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Cuyahoga Co. To Allow Organ Harvest Before Brain Death (Ohio)
News Net 5 (Cleveland) ^ | February 10, 2007 | not specified

Posted on 02/10/2007 12:17:23 PM PST by keats5

CLEVELAND -- Prosecutors in Ohio's most populous county said they'll no longer block the local organ bank if it wants to remove organs from people who are not yet brain dead.

Most organs are removed for donation only after the brain ceases all activity. But nationwide there has been growing use a more complicated procedure to remove the organs after the heart stops working.

Three such donations were done in Akron last year.

Cuyahoga County prosecutors for the past decade have clashed with the LifeBanc over removing organs after cardiac death. At one point they threatened homicide charges.

But Prosecutor Bill Mason has written a legal opinion endorsing a revised procedure that does not include use of a blood thinning drug that prosecutors believed would hasten death.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: braindeath; euthanasia; moralabsolutes; organ
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To: keepitreal

I predict in the not too distant future, organ donation will become mandatory.


21 posted on 02/10/2007 12:48:09 PM PST by OldCorps
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To: keepitreal

Ghoulish. *shudder*


22 posted on 02/10/2007 12:53:49 PM PST by Malacoda (A day without a pi$$ed-off muslim is like a day without sunshine.)
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To: soupcon

Tell me about it...I read that the Netherlands is considering legalizing euthanasia in cases of mental illness. God help us

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And why not harvest their organs for those citizens more deserving while they're at it.


23 posted on 02/10/2007 12:57:29 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: doorgunner69
what is next? Using bits of the arms and legs of parapalegics because they don't need them anymore?

I can see someone making that case in a few years.

24 posted on 02/10/2007 12:59:17 PM PST by SteamShovel
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To: keepitreal

"And why not harvest their organs for those citizens more deserving while they're at it."

In Holland, that would be considered a very pragmatic statement!


25 posted on 02/10/2007 1:01:39 PM PST by soupcon
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To: soupcon

What you do to the least of my brothers....


26 posted on 02/10/2007 1:05:02 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: Alter Kaker

There's a little known law in Texas that says after you have been confirmed dead the state takes your corneas whether you like it or not.


27 posted on 02/10/2007 1:05:52 PM PST by freekitty
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To: madison10; BurtSB

Actually I think it is very close to Animal Farm by George Orwell. The horse would say, "I will work harder, Napoleon is always right." In the end, when he could no longer work, he was sold to the renderer.


28 posted on 02/10/2007 1:09:13 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Alter Kaker

I'm just a cranium...
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I'm very sorry. We need to take your cranium. It's for the good of everyone.


29 posted on 02/10/2007 1:10:34 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: dakine

Can't take it with you...
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But it really sucks if they take it away while you still need it!


30 posted on 02/10/2007 1:11:37 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: keats5

Note to self: Don't sign up for organ donation.


31 posted on 02/10/2007 1:16:00 PM PST by PAR35
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To: dakine

I'm taking mine with me.

Once upon a time, I was an organ donor, and I certainly believe in the concept. Unfortunately, the rush to harvest has become so demanding, lucrative and, in my opinion, unethical, that I fear there is a hastening of death to get the organs. On one hand, it saves the hospital and the insurers money if we just cooperate and kick off quickly and, on the other hand, they make money on the fresh organs of the deceased.

So they aren't getting anything from me. A lot of people feel the same way, and it's a real shame.


32 posted on 02/10/2007 1:19:47 PM PST by Jezebelle (Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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To: doorgunner69

"Using bits of the arms and legs of parapalegics because they don't need them anymore?"

Maybe their legs, I think they are still using the arm parts...


33 posted on 02/10/2007 1:21:16 PM PST by dakine
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To: keats5

Coming soon: Mandatory organ donation at the age of 21, unless you are an Alpha.


34 posted on 02/10/2007 1:24:34 PM PST by Lazamataz (Global warming turns people gay.)
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To: BurtSB
Oh , Brave New World ! Every day we inch closer to closer to the world in Arthur C Clarke's novel

I used to be scared of becoming a 1984 Orwellian world.

Now that it has happened, I am scared of becoming a Brave New World.

35 posted on 02/10/2007 1:26:03 PM PST by Lazamataz (Global warming turns people gay.)
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To: keats5

Are they planning a daily donor shuttle from Gitmo?


36 posted on 02/10/2007 1:33:07 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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To: Jezebelle

"I'm taking mine with me."


Everyone profits on the deal except the estate of the person providing the part(s) without which the process would not be possible. Mine can be purchased at market value . . . or they go with me.


37 posted on 02/10/2007 1:34:16 PM PST by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
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To: OldCorps
Never considered that angle, but I'll bet you are right. Conserving natural resources so to speak. Personally, they are more than welcome to mine when I'm dead. But it hopefully will remain a choice.
38 posted on 02/10/2007 1:42:36 PM PST by lapdog
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To: keats5

That's funny. A lot of the people here in Cleveland are nearly brain dead already.


39 posted on 02/10/2007 1:59:15 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: xzins

"I'll send my sinuses to Arizona,

I'll send my liver to Peru,

I'll send my lungs to the High Sierras,

But...I'm sending my heart to you!"


40 posted on 02/10/2007 1:59:15 PM PST by elcid1970 (`)
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