Yep! ...I'd watch it. Very strange idea....& a very strange & yet powerful position for the 'donor' to be in. She gets to play the idea that is 'GOD" - who lives & who dies. ( & will 'god' stand for that)? Nope.Outcry over TV kidney competitionS BO S IIMAThe show comes from Big Brother creators EndemolE IIMA S SFA Dutch TV station says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys.Political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN says it will highlight the country's shortage of organ donors."It's a crazy idea," said Joop Atsma, of the ruling Christian Democrat Party."It can't be possible that, in the Netherlands, people vote about who's getting a kidney," he told the BBC. E SFThe programme, from Big Brother creators Endemol, is due to be screened on Friday night.'Totally unacceptable'S IIMASpecialists in kidney transplants have condemned the programmeE IIMA The 37-year-old donor, identified only as Lisa, will make her choice based on the contestants' history, profile and conversation with their family and friends.Viewers will also be able to send in their advice by text message during the 80-minute show.The Dutch donor authority has condemned the show, as have kidney specialists in the UK."The scenario portrayed in this programme is ethically totally unacceptable," said Professor John Feehally, who has just ended his term as president of the UK's Renal Association."The show will not further understanding of transplants," he added. "Instead it will cause confusion and anxiety."S IBOXHAVE YOUR SAYI thought organ recipients were chosen on who is the closest match, not who the donor likes the mostSteve Davies, Romford, UKS ILINSend us your commentsE ILINE IBOX Professor Feehally also pointed out that, under normal circumstances, two people would benefit from a donor, each receiving one kidney."The set up of the programme bears no relationship to the way decisions are made about transplants in the real world," he said."Living donors can choose altruistically to give one of their kidneys - usually to a family member."If organs become available after someone dies, health professionals with access to detailed information about those waiting for a transplant make objective decisions about who should receive those particular kidneys."'Shocking'S IIMABNN chairman Laurens Drillich has defended the showE IIMA The former director of TV station BNN, Bart de Graaff, died from kidney failure aged 35 after spending years on a transplant waiting list."The chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%," said the station's current chairman, Laurens Drillich. "This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list.""We think that is disastrous, so we are acting in a shocking way to bring attention to this problem.""For years and years we have had problems in the Netherlands with organ donations and especially kidney donations," agreed Alexander Pechtold of D-66, the Dutch social liberal party."You can have a discussion about if this is distasteful, but finally we have a public debate," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.TV critics in the UK have expressed horror at the programme, but said such a show would be unlikely in Britain."My first reaction, probably everyone's reaction, is that this is as dangerously near as we've got to a TV programme playing God," said Julia Raeside of the Guardian newspaper."People may live or die on the result of a game show. It's a step too far."I don't think this is anything to do with reality TV. It's just a crazy idea that would never play out over here."The outcry comes at a difficult time for production company Endemol, who were censured by Ofcom last week for their handling of the Celebrity Big Brother racism row.The Australian version of Big Brother has also drawn criticism for not telling a contestant that her father had died.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6699847.stmI like to watch BB.....there's a young christian woman this year as a contestant - she's being nominated for having her 'head in the clouds'.. its quite funny!........she's coming to grips with the idea that not everyone in the whole place naturally 'loves' her or appreciates her 'moral' values of wanting to care for everyone. She comes across as a bit of dipshit.
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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God
since when? Competition for survival..is what the global economy is all about...the world's resources are deemed to be in the 'rightful' hands. Ask any American to give up their gas guzzler....or paying more for their tank full, less often.... instead of raging war in Iraq? 
