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Well, being about as paranoid as a functioning adult can be, I totally agree with you on the dangers of organ donation! Beyond that, I might check the box on my drivers license if I could know who my internal bits were going to help prior to my demise. Really, if there is an after life, surely having one’s heart save the life of a liberal, or other type of criminal, would insure eternal damnation.

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I think life saving procedures such as kidney transplants, bone marrow donating, etc … are wonderful too.

Have a great day V!

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I’m not a big fan of organ donation because I think it has the potential to cause doctors to hasten deaths in the name of helping others. That’s just my opinion

I read somewhere that emergency room personal take their sweet time to care for incoming patients if they are designated organ donors. Not sure of the validity of that but it made me wonder.

Does that make any sense? Letting one human being die to save another? How warped is that?

If either of the two evil dem candidates become president (God forbid) and National (socialist) health care comes into effect it will be frightening indeed. If the state literally owns your body then they will have the first say???

Kidney donation is a life saver in my family. I have a little niece that had to undergo several transplant operations. God Bless her little heart. She was born with a kidney defect the name of which escapes me at the moment. But she is a tiny sweet true miracle, to have made it through all of those transplants beginning at a very young age, she was itty bitty. It still makes me tear up.

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Bridget,

Once again, you are able to put into words how I feel about organ donation. I personally know people who were so harassed by the organ donation people when their son was in a critical car accident that it was disgusting. They lectured my friends and tried to make them feel like crap when their son was on a respirator fighting for his life. As if that wouldn’t be bad enough in itself?! Well, because my friend’s son was declared brain dead by two doctors, and the accident was in TX, they were forced to take him off the respirator before they were ready to. We’re not talking weeks, but a couple of days. Their son, and our friend, went home to be with the Lord and the organ donation people were livid when our friends didn’t change their minds and donate his organs.

I see nothing wrong with donating blood, bone marrow, eggs, sperm - anything regenerative. The liver regenerates, too. One kidney - person stays alive.

I dislike the idea that we ought to “save lives” at all cost. To me, saving a life is about not allowing others to be killed, first and foremost. Then, it’s about medical treatment and good care. I do not think that “saving a life” is done by leeching off of another person’s body. Sorry.

I’ve pointed out before, and will continue to do so, that the “greater good” would theoretically demand that I allow myself to be killed so that my (very healthy, very strong) organs could be harvested. How many lives could be saved if my lungs, liver, pancreas, kidneys, bone marrow, and other organs were used to help those who are desperately ill? Why is my life more important than the lives of several people?

We know that type thinking is just stupid. For some reason, though, transplant physicians think that way, and many other doctors do, too. I can’t help but think that the “get the organs” (”the organs,” not, say, “Tammi’s organs,” which emphasises their rightful, unalienable owner) mentality contributed to this.

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