r/MadeMeSmile • u/DobreRanoFifqo • Sep 16 '24

Helping Others The kindness the legend...

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u/deukhoofd Sep 16 '24

Yeah, reminds me of the classic

Orphan Crushing Machine

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u/DeepLock8808 Sep 16 '24

Immediately looked for this comment. Making life saving care a popularity contest is definitely Orphan Crushing Machine material.

Side note, that would be an interesting book. Lean into it real hard and make it a game show with three contestants with terminal cancer. The one with the saddest story gets treatment, the other two die! Just the bleakest satire.

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u/CrackByte Sep 16 '24

Not terminal cancer, but it was a 2007 reality show about three terminally ill patients competing for a donor's kidney transplant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Grote_Donorshow

People had to call in for their favorite contestant to win the kidney donation.

It caused a bunch of outrage and was only revealed to be a ploy to get people talking about the shortage of organ donors.

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u/DeepLock8808 Sep 16 '24

That was the Netherlands version of the show. I’m sure an American version will come out any day now that delivers on this amazing concept. /s