Organ & Body Donations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it in threads about donated bodies and organ transplant failures as a critical look at opaque systems.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2024 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends alborzb · 2024-08 · on “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) [this video]
Cites janice1999 · 2024-01 · on “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] [this video]
Cites throwup238 · 2024-10 · on “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: [this video] It varies state by state but some of the programs are pretty bad, it's no surprise that something like this happened.