ORGAN DONATION AFTER EXECUTION
by James Leonard Park

Chapter 1
 Voluntary Execution: 
Better than the Death Penalty?

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Instead of imposing capital punishment,
the convicted prisoner is allowed to choose a date of death
rather than imprisonment until natural death.


Chapter 2
Voluntary Execution Followed by Organ Donation

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Some practical steps to smooth the process of execution
and the subsequent harvesting of organs.


Chapter 3
Can a Prisoner Ever Make a Free Choice?

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Several safeguards to separate prisoners
who are making free choices for voluntary execution
from prisoners whose thinking capacity might be questioned.


Chapter 4
Brain-Death as a Method of Voluntary Execution

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Choosing a special method of execution that causes brain-death
without damaging the other organs.


Chapter 5
Brain-Death Protocol for Voluntary Execution followed by Organ Donation

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Procedures that might be followed by the executing authority
in order to achieve a voluntary execution for the donor.
After the prisoner has been certified to be brain-dead,
the donated remains can be given to the transplant-team.


Chapter 6
Death-Row Must Not Become an Organ-Farm:
How to Avoid the Mayan Protocol

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Safeguards to prevent executions
for the purpose of obtaining organs on demand.


Chapter 7
Open Letter to the Family and Friends of a Prisoner
Willing to Donate Organs after Execution

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The other people who know the prisoner
might help the process of making the life-ending decision.


 Chapter 8
Your Organs Can Save Lives:
An Open Letter to Death-Row

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Explaining the option of voluntary execution
to prisoners already condemned to death.


Chapter 9
Making Exceptions to the Rules:
Should Prisoners Be Permitted to Donate their Organs after Execution?
An Open Letter to Wardens, Governors, & Organ-Procurement Doctors:

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There are major objections and problems with organ donation from prisoners.
How can each obstacle be addressed and resolved?


Chapter 10
Do Organs Carry Personal Character?

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Some people believe that human organs contain the personal characteristics of the donor.


Bibliography
Books on Organ Donation after Execution

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Possible appendix
ORGANS FROM THE EXECUTED

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This is the beginning of a proposed three-part article,
with links to the other parts---from a person in need of a heart
and a (projected) part from a prisoner willing to donate organs.



Created September 5, 2013; Revised 9-6-2013; 9-12-2013; 10-3-2013; 10-5-2013;10-30-2013; 12-7-2013; 9-30-2014;

Progress toward Creating the Printed Book

    As of October 2013 the basic pages have been set for
Organ Donation After Execution.
The ten chapters are linked above.
These total 80 pages.

    Additional chapters can be added as appropriate.
Should there be a chapter for non-prisoners called
"Organ Donation After Voluntary Death"?
Should there be a chapter on new methods of execution?

    A typeface has selected for the printed book, Utah 11 points.
Each chapter will have a whole number of pages.
This has resulted in further shortening of the original essays
and some of lines which were still too long for the printed book.

    During the year 2014, one chapter was presented each month
on a Facebook Page called PRISONER ORGAN DONATION:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/PRISONER-ORGAN-DONATION/106888752666731
This would be the best place to post comments and questions.
Just put any responses in the place provided after each chapter.

    Another Facebook Seminar might be created
specifically for the purpose of discussing this book.
If you would like to see this happen, 
use Facebook to send a message to James Leonard Park.
You can be the first member of the new seminar.

    Because there was very limited response to the first seminar,
the chapters will remain there and on the Internet (links above).
And they will be revised from time to time,
perhaps at least once per year.

    If and when there is sufficient demand for a printed book,
that can be created from the computer files that already exist.
In the meantime, all chapters remain available free-of-charge
both on the Internet and on Facebook.



A Facebook Page has been created:
Prisoner Organ Donation.
This group welcomes participation by anyone interested in organ donation from prisoners:
prisoners who have Internet access, family members, friends,
lawyers, prison authorities, transplant surgeons, medical ethicists, journalists, & students.

The Internet Book called Organ Donation After Execution
was presented chapter-by-chapter (one chapter per month)
on this Facebook Page in 2014.


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