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To: Haiku Guy
I have Pulmonary Fibrosis. Terminal without lung transplantation. Reading this article only confirms after much research and thought, confirms to me that organ transplanting is unnatural and ghoulish.

My mind can't comprehend sitting by the phone day and night, waiting and hoping for someone to die so that I might extend my life a few years.

7 posted on 02/25/2014 2:56:58 AM PST by Coldwater Creek
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To: Coldwater Creek

I am all for voluntary organ donation. The problem is that the state gets involved, and starts acting like the state, maximizing control and standardizing procedures for its own convenience.

For instance, in my home state of New Jersey, there is a tick box on the Drivers License. It used to mean that you designated yourself an organ donor for the purposes of transplant. Who could object to that? I used to check that box without even thinking about it.

The last time I was in to get my license renewed, I read the pamphlet, and it the new rule is that by checking the box, you give the State of New Jersey the right to use your body for any one of a number of purposes in addition to life saving organ donation, such as medical research or as a training cadaver in schools. Now, I don’t mind if somebody takes a few spare parts before putting the rest of me in the ground, but I do not want to be used as a training cadaver in Mrs. Crabapples 7th Grade Biology Class. Unfortunately, the State of New Jersey does not have a mechanism for you to agree to one without the other, so nobody checks the box.

The result is that the State of New Jersey hoodwinks a few people who don’t read the pamphlet into being used for things they never envisioned, but the number of organs available for transplant goes down, as everybody who reads the pamphlet is horrified.


8 posted on 02/25/2014 3:21:10 AM PST by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: Coldwater Creek

Sorry to hear about your situation.

Thanks for posting your concerns: “Reading this article only confirms after much research and thought, confirms to me that organ transplanting is unnatural and ghoulish.”

My wife was an RN all of her adult life, we know many RNs and Doctors, who swore to never do any harm and to prolong life where possible.

Where will these people be when ObozoCare demands that they remove a liver, lung, kidneys or what ever from a still warm body with the process to keep the organs viable still going?


12 posted on 02/25/2014 4:01:44 PM PST by Grampa Dave ( Obozo Care is a Trinity of Lies! Obozo Care is probably a serious Black Swan event.)
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