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When after reading “Mayan Protocol” I strongly agree with this protocol because how I see the situation at hand is once the inmate is dead they have no use for their organs when being put underground or being cremated. They is a lot of steps and precautions that need to happen for this protocol to even begin. What is needed for this protocol to happen is for the courts to have already made their decision about what would happen to the inmate so then after the fact they can start discussing about the organ donation. In this discussion the inmate must agree on the donation and then the process can start to begin. The author Graeme Wood presents a lot of different ideas. At first he describes what can be used from the inmates organs to help

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