the media likes to sensationalize, but I’ll bet the drs thru testing thought this girl was brain dead, and were going to let her die a natural death without ventilation, etc....
Its almost 3 am here and i just did home dialysis. In 2 hrs i do another round. Then off to work. What you said probably requires all that time to explore and i’m not going to try any harder than this one post.
The whole thing about brain dead is above my pay grade. If they breathe then they’re alive. If they stop they die. Someone not breathing can donate, someone breathing should never be harvested. I can’t take a simpler stance. Someone wanting to donate organs may be called foolish or stupid by some here, i call them hero.
“the media likes to sensationalize, but I’ll bet the drs thru testing thought this girl was brain dead, and were going to let her die a natural death without ventilation, etc....”
your scenario is just as bad - even without organ harvesting. The girl lived despite the medical care she received. If mom wasn’t there, she’d be dead. These folks were salivating at the thought of a young womans organs being brought to market.
I’ll be their protocols will now include removing the mom from the room as soon as possible so they can get the organs without being bothered with things like a patient being alive.
I sympathize with folks in need of transplant organs.
They are, out of their own necessity, placed on the demand side of a system that profits greatly from, even encourages the deaths of others. We should be honest about this and admit that Hospitals harvest organs for profit. That means that you have to question whether they will act to preserve life every time - if they can profit from someones organs if they simply withhold treatment and allow “natural death” as you say happened in this case.
If this girl ever recovers, what’s the chance she’ll voluntarily be an organ donor I wonder?
It’s a moral grey area - as this specific instance proves.