re: Should we give life without parole prisoners the chance to commit suicide ?

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Will the prisoners be armed? The lions are...

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They can fashion fangs and claws from the bones of fallen prisoners. Give them time to train and prepare.

Hunger games

Winner gets to move to florida

We should encourage it and assist if necessary

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We should hunt them for sport. Use the proceeds to fund rehabilitation programs.

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Like Hunger Games

No. Not like Hunger Games.



Do you people have zero concept of literary or cinematic history?

#1, hunger games is a remake of Battle Royale.

#2, The Running Man (with Ahnold) preceded that by a couple decades

Which was preceded by the book.
There was also "Surviving the Game"
"The Pest"


And the Grandaddy of them all...
The Most Dangerous Game

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There's a prisoner serving a life term in Tennessee who is petitioning the TN Supreme Court to allow him to commit suicide by physician-assisted euthanasia. He wants to donate his organs to his ailing parents. LINK

I doubt he wins, but it's an interesting twist to the argument. Should prisoners be allowed to donate their organs like this?

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That is an interesting case but I doubt he will win his case.

Another interesting case was Gary Gilmore. He was given the death penalty and wanted it asap. he had to hire a lawyer to fight the ACLU and the state because the state wanted to do an automatic appeal and drag it out for years. Gary said he did , he killed those people and he was guilty and ready to receive his sentence. I respect that he accepted the sentence and did not want all the money spent on the BS of the automatic appeals and stuff.

He also wanted his organs donated. His death by a firing squad made that difficult but he did donate his corneas (a young relative had eye issues but I do not know if they received his. I would imagine the recipient was kept quiet over the whole deal)

ETA - the alleged story of the recipient - After nine months of living with a painful cracked cornea in his right eye, Kay Wells was delighted when his doctor informed him he had a donor. Kay received his first cornea transplant the morning of Jan. 17, 1977 — two hours after convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad.

.. the National Inquirer tracked him down and told him it was Gilmore's. "(The reporter) asked me if my attitude toward life had changed with a killer's eye," recalls Wells, now 63. "I said, 'Yeah, I really hate reporters now.’ ”

... Wells confirmed with his eye doctor, Dr. Oliver Richards Jr., that he did indeed have Gilmore's cornea. With several patients in need of cornea transplants, Richards told Wells he had visited the Utah State Prison and asked Gilmore to consider donation. The prisoner, who had pleaded for the death penalty, agreed.

.. Wells has no qualms about having possibly received a "killer's eye" and remains firmly pro-donation.

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somehow make it back to the US they will be put too death

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And what was the whole point of dropping them off in the middle east or Russia in the first place

We gotta have a guarantee of death so this doesn't happen. I am thinking maybe with a drop in the middle east we can put a sign that reads " Allah can suck my dick!" or something along those lines.

I suggest that some prisoners be offerred the opportunity to volunteer for NASA in space travel experiments. We once used monkeys as test subjects.
I'm referring to one way tickets here.

Sure, a selfish act brought them to prison, why not a selfish act to get them out. Seems consistent to me.