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((About|the short story|the 1983 film|The Jigsaw Man (film)))
((refimprove|date=December 2009))
((Infobox short story
| name              = The Jigsaw Man
| author            = [[Larry Niven]]
| country           = America
| language          = [[English language|English]]
| series            = 
| genre             = [[Science fiction]]
| published_in      = [[Dangerous Visions]]
| publication_type  = [[anthology]]
| publisher         = [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]
| media_type        = Print ([[Hardcover]])
| pub_date          = 1967
))
"'''The Jigsaw Man'''" is a [[science fiction]] [[short story]] by American writer [[Larry Niven]], set in the ''[[Known Space]]'' [[Fictional universe|universe]]. The story was first published in [[Harlan Ellison]]'s anthology ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'', and is included in Niven's collections ''[[All the Myriad Ways]]'' and ''[[Tales of Known Space]]''.

==Plot summary==
In the future, criminals convicted of [[Capital punishment|capital offenses]] are forced to donate all of their organs to medicine, so that their body parts can be used to save lives and thus repay society for their crimes. However, [[Organlegging#The organ bank problem|high demand for organs]] has inspired lawmakers to lower the bar for execution further and further over time.

The protagonist of the story, certain that he will be convicted of a capital crime, but feeling that the punishment is unfair, escapes from prison and decides to do something really worth dying for. He vandalizes the [[organ harvesting]] facility, destroying a large amount of equipment and harvested organs, but when he is recaptured and brought to trial, this crime does not even appear on the charge sheet, as the prosecution is already confident of securing a conviction on his original offense: repeated traffic violations.

==Reception==
[[Algis Budrys]] criticized the story's "false basic premise", stating that although Niven implied that the story's premise could occur soon, despite widespread shortages terminally ill people's blood was not being extracted. He concluded that "Niven looks a little ridiculous this time ... [it] is neither good lecture nor good story".<ref name="budrys196804">((Cite magazine
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 |date=April 1968
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In early 2023, the State of Massachusetts considered a bill to allow Massachusetts prisoners to donate organs and/or bone marrow to hospitals - with some speculation this would encouraged, in exchange to earning time off their sentence.<ref>((Cite news |url= https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/01/30/early-release-from-prison-for-organ-donations-maybe-in-massachusetts/amp/ |title= Early release from prison for organ donations? Maybe in Massachusetts |last1=Medsger |first1=Matthew))</ref><ref>((Cite web |url= https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/HD3822 |title= An Act to establish the Massachusetts incarcerated individual bone marrow and organ donation program |publisher=The State of Massachusetts))</ref><ref>((Cite act |url= https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/HD3822.pdf |legislature=Massachusetts General Assembly |title=An Act to establish the Massachusetts incarcerated individual bone marrow and organ donation program |type=House Docket |index=3822 |date=January 20, 2023))</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
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[[Category:Known Space stories]]
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[[Category:Dangerous Visions short stories]]


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