Does “organ harvesting from live people” really exist?
On August 21st 2007, xinhuanet.com published the “The Death of a Beggar” article. However, it didn’t report the fact that Tong Gefei was alive when the doctors took his organs. According to the report published on July 24th by the newspaper Yangcheng Night, defendant Wang Chaoyang said at the trial, “When the doctors were removing organs from Tong’s body, Tong suddenly raised his arm and scratched the arm of the doctor. Another doctor then stepped on Tong’s arm. Soon they finished.” In fact, it is very critical to acquire high-quality organs for successful organ transplants. Taking organs from live people is ideal in order to ensure high-quality organs. When killing prisoners that received death sentences in China, they would fire a gun from close distance and not directly into the brain. Therefore, the prisoners would be in a deep coma state. As for the beggar case, Wang Chaoyang was planning to have Tong’s organs taken and therefore it made sense that he wanted to keep Tong alive, re
