David EdwardsShall we harvest the organs of the dead English rugby league team??
November 3rd 2008 00:02
English rugby league officially died last night, according to medical experts at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital.
In front of a horrified Melbourne crowd, Australia trounced the defenceless English outfit 52-4, leading onlookers to describe the slaughter as "unprovoked".
As the English rugby league team lies in St Vincent's Hospital, presumably brain dead, several prominent doctors have called for the English players' organs to be cultivated for donation, before they are rendered useless.
Tony Fingleton, a leading expert in the field of organ donation, has stressed the need to act now. "The team is clinically dead", Fingleton said last night, from his St Kilda home. "If we leave the bodies for too long, they will descend into an atrophic state, leading to quick decomposition."
"Keeping this team on life-support will only cost the Australian tax-payer, whereas if we act now we can donate these organs to young Tongan, Samoan and Papuan children who are in urgent need of these organs."
The proposition to donate the organs of these clinically dead footballers to needy Pacific Islander children has sparked a conservative backlash from right-wingers, who are calling for the English footballers to be held on life support. Arguably having been on life support for the last eight years, the English team's situation has become a moral issue for activists and pro-life supporters.
Anti-donation lobbyist Patrick Bigota has argued that the English be allowed to continue their World Cup campaign in their clinically dead state. Bigota, in a press conference yesterday, argued, "Half the teams in this World Cup are clinically dead. Yet to turn off this life support would be akin to murder in the third degree."
Cameron Smith, the Australian captain, was quick to quash rumours that their opposition was as good as dead, saying, "We can't afford to take our opposition too lightly in these next few weeks. Smith added, "They (England) may be clinically dead, but our greatest threat at this stage is complacency.
"I agree that organ donation is an important yet controversial topic, but i think it would undermine the integrity of this World Cup if doctors were to harvest the organs of our opponents before the competition actually ends. The win would feel slightly hollow, for me, anyway."
Sadly, it seems as if these vital organs will remain unharvested, leaving the Australian side with a clear path to victory in this World Cup.
-SportingMind
In front of a horrified Melbourne crowd, Australia trounced the defenceless English outfit 52-4, leading onlookers to describe the slaughter as "unprovoked".
A moral dilemma..
Tony Fingleton, a leading expert in the field of organ donation, has stressed the need to act now. "The team is clinically dead", Fingleton said last night, from his St Kilda home. "If we leave the bodies for too long, they will descend into an atrophic state, leading to quick decomposition."
"Keeping this team on life-support will only cost the Australian tax-payer, whereas if we act now we can donate these organs to young Tongan, Samoan and Papuan children who are in urgent need of these organs."
The proposition to donate the organs of these clinically dead footballers to needy Pacific Islander children has sparked a conservative backlash from right-wingers, who are calling for the English footballers to be held on life support. Arguably having been on life support for the last eight years, the English team's situation has become a moral issue for activists and pro-life supporters.
Anti-donation lobbyist Patrick Bigota has argued that the English be allowed to continue their World Cup campaign in their clinically dead state. Bigota, in a press conference yesterday, argued, "Half the teams in this World Cup are clinically dead. Yet to turn off this life support would be akin to murder in the third degree."
Cameron Smith, the Australian captain, was quick to quash rumours that their opposition was as good as dead, saying, "We can't afford to take our opposition too lightly in these next few weeks. Smith added, "They (England) may be clinically dead, but our greatest threat at this stage is complacency.
"I agree that organ donation is an important yet controversial topic, but i think it would undermine the integrity of this World Cup if doctors were to harvest the organs of our opponents before the competition actually ends. The win would feel slightly hollow, for me, anyway."
Sadly, it seems as if these vital organs will remain unharvested, leaving the Australian side with a clear path to victory in this World Cup.
-SportingMind
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Comment by Norm
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Equal and Opposite
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The answer is maybe.
I can understand a humane death for the English team, but the talk of the yet to be created Mongolian national side getting rudely stripped of its right to a sporting life has me questioning the whole medical fraternity.
It would probably happen anyway - that the governing body of Mongolian sport would terminate the team - but who are they to do such a thing?
Comment by David Edwards
Sporting Mind
I think a pro-life approach should be taken in regards to badly thought out expansion teams. The hasty abortion of the Western Reds ARL team, for example. Who knows what they could have become, if they weren't rudely aborted in their foetal stage.
As Governor Palin said the other day: "All rugby league teams have the right to life, no matter what."
Comment by Norm
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I waited outside their offices. Accosted Malcolm Speed. I said, think of Stuart Law and Phil Emery.
Of course if the Governors of World Rugby League don't allow the Mongolian's Governing Body to end things safely, we'll see them resort to their old ways. The coathanger. And that's no good for anyone's head.
Comment by David Edwards
Sporting Mind
If John Ribot wasn't so adamant in spreading his seed all over Australia, there wouldn't have been the need for so many gruesome abortions in the aftermath of the Super League War. Nevertheless, Ribot and the ARL could have come together peacefully after the war, raising these scorned offspring together.
Same goes for Andrew Demetriou. That filthy expansionist should have had his tubes tied long ago.
Comment by sportsbar
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I have not seen anyone play a shot like it ever since. Lehmann even in his early days was mad.
And what about in the final when Australia 'called up' Australia A's Paul Reiffel only to make him 12th man, how bad was that? Robbing the tournament and Australia A of the most in form bowler for the final....
To league... the sad thing is that England didn't play that badly... Australia were just the freak show clicking into fourth gear... help us if they find another one...
Play of the week - Samoa v Tonga - the game in general, the crowd, the atmosphere, best game of footy i have been to in some time.
Team of the week - Fiji - Tore up WIN stadium and the French to ribbons... the two long range tries from Hayne and Uate were breath-taking.
Catch all the action and stats here: Really Long Link
Comment by sportsbar
Sports Bar
Fret X
I have not seen anyone play a shot like it ever since. Lehmann even in his early days was mad.
And what about in the final when Australia 'called up' Australia A's Paul Reiffel only to make him 12th man, how bad was that? Robbing the tournament and Australia A of the most in form bowler for the final....
To league... the sad thing is that England didn't play that badly... Australia were just the freak show clicking into fourth gear... help us if they find another one...
Play of the week - Samoa v Tonga - the game in general, the crowd, the atmosphere, best game of footy i have been to in some time.
Team of the week - Fiji - Tore up WIN stadium and the French to ribbons... the two long range tries from Hayne and Uate were breath-taking.
Catch all the action and stats here: