[Rick Lee]

Organ transplants or not, China is not about to abolish its capital punishment. It's just crazy to think that they ever will. If world outrage doesn't get it abolished here, where the gov't. is somewhat accountable to public opinion, then it will never happen in China, where the gov't. not only doesn't care at all, but life generally has a lower value placed on it. Anyhoo, this is not a death penalty debate.

Bottom line is that a lot more organs are available for transplant (for whatever reason) than are getting tranplanted and people die on waitlists because of medical so-called ethics. I found it kinda funny that the American who was told he was going to die and not get on the transplant list was also told by his doctor that he'd have done the exact same thing in his situation. So he went to China, got a liver or kidney from someone who was going to die no matter his health (and not die in the U.S, where he could have signed an organ donor card) and this guy lived happily ever after. Call me heartless. Heartless would be making my wife a widow because I was too righteous to do what it took to stay alive.