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New Jersey Looking to Harvest More Organs by Easing "Brain Death" Criteria
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| 6/16/06
| Hilary White
Posted on 06/16/2006 4:50:48 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: Gordongekko909
Post-mortem payments to estates are cool; it will encourage more people to be organ donors. Potentially not cool. If your hostile ex-wife is your only available next of kin, and has to decide if the plug should be pulled, do you want her to have an extra reason to off you?
I have not checked off to be an organ donor. I do not want to be in a hospital just when some vip needs my heart
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posted on
06/16/2006 5:55:31 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
To: wagglebee
It's just business right?
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posted on
06/16/2006 5:57:38 PM PDT
by
dljordan
To: mware
Sadly, Singer is not using hyperbole in this description. Organs are taken from bodies with still beating hearts. Many/most organs are useless if the body actually dies and the heart stops beating before it is cut open.
I spent a horrifying but enlightening train ride with a transplant nurse once between Ann Arbor and Chicago.
I will never sign an organ donor card. I told my kids dont' bother signing one, because I will never give my approval for them to donate or receive organs.
Harsh, yes, but I truly think it is cannablistic that we 'harvest' from live people.
Pinz
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posted on
06/16/2006 5:57:44 PM PDT
by
pinz-n-needlez
(Charter Snowflake, Rummy fan)
To: wagglebee
Disgusting but not surprising. Does anyone remember the book 'Coma' by Dr.Robin Cooke? It is about this type of thing. Very frightening 20 years ago. At that time nobody thought the idea would come to fruition.
To: wagglebee
Tammy Faye
I hear she's reengaged to Dan Rather....you know....fake but authentic.
Would Dan have ever imagined that he's a natural for Tammy Faye?!
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:04:20 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
To: xzins
Wow....nearly braindead... I nominate Cindy Sheehan, the Dixie Chicks, Babs Streisand, John Murtha, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, .... You forgot GOP's former NJ governor Chrissie Todd Dimwitt.
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:04:50 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)
To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
thanks, it's posted here, I just hope everyone I pinged wrote/e-mailed the NJ Medical Board.
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:04:58 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
To: cva66snipe
And we must not forget the absolute dumbest politician in American History: Walter F. Mondale.
I nominate him for Total Braindead.
(Anybody got a link to the Saturday Night Live clip on dear Walter?)
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:08:34 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
To: originalbuckeye
New Jersey is an interesting place. You can't get your eggs over easy (cause they're not fully cooked) without a court order, BUT....you can cut a man's heart out of his chest before he's fully dead.
The "Over Easy Corpse Special."
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:15:30 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
To: xzins
And we must not forget the absolute dumbest politician in American History: Walter F. Mondale. If we go on the lack of intelligence as being a sign of brain dead then we'd loose about two thirds of congress as well with a very few senators qualifying as living with brain function. Hollywood would be a ghost town. Seriously were on the very fast track now of the slippery slope. Anyone have a gif of the a Fiddler?
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:16:21 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)
To: SauronOfMordor
If your hostile ex-wife is your only available next of kin These things can be clearly spelled out in a will. No reason to have a hostile ex-wife involved.
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:20:04 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: Revel
This will be a good reason to not be on an organ donor list. It might get you hacked up before your time.New Jersey appears to be in the lead for states gaining the right to harvest organs from living conservatives to benefit liberals.
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:20:33 PM PDT
by
meyer
(A vote for amnesty is a vote against America.)
To: 2nd amendment mama; A2J; Agitate; AliVeritas; Alouette; Annie03; aposiopetic; attagirl; Augie76; ...
As Crazieman once said, "Slippery slope? Try cliff diving." ProLife Ping!
If anyone wants on or off my ProLife Ping List, please notify me here or by freepmail.
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:36:10 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(Try Jesus--If you don't like Him, satan will always take you back.)
To: xzins
I nominate Cindy Sheehan, the Dixie Chicks, Babs Streisand, John Murtha, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, ....Between social diseases and heavy drinking, Murtha may be the only one on that list with usable organs...
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:38:52 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(Try Jesus--If you don't like Him, satan will always take you back.)
To: wagglebee
Registering as a DemocRAT counts as brain dead.
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:51:41 PM PDT
by
white trash redneck
(Everything I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9-11-01.)
To: Mr. Silverback
LOL!
Hadn't thought of that.
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:53:01 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
To: Doe Eyes
These things can be clearly spelled out in a will. No reason to have a hostile ex-wife involved. In a real-world situation, the will only matters if it is seen. If you were just in an accident, can be considered brain-dead, have the organ-donor box checked on your driver's license, and your available next of kin says "go ahead", then that might be it
I stand by my original assertion that (for some disfunctional families) having a cash incentive might not be good for the prospective organ donor
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:54:09 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
To: xzins
I often say to my wife, "Well, somebody has to think of these things!" She usually responds, "Yes, but why does it have to be you?"
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posted on
06/16/2006 6:55:25 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(Try Jesus--If you don't like Him, satan will always take you back.)
To: SauronOfMordor
This is just going to make more people refuse to be organ donors. If I lived in New Jersey my living will would say absolutely no organ donation. It seems to be the only way to protect yourself.
To: Paleo Conservative
>> Ann Coulter should avoid having any medical procedures performed in New Jersey. <<
I'm not dead yet! In fact, I'm feeling quite better; I think I'll go for a walk. (Or a hamburger, maybe, Ann? It'd help a whole lot!)
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posted on
06/16/2006 7:04:01 PM PDT
by
dangus
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