Posted on 07/07/2011 3:55:43 PM PDT by wagglebee
I never liked the idea and the more I’ve learned the more I detest it. Plus I found out that people who have transplanted organs always (or maybe mostly?) have to take strong drugs to repress their immune systems to prevent their bodies rejected the foreign organs. Sounds grotesque.
Some more “benefits” looming from Obama Care......
BTW, “Brain Death” was created as a legal response to improvements in “extremis care”, (i.e. life support), to answer the plaints of family wishing for some dignity for their kin. Its a process fraught with pitfalls, and conflicting requirements and obligations as I can attest. >PS
I am on the marrow donor list and have often had second thoughts. If I’m a match for someone ‘above my class,’ what are the chances that something could ‘happen’ to me? There was an old TV show called ‘The Immortal’ I believe. Kind of like the fugitive, a guy whose blood had special restorative powers was stalked by an old dude who had been rejuvenated by a transfusion. Was far-fetched at the time, but now...
Thanks for posting. Thanks to all posters.
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I have written on the back of my driver’s license, “Not an organ donor,” just in case the lack of organ donation card isn’t enough.
I don’t like the idea of organ transplants. The way I see it is that when someone gets placed onto a transplant list, they are actively hoping that someone else, who is alive and healthy right now, will die. I have a HUGE moral problem with that.
If I am that sick, that only an organ transplantation can save my life, what right do I have to fervently hope that a healthy person should die? Maybe, if my health is that bad, it is time to accept that my time is coming to its end?
“I saw this same thing happen with a 17 year old boy in the 70’s. Because of that, I will not sign the organ donor thing on the back of drivers license. “
Quincy did a show on that, decades ago. Even though the intent of the (Hollywood) producers was to convince people that ‘mistakes’ never happen - it convinced me to never trust those people, when you’re worth a lot more to them in pieces than intact.
First they give this poor woman food she can’t handle eating.. Then they leave the room so she can choke herself into a coma.. Then they ineptly pronounce her brain dead.. Then they want to steal her organs! UnFreakin’Real!!!
I’ve come to loathe hospitals.
Exactly. Keeping life in the earthly body at the expense of others is evil. There is a natural beginning and a natural end to life in the mortal coil. Death is not a tragedy when naturally occurring; sad if premature for sure, but clinging to life in the body when it's time to continue the journey elsewhere is not a happy or peaceful way to live.
I try to take of most health things at home with herbs and other measures. Doctors (for me) are when nothing else works.
Same here.
I like your tagline!
I would rethink the list tbing if I were you.
“While supporting the possibility of donation, her shocked family first demanded further medical tests to prove Gauron was really dead.”
Talk about being too close for comfort.
Thank God she made it, and it’s a lesson for us all.
bump—they want our parts
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