California Research Program Experiments on People with “Life-Shortening” Conditions

When assisted suicide/euthanasia is legalized, people who are eligible to be killed because they are seriously ill may become objectified by their societies. For example, they may be thought of as so many organ farms to be harvested after their lives are ended.

Such objectification of the sick can be infectious. In California, there is a new research program called Last Gift that seeks people with "life-shortening" conditions who also have HIV to be experimented on — not to find cures or ways to extend their lives, but to better understand the virus. From the Last Gift research subject solicitation:

UC San Diego is looking for altruistic people with HIV, who have been diagnosed with a life-shortening disease and reside in San Diego County. The Last Gift tissue donation research study aims to understand the behavior of HIV in the human body — giving scientists the rare opportunity to learn where the virus hides in an individual and inspire medical advancements for generations to come.

I think it is worth noticing that Anthony Fauci's old outfit, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is a funder of the program.