Posted on 03/26/2007 3:27:31 PM PDT by paltz
My brother and I are very close and he wouldn't have to ASK me to donate, I'd volunteer.
Lesson:
Be Careful of whose lifestyle you Pass Judgement.
In the end? Maybe. It was for a nephew or niece...I don't recall. They didn't make it, but perhaps got an extra year or so. I never really put the question to him and changed jobs, havn't seen him in a few years now.
True enough. You also don't have to save someone who is drowning.
I don't think we have a right to use force of law to compel her to give her marrow. I do think that her decision has consequences, one of which is that she if publicly scorned.
She is not entitled to be free of scorn, either.
I would if I could. I'm a recipient of a bone marrow transplant. I'm not even allowed to give blood.
In this case I don't think we can even assume sis and her 'partner' are not husband and wife.
I think you're right. That way when we move over to support homosexuals in all walks of life, no one will notice it.
Oh, my gosh! This is his LIFE we're talking about. I'd probably do EVERYTHING I could, also.
"....because he sure does seem to feel entitled, ...."
He's probably desparate. I mean, what would YOU do??? Die "gracefully"??
May the Lord Bless your Donor.
Payback. I'd start by working through her kids. I'd be calling them and sending them mail saying stuff like, "you know your mommy's gonna let me die? Your uncle will die because your mommy won't help him."
I'm serious. If she changed her mind, great. If not, I'd at least have messed up her relationship with her kids.
I don't think that's any colder than what this woman is doing.
The Good Lord certainly blessed me!
Ona side note, after my transplant, my blood type changed fromn O pos to O neg!
Is that awesome or what!?
The guy sounds like an ass to me.
I'm glad my siblings are not asses; and I hope to not be an ass to them.
(My oldest sister has four kidneys--we call her our kidney bank. I think I'll send her some See's.)
I'm sure if you were in his shoes you would say "No hard feelin's, Sis" and die quietly.
I'd prefer to reserve that term for murderers, rapists, and company who willingly choose to cause harm."
Well, what DO you call denying someone a life-saving measure??? By denying that life-saving measure, to me, is willingly choosing to cause harm, and I'd call that EVIL! Heck, if by denying someone that help isn't harm, then, WHAT is it????
The Chinese are ahead of you. Everyone in red China is an organ donor.
No, we don't know the reasons, of course.
All I can say is that I can easily conceive of having such a bad relationship with a brother or sister that I never wanted to see them again or have them in my house, whether it was my fault or hers or some combination of the two. I think I would still be willing to donate bone marrow to save that person's life, however. Maybe we'd never speak to each other again even after that. But it still seems wrong to me to deny someone the chance to live.
It really depends on the day. She would probably think that Gaia is blessing her.
Exactly! In a free society, people are entitled to make all sorts of selfish decisions. But everyone around them is also free to judge those decisions. Some decisions are deserving of scorn.
For you, perhaps no big deal... but she might have risk factors that make such a surgical procedure much more dangerous... Many people have a history of reaction to anesthesia which predisposes them to greatly increased chance of sudden death during even routine procedures. There are a number of other conditions that would make even a routine surgery very risky... My point is we don't know the facts, just a very one sided spin. Maybe she is cold hearted, but we just don't know. I'm not judging her based on that.
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