How 'bout a little Bodily Organ Theft?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/world/asia/30kidney.html?_r=2&ref=health&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

“We suspect around 400 or 500 kidney transplants were done by these doctors over the last nine years,” said Mr. Lal, the Gurgaon police commissioner.

Key number, "500."


You may call it crime, or perhaps bio-snatching, howabout good old 'vampirism?'

Of course we're not talking about the undead, perhaps these vampires are 'pre-dead.' Possibly these doctors are selling them, and the people who get them have no idea, but perhaps its the rich, and they wouldn't care if they knew or not.

Theft of a person's bodily fluids, organs, tissues, is by one good definition, "vampirism."

Of course its figurative.

But, why does it seem so appropriate? Because its evil, and the worst kind.

Whether you're taking a person's 'energy' or kidneys, or DNA, there's no modern appropriate word for it other than 'vampirism.' Sure its a 'kind' of vampirism as some modern pop-culture vampire encyclopedias might print...okay, maybe they wouldn't print that, because they're too busy trying to sell the 'hollywood corpse' concept, along with Sean Manchester...

Eh, we're not going to get into that right now. Soon enough we'll look at the whole undead corpse thing, I'm sure people are confused about what I think, because of my cynicism towards this general idea that on one hand the folklore seems to be suggesting 'corpse vampires' and modern pop-culture pushes 'fantasy non-corpse' vampires, while these encyclopedists or 'believers' want to believe in the real undead-corpse vampires, and perhaps there's something else going on here, an 'invisible folklore,' but we'll save that for another time.

I call this 'vampirism,' in the true sociopathic sense. Perhaps its the very bottom level, organ-jacking, but blood, organs, brains, whatever, people are doing this to people for God's sake, and this is the the very core of why vampirism is supposed to be evil.

Which black-clad goth is going to defend these Jack-the-Rippers? You?

Vampires are evil ladies, and gentlemen, they always were, they always will be.