The Big Donor Show.....?

Its disgusting - can you imagine trying to win a show so that you can live?? What about the people who don't win??

The Running Man will be made into a show soon after......why are TV Execs trying to shock us more and more - Big Brother is bad enough but this is sick!

If you had a loved one on the kidney recipient list, you would not feel so passionately against it. I think if the person donating is terminally ill and they freely choose to donate their kidney, then a great service is being done. I have a faimly member waiting on their 2nd kidney transplant after having rejected their 1st transplant after 15 years. They have been waiting a year now, on dialyiss every other day for 4 hours and we are being told it could be another year before a kidney comes available, if then. If nothing else, the show will bring awareness to how many people out there are dying, waiting on an organ transplant. Maybe some good can come of it.

The need for donated organs is not a game. The reality is that despite the generosity of organ donors and their families, there are more than 96,000 people in the United States waiting for a transplant and each year thousands die waiting for a gift that never comes.

The story about a terminally ill woman who has chosen as one of her last acts to donate her kidney to a complete stranger is a powerful story. Coupling her compassionate decision with a competition among desperate potential recipients undermines the value of her decision and the gift itself.

Highlighting the stories of people waiting for the gift of life is a meaningful way to bring the need for donated organs to light. Creating a competition among a few handpicked candidates may reinforce the myth that recipients get preferential treatment based on their social status or demographics instead of their medical need. It may also create an air of desperation that may reinforce the myth that the shortage is so acute that doctors will be more interested in recovering organs than saving the life of hospitalized patients.

Totally agree - Endemol makes its money scraping the very bottom of the barrel of life.

Everybody involved is being manipulated - from the donor, through the potential donees and all the way to the audience.

AND they are apparently going to have a concurrent text vote service.

It's absolutely disgusting.

However, I 'm sure plenty of morons, rubberneckers, ghouls and sensationalism lovers in this country would be more than happy to both watch and participate in the voting process.

i think it is immoral and sick that the life of a person may depend on public votes and it is seen as entertainment imagine how soul destroying it would be if you needed a transplant and finding out publicly on tv that you are not accepted for the organ due to public opinion and not expert diagnosis

it is really immoral. i heard about it this afternoon and am blown away at how immoral, sickening and disrespectful this tv company is being, in order to gain good ratings.

i'm thinking about starting a chain email petition.

shitholes who came up with this do not deserve the full health that they have.

Is this for real? I never heard of it. I hope it helps someone. Having a kidney transplant is no joke. I've been there.

Immoral yes, and another indication of the decline in standards of another TV company.

Yup - may as well have gladiator games - schadenfreud doesn't even begin to describe the bleakness of the programmes appeal. What sick **** thought this game up in the first place ? - he (it's gotta be a he) should be tried in the human -rights court and have his membership to society revoked.

I heard this on the news too