Organ Donation for Entertainment?!?

[AngieDoogles]

I was appalled when I saw this article!

Latest Reality Game Show Prize - A Kidney
SkyNews
By thomasp_news SkyNews - Tuesday, May 29 02:13 pm

A huge row has broken out over a reality game show by the makers of Big Brother which will see a terminally-ill woman choose a recipient for her kidneys.

The programme, to be shown in the Netherlands on Friday, has caused outrage among health campaigners and politicians.

They say The Big Donor Show, made by Dutch company Endemol, represents a new low in reality TV and should not be aired.

But the makers have defended the show, saying it is meant to highlight the difficulty of obtaining a kidney donor.

It is the latest in a series of rows over reality TV shows. Channel 4 has been rapped by the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom over the racist bullying in the last series of Celebrity Big Brother.

Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf said The Big Donor Show, on channel BNN, would see a dying 37-year-old woman - identified only as Lisa - choose from three people with kidney problems.

She will make her choice based on the contestants' history, profile and conversations with their families and friends.

Viewers will be able to send text messages advising her during the 80-minute show.

BNN chairman Laurens Drillich said: "The chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%.

"This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list. You would expect it to be better but it is worse."

Reiner Hofmann, spokesman for the Dutch Transplant Foundation, said the show was "a scandal".

He told The Sun newspaper: "It is no better than selling organs - they are taking advantage of people in a desperate situation for entertainment."

Members of the ruling coalition parties the Christian Democrats and the conservative Christian Union have called the show "wretched" and unethical.

It is set to be debated in the Dutch parliament this week.

The programme is reportedly the idea of Endemol founder John de Mol.

[Tink]

Oh wow that's just sick.

[Janet]

That is the sickest thing I've ever heard of. Unbelieveable!!!

[DianaB]

Someone has a warped sense of what makes a good game show! How awful!

[Taurus Babe]

interesting....interesting is the level to which reality shows are being taken.

[Mandy]

That show was on tv last week, we are very disgusted about it, so we never watched - all i can wonder now is "whats next"

[AngieDoogles]

This makes me glad that I don't watch TV anymore... (well, other than one show...)

[judy]

I hate to say it, but it makes me so sad to see what the world has become.
I keep hoping that we will soon realize that we have reached bottom, and start coming back up to a global society with good values again.

I was a "hippie" in the 60's and 70's, and we had such high ideals. It was a wonderful time for my generation. People sometimes think we were all about drugs, sex and rock and roll, but that's not what it was for a lot of us. It was about love and peace and compassion and equality, and lot of other great values.

Coming from that era go this one is so disappointing. We thought our philosophy would take over, only to come to a time where values are horrendous for the most part.

But, I still have hope!

[AngieDoogles]

Originally Posted by judy

It was about love and peace and compassion and equality, and lot of other great values.

I wish there were more of that around today...