I really don't see anything wrong with it...

[indian8132]

I mean, its ok if you are in hospital and decide to donate your kidney, but when its on TV and you select who you donate it too according to their family history and friends and NOT about who needs it most, i think thats wrong. Also, viewers can send in texts of advice on who to select.

[GommeInc]

Different culutres do different things. If the dutch want to release a show like this, then so be it. We have fictional shows based around plastic surgery, why can't they take it to the extreme with a real, kidney transplant?

I say, let them. At the end of the day, someone gets a kidney.

[Sammeth.]

I mean, its ok if you are in hospital and decide to donate your kidney, but when its on TV and you select who you donate it too according to their family history and friends and NOT about who needs it most, i think thats wrong. Also, viewers can send in texts of advice on who to select.

All the contestants will obviously need the kidney, but thats how she has to decide WHICH one. Its not a case of who needs it most, they all need it. They arent going on the show thinking "Oh, I could get a free kidney out of this. Already have 2, whats wrong with a third?". They NEEEEEEeeeEeeEeDDd it.

[Ashley 12344]

If the terminally ill person wants to do this, then any issues of it being sick should be abandoned.

[indian8132]

Yes, but it isint their culture. Also, about what Sammeth said about who needs it the most and who doesnt, arent there people who need kidneys but they cant find someone with a specific blood type or something type because it is rare? Or am I thinking about something else.

The terminally ill person will go through with it but others think its inhumane. I just think that it should not be done on TV or according to their family and friends.