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“This person suffering from hereditary defects
costs the people 60,000 Reichmarks during his lifetime.
People, that is your money. Read ‘New People’.”
Posted on 03/04/2009 4:30:31 PM PST by BykrBayb
So, the opinion of a few snowboarders you know should take precedent over the patient's parents?
From the story: "Gregory was alive before defendants started surgery and suffocated him in order to harvest his organs" including his heart, liver and kidneys, according to the suit."
Nurse X testified in an affidavit that, she told the doc the patient was still alive and protesting the insertion of the tube. The doc responded with a string of expletives and ordered nurse X out of the room. Once out of the room nurse X witnessed nurse Y run out of the room and subsequently return with a pillow. Feathers were later found by the coroner in the 18y/o's lungs, which matched those from a damaged pillow found in the hospital dumpster. :)
Who are you describing? Your friend’s son, or the victim in this case, Gregory Jacobs? Because I didn’t see anything about an EKG, .1% activity, a 48 hour wait, or signs of organic deterioration.
I'll sell you a kidney.
Not one of mine, though.
Terri Schiavo wasn't on life support.
Do you have a list of disabilities that you think should result in the loss of personhood and have them reclassified as "spare parts"? What about a person who is nearsighted and has asthma, do they get to live? How about someone in a wheelchair?
I don’t need any kidneys, thanks. I’d sell you one of mine, but like I said, you don’t want it.
I missed those comments.
Organ transplantation is covered my many rules and laws and intensely studied by ethecists. There are many checks and ballances.
But there is ongoing debate:
They do not remove the breathing tube until the organs are out.
Do you mean they’re not supposed to. Or are you claiming to have inside information that that’s the procedure that was followed in this instance?
quite unfunny
With that being said, a number of years ago my half-brother was involved in an auto accident while on business in California. For all intents and purposes, he was brain dead and lay in a coma for a little over a week. My step-father had to make the heartbreaking decision to remove all life support and give the ok to harvest Scott's organs in order to help save someone else.......Virtually all his organs were able to be transferred to someone in need.
Scott would never have recovered and thankfully his dad realized this. I pray that those who received Scott's gifts have recovered and that they were informed about what a wonderful person their donor was........
I really, really miss you Scott.........
It’s not inside information.
You don’t harvest organs from dead people. You have to keep the patient ‘breathing’ until you harvest.
Does that mean you don’t know whether they followed proper procedure this time, or does it mean you do know for a fact that they followed proper procedure this time?
My condolences on the lost of your friend.
What really bothered me...my Dad died 5 years ago at age one month short of 85.
Hello...who wants life saving organs from an 85 yr old.
My Dad, with all his class, would not die with any of us there. I got to the hospital ten minutes after he died. Good, Cleveland hospital.
After not one, two or seven requests for his organs....it was sad... I feel kinda bad for the intern that came asking for his eyes. I told him that if he could not leave me in peace with my Father, I would gladly claw out his eyes and donate them in his name.
He turned whiter than the whitest sheet you can ever see,
Bad experience.
Sounds like Mom and Dad are having a LOT of trouble letting go. I’ve known a few snowboarders in my time, and they would not want to spend life as some sort of vegetable.
theissue here isconsent
I thought so too, and jumped all over him for it. I overreacted, and now I’m truly sorry I did that.
I think you answered your question-—my friend’s son. They kept him on machines for the 48 hours but was pronounced DOA.
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