This bit from Monty Python’s THE MEANING OF LIFE, PART 1, is terribly gross and over the top, but it has the germ of a point and came to mind in our discussion of the growing advocacy within bioethics and organ transplant medicine to do away with the dead donor rule and allow living patients to be harvested.
This is definitely NOT for the squeamish!
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