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Organ & Body Donations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight · 5M views · 2023-12-04 · 31:37

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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.

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HN cites it in threads about donated bodies and organ transplant failures as a critical look at opaque systems.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2024–2024

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alborzb · 2024-08 · Recommendation

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) [VIDEO]

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throwup238 · 2024-10 · Reference

John Oliver did an episode on organ transplants and it is pretty much a clusterf*ck: [VIDEO] It varies state by state but some of the programs are pretty bad, it's no surprise that something like this happened.

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janice1999 · 2024-01 · Reference

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] [VIDEO]

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