Happy Harvest: The Perverse Incentive to Write off Traumatized Teens in Order to Sell their Organs to Boomers

Noa Pothoven, a 17-year-old Dutch girl, killed by euthanasia after rape trauma—but were her organs also harvested, and at what going rate?

Having aging demographics in the West has created a market for young people’s organs. Though organ trade is legally prohibited, the Erasmus university of the Netherlands just started researching whether offering 50,000€ for a kidney or a piece of liver should be allowed.

You see, though tons of old people die each day, their old organs aren’t useful. To make organ transplants useful, they need to be from young people. But young people generally don’t die very often. And so, there is a high-priced market demand for youthful healthy organs.

This is why you are reading stories about “mentally ill teenagers” being euthanized. Euthanasia of young people is the way to harvest healthy organs for transplants. There is now a perverse incentive to tell depressed young people “they should try euthanasia”.