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Never Let Me Go (Part 3 - GD IB Theme), Never Let Me Go Part 2 (Extract…

- - - - UK (OPT-OUT SYSTEM)
        -a system that registered you automatically as a donor
        -after you die, the hospital will have full authorization towards your body
        -Your organ will be taken out for the donation
        -respects the beliefs and values of the citizen, those who don’t want to give away their bodies can ask for an opt-out
        RESULT
        -increase in organ transplant successful rate
        -lower death cases due to the shortage of organ
      - MALAYSIA (OPT-IN SYSTEM)
        -Anyone can sign up to be an organ or tissue donor unless suffering from infectious diseases (HIV etc)
        ISSUE
        -the current supply of transplantable organs is much lower than needed
        -organ harvesting and trafficking
        ETHICAL CONCERNS
        -expensive surgery
        -definition of death???
    - - SUPERHUMAN
        -Meet Graham creates a plan of a superhuman that can survive a car crash
        -features (no neck, layered skin and enlarged bone)
        -although the look is very ugly and strange, surprisingly it’s the model that can resist car crash
        ETHICS
        -What does it mean to be human when you have to create for altered one?
    - - Therapeutic cloning
        
        -use in medicine and transplant
        -Method: SCNT and pluripotent stem cell induction
      - Human Cloning
        (Reproductive)
        
        -the creation of a genetically identical copy or a clone of a human
        -raised controversies
        
        in 2018, it was reported that about 70 countries had banned human cloning
        
        UK
        -Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001 which explicitly prohibited reproductive cloning.
        -The remaining gap with regard to therapeutic cloning was closed when the appeals courts reversed the previous decision of the High Court.
        -The first license was granted on August 11, 2004, to researchers at the University of Newcastle to allow them to investigate treatments for diabetes, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
        -created The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 allows experiments on hybrid human-animal embryos.
        
        Singapore
        -Malaysia’s developed neighbourhood country
        -Section 5 of the Human Cloning and Other Prohibited Practices Act 2004 prohibits placing human embryo clone in body of human or animal.