Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.
Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.
People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.
Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?
More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.