Posted on 10/24/2008 8:49:43 PM PDT by MountainLoop
OXFORD, UK, October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - According to Dr. Julian Savulescu, the Uehiro Chair of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, and neonatologist and Oxford graduate student Dominic Wilkinson, bold steps may have to be taken to increase the supply of organs for transplant. This, they say in a co-authored article published today, could be accomplished by removing one simple impediment - the requirement of donor "death." In a separate article, published last week, Wilkinson suggested an even more radical plan – mandatory organ donation.
"We could abandon the dead donor rule," wrote the pair in today’s article, published on Oxford’s Centre of Practical Ethics’ website. "We could for example, allow organs to be taken from people who are not brain dead, but who have suffered such severe injury that they would be permanently unconscious, like Terry Schiavo, who would be allowed to die anyway by removal of their medical treatment."
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Well, how about one of his kidneys, then. I’m sure he wouldn’t miss it.
Now I KNOW I’ve been dropped into a sci-fi novel. The world is getting crazier by the second.
You first...
Forced redistribution of property is so 20th century. It’s all about organs these days.
But I'm using it!!!
/Monty Python...
What a lovely suggestion, Dr. Wilkinson. You first.
Ah, it’s come down to “Practical” ethics now...
And here’s the Web site:
http://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/nstaff.htm
“We could for example, allow organs to be taken from people who are not brain dead...”
or people who are hard sleepers... perhaps even heavy snoozers... couch potatoes... basically anyone who remains stationary for more than 15 minutes.
And, if they don’t respect people carrying around IDs and tags and bracelets that say: “Organs not suitable for transplant”, then people should actually take substances that would preclude their organs for transplant.
For example, a weakened Hepatitis C virus would generate antibodies that would be instantly recognized. But some other diseases would be equally repulsive to the organ takers.
But with such an utter loss of medical ethics, the obvious problem is “What if they don’t care if organs are useless, and use them anyway?”
Does anyone think that the NHS would care at all, if a transplant patient developed a horrible disease? They would probably shrug and suggest they be euthanized.
Okay... waiting for all of the Michael Schiavo defenders.... l, 2, 3.......
First, you have the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford waging a war against Christians, then this guy proposing compulsory organ donation.
Hey Wilkinson - YOU'RE FIRST!
“All of your bodies are belong to us...”!
And people wonder why I’m against Obama. Well all you have to do is look at the loonies in England.
This is right out of a horror novel
Prof. Walter E. Williams, occasional guest host on Rush Limbaugh’s show contends that each person should have the right to SELL their own organs, and the heirs of a deceased should have the right to sell the deceased’s organs as part of the departed’s estate, immediately upon their death.
Prof. Williams says that if he had just died and his daughter was approached about DONATING his organs, she’d throw a hissy and melt into a puddle of tears over the idea of someone removing the organs from her dear departed Daddy. But let the hospital offer her $25 Grand for THIS organ; and $35 Grand for THAT organ; and $50 Grand for the OTHER organ; and she’d go for it without hesitation, and say, “HEY! CUT THAT DUDE!”
My wife and I live in California, up to now we have not be vigorous celebrants of the Second Amendment, this week, we are remedying this. We are going to be ready for what comes in Barrio’s America. I am thinking 2 Mossberg Shotguns and 2 Rugers just to start.
Ya cant take my organs, if ya can’t take me...
:-)
How about if they are slow-moving liberals ?
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