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Morally, I’m looking at this and thinking, these people are fervently hoping and praying for a healthy, vibrant, and alive young person to die so that their sick daughter can get a transplant. I have real problems with the attitude that strangers are no more than walking spare parts factories to be collected when one’s family member becomes ill. I just cannot support that kind of selfishness. Perhaps these people should just accept the fact that it’s their daughter’s time to go.

Where did you get that idea?

I believe the parents motives are exactly the opposite.

Their daughter has one chance to live. A stranger somewhere might give her that opportunity by generously donating lungs they no longer need; organs that are critical for the child. A cruel and heartless government has denied the young lady that option. The parents are exercising their only remaining option by appealing the bureaucrats' decision to the court of public opinion. They recognize that the young lady may still die from her disease, but if their plea is heard at least she will have a possibility (albeit small one) at life. And that's all they want. Period.

I have to admit that if I were in their circumstances, I would do exactly the same thing that the child's parents are doing right now.

To impute other sinister motives to the parents' actions is not only unfair, it reflects on your own personal character. And I suggest that in your case, a reassessment of your value system is long overdue.

I am a terminal lung patient. The poster who you said was morally in trouble is exactly right. Without a transplant I will be dead within a few months to a year at most. That being said I agree with Sebulis, but OTOH, I can't fault the parents for trying to keep their alive if only for a short time

Their daughter has one chance to live. A stranger somewhere might give her that opportunity by generously donating lungs they no longer need; organs that are critical for the child. A cruel and heartless government has denied the young lady that option. The parents are exercising their only remaining option by appealing the bureaucrats' decision to the court of public opinion. They recognize that the young lady may still die from her disease, but if their plea is heard at least she will have a possibility (albeit small one) at life. And that's all they want. Period.
I have to admit that if I were in their circumstances, I would do exactly the same thing that the child's parents are doing right now.

To impute other sinister motives to the parents' actions is not only unfair, it reflects on your own personal character. And I suggest that in your case, a reassessment of your value system is long overdue.

It doesn't matter what kind of semantics you use. The fact is, to get an organ "donation", someone must die. (With the exception of kidney transplants.)

If I were in that position, there is no way I would have myself or my child put on a transplant wait list. I do not have the right to actively hope for a stranger to die for my benefit. Nor do I have the right to wish the agony of loss on another family just so I can have their loved one's spare parts.

No, I do not see anything wrong with my value system at all.