I actually can’t get too worked up over this.
Medically, Sebelius is probably correct; she probably consulted with people who told her that the difference in lung size between a child and adult or adolescent is too great and that such an operation would be unsuccessful.
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 don’t think people pray for “a healthy, vibrant, and alive young person to die so that their sick daughter can get a transplant.”
i think they pray that IF a healthy, vibrant, and alive young person” dies that they have signed a donor card and that their organ will match their child.
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apparently you do not approve of organ donation, consider it a selfish (not selfless act) and do not know the agony that both sides face in making this decision, nor the number of lives saved by this medical procedure which continues to get better and better results
please note that on your records so that you and your minor family members are never considered as recipients for a tranplant!
Sibelius is NOT correct by virtue of her position....the decision should be left to the doctors, not a bureaucrat.
Highly doubtful she contacted a single soul, and with the track record for Dems doing nothing for anyone who can't do anything for them, I'm unwilling to give them the benefit of the doubt.
They enjoy playing God way too much for that.
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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.
You have absolutely no proof that is the case and you assumption anyone 'hopes someone will die' in order to access a viable organ is not only patently disgusting, the statement itself says a great deal about the person who made it.
You have neither the justification nor the information to pass a moral judgment on total strangers and use YOUR moral assumptions to attack their character or motives just because they have a family member on a donor's list.
THANK YOU! I have Pulmonary Fibrosis, terminal w/out a transplant. I agree with you completely.