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Re: This is where I actually want a gun
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:56:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Chris Phillips wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > What if he was worth more as parts than just plain dead? Let him live out his
> > remaining years with a sliver of liver, one lung, one kidney and no eyes,
> > every day people perish for lack of a transplantable kidney, let him repay
> > his debt that way.
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> Wow, this is an interesting idea.
Not my original idea. Try googling using Niven and Corpsicle as search terms...
also try Gil Hamilton, ARM and Patchwork Girl.
Note that it's not Niven's original idea either, I don't think. (at least the
frozen corpse part of it anyway)
> Maybe this is what was meant by "an eye for
> an eye..." Part out the death row inmates to save other lives. Something King
> Solomon would appreciate, I'm sure.
You can't COMPLETELY part them out unless you have a reversible way to record
their memory, personality, etc etc, and restore them. That's way way off.
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