"But think of it. You were lucky pawns" (266). So Hailsham isn't the only school like this. There are other ones, run by the government, but are completely horrible and inhumane. I guess Miss Emily is more optimistic about the whole thing, yes they will die very soon, and no they won't have a normal life. But hey, at least they didn't grow up in awful living conditions, and at least they didn't have a mindset of "I'm being raised just to be killed." Because isn't that what they're doing? Slowly taking away what they need to survive to give to another human-who for some reason, is more important than them-and by doing so, slowly killing them from the inside out. Apparently, some don't deserve the organs they're given and need to donate them to others. The way this world works doesn't seem like it'll be in the distant future for us. Cloning has already begun, and it won't take us too long to understand the possibilities it will bring.