Your Body, Their Profit

Coma is a 1977 novel written by Robin Cook. It follows a third year medical student at Boston Memorial Hospital where patients are suddenly going into comas due to surgical complications. The real reason is much more sinister. The unfortunate patients are going into a warehouse and their organs are being harvested for profit. Coma was turned into a movie in 1978. Here’s the movie trailer. It was also turned into a miniseries in 2012. Here’s the miniseries trailer.

Never Let Me Go is a 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was also made into a film in 2010. It follows a group of children at an isolated boarding school who are all clones and growing up knowing that one day their organs will be harvested and they’ll die. Here’s the movie trailer.

The Island is a a 2005 science fiction action film.

“The film is about two human clones, Lincoln Six Echo (Ian McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johansson), who live in a utopian compound isolated from the outside world. After Lincoln learns that the compound inhabitants are clones used for organ harvesting as well as surrogacy for wealthy people, the two escape with the goal of exposing the illegal cloning movement.”

Here’s the movie trailer.

Repo Men is a 2010 science fiction action film

“By 2025, advancements in medical technology have perfected bio-mechanical organs. The Union corporation sells these expensive "artiforgs" on credit, and when customers fail to pay on time, the company sends "repo men" to forcibly repossess the organ—in which the customer is tased and offered the request of an ambulance, sometimes resulting in the customer's death.”

The film also deals with one of the repo men who is a customer himself and his efforts to get himself out of the system.

Here’s the movie trailer.

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