Op-Ed: Valuing Organs — Literally

August 27, 2007

A horror rock opera with Paris Hilton? The emphasis must be on “a horror.”

Indeed, the futuristic musical, announced by the Associated Press, is about a dystopia in which characters must purchase new organs if they are to survive a plague. It foreshadows the most visceral fears of a market-based organ procurement system – right down to the fear that the organs, once transplanted, could later be repossessed. (TCS Daily)