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To: Benito Cereno
The hospital is handling this very poorly.

Yes, exactly. This dispute was almost certainly kicked off by the hospital's high-handed and supremely arrogant behavior toward this family.

Having been on the wrong end of such officious treatment by doctors and hospitals myself, I understand how this family feels. Many families are quickly cowed into submitting to having the plug pulled prematurely on a loved one. But every once in awhile, some relative will stand up and say "Like hell you won't!"

I wonder if there was a "transplant team" lurking in the background, just waiting to swoop in and "harvest" the girl's organs?

That is often the motivation behind hospital pressuring parents into too-hastily consigning their children to death.

And how many people know that the definition of "brain death" was conjured up just in the last few decades ... for the very purpose of promoting transplantion of "fresh" organs from still-living patients (i.e., still alive, by the traditional definition of death).

Such a rosy picture is painted by the organ transplant industry, that few people know the ugly truth about what actually happens when organs are "harvested" from a patient who has been declared "brain dead" (who, at that point, ceases to be considered a patient).

As the transplant surgeons cut into the un-anesthetized patient's donor's vital organs, his or her body often thrashes about violently ... even a "brain dead" patient resists this atrocious assault on his or her body.

27 posted on 12/30/2013 6:15:25 PM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: shhrubbery!

Always dangerous to paint every situation with your painful experiences from the past.

You are making statements that are all too broad and over generalized and frankly they are out and out lies. IF this story had happened in China then maybe I would agree with you. This child has been brain dead long enough and on a ventilator to make any of her organs useless in a transplant. Your ignorance is only superseded by your pain


49 posted on 12/30/2013 8:14:50 PM PST by Nifster
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