“My question is, who is going to die instead of this girl, if she gets their lung?”
You have been flayed like a mule for asking this question, which is entirely reasonable to ask.
First off, nobody is advocating this girl die - you certainly aren’t.
What folks fail to grasp because it’s an uncomfortable question (and it’s easier to beat on the guy asking the question than think about answering it) is that with many, if not most transplants somebody (or group) has to decide who gets what organs.
People are excluded all the time, and presumably end up sicker or dead than they otherwise would be. There is a reason why - even if people may not agree with it.
What people are having trouble accepting is that the best move is to save as many lives with the organs available. It is entirely possible that this girl may not fit the description of someone who has a good chance of being saved. As dehumanizing as that sounds, that’s the type of decision this is.
Keeping the press and politics out of it is the best course. That is not the course for this young lady - it’s politicized already.
One hopes that she gets an organ that would otherwise go unused, but you have to accept the possibility that someone who is just as worthy - but not able to generate press attention will die simply because someone didn’t care enough to raise awareness so a nameless, faceless patient could compete for an available lung.
Those that cheer for the young lady are not thinking about this. they are thinking only about her, which is fine, but it doesn’t mean there isn’t a nameless, faceless, possibly less photogenic person out there that could possibly die for want of a lung that a non-politicized process would have made available to them.
That was your point, I believe. It’s a valid one.
Yes... I agree.
You get it. Really, it means the media is who is in control, which is even worse. Another slippery slope.