I have been sentenced to death by my sister

dailymail ^ | 24th March 2007 | By LAURA ROBERTS

[hinckley buzzard]

I'd prefer to reserve that term for murderers, rapists, and company who willingly choose to cause harm.

Sitting by the side of a swimming pool, sipping a cold one, and casually watching a child struggle for his life and then drown, is legal-- As the self-absorbed infants on this thread would yammer, "the kid isn't entitled to you saving him." --but don't you think it would constitute evil? I do.

And this woman's posturing is evil as well.

[jackibutterfly]

"Whatcha wanna bet that she's got HIV or other chronic disease."

Then she wouldn't be a match. She'd be incompatible.

[Rubber_Nose]

I’m on the national donor registry. I get letters periodically asking if I’m still willing and able to donate. If called to donate I’ll do it, but I’ll be scared to death.

Regards,

Rubber_Nose

[Charles Martel]

I have to admit that if I was the dad and my sister was gonna be like that.... I'd be scoring some payback before I checked out.

Yeah, that thought *does* spring to mind.

"Ooh, look... bone marrow!"

[hinckley buzzard]

Admit it. I just did

I don't. Sorry about you.

[bannie]

That and the comment about the "smirk" kinda jumped out at me.

It's the wife of the angry brother who made the claim that she smirked. She's not impartial in this agressively-slamming article.

[tfecw]

"Frankly I don't know why this already isn't the law"

There ought to be a law against people thinking laws will fix everything.

[beezdotcom]

She is not entitled to be free of scorn, either.

Exactly.

[supercat]

It would, but the net result would be far more organs available.

"We need your liver"
"But I'm using it!"
"You signed here on form XYZ-23 that we could have your liver if you were in a fatal car crash."
"But I'm still alive."
"That doesn't matter. Once we have your liver and you are officially dead, that fender bender will be recorded as fatal."

[thackney]

It is possible that every single one of you has a family member SOMEWHERE who you would see die before sharing your body parts with them.

No. I've tried to run through the worst ones in my mind. The ones that scammed my Grandmother, the ones that repeatedly made my Mother cry. No, I would go through bone marrow donation before I would let them die. Regardless of what my family would think of me for turning them down, regardless of what God would think of me for turning them down, I could not go to sleep at night knowing I let them die.

[Doohickey]

I realize that, but follow the timeline: She agreed to be a donor and was matched. He goes into remission. Then he gets worse and she refuses to cooperate. Something besides spite happened in that intervening time, and I would reckon that it's something about her that she doesn't want the family finding out about.

[gidget7]

"How about he did something so bad that she would not be sorry to see him leave this life. How about she has suffered all her life from the lasting effects of his behavior.
How about he and his wife show an inordinate sense of a ownership of her body and a lack of respect for her as a person. How about this public humiliation of the woman shows a brutal sense of entitlement to use her body."


I agree with you here! The brother comes off as someone with entitlement issues, that at his age, certainly didn't come out of no where. Also, no mention of what other conditions he might have, which the sister may have chosen not to speak on. I cannot imagine anyone in my family demanding entitlement like that. They don't have that mentality. And wouldn't have to demand either.

[Frapster]

He's got nothing to lose. So what's to stop him?

Maybe he has something she doesn't? A conscience?

[sarasmom]

That's why my #1, was the "other" reason first.

It will be interesting to hear "the rest of the story", if we ever do.
The story as written actually doesn't add up, in that the sister agreed a few years ago to donate the required bone marrow, and then changed her mind, after the short "remission".
Her sister-in-law has also physically assaulted her.

I will still reserve judgement untill I learn the facts in the rest of this ugly story.

Not out of any unwarranted, special consideration for either the sister or the brother, but because the media has reported it, as if it was worthy of news coverage.
Somebody has an agenda, and I would like to know who and what it is, first.

[Texas_shutterbug]

Ownership of her body?

How about just shocked that she's not showing an ounce of humanity for her brother?

If he did something "so bad" I doubt that she'd have her kids around him.

She deserves the public humiliation. There was a time when public humilliation was the acceptable result for being selfish or doing wrong.

Now it's "her body, her right." blech

[gidget7]

That's hardly the point. If I was refused by a family member, I would resent them, yes, forgive them but never forget, but I most certainly wouldn't splash their refusal all over some newspaper. Whether we like her decision or not, it has to be her decision, because anything else would be a law requiring it. And that would be absolutely wrong.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It is possible that every single one of you has a family member SOMEWHERE who you would see die before sharing your body parts with them.

Can't think of any myself.

[Texas_shutterbug]

Does it say anywhere in the article that her partner is a woman? Partners of both sexes are common in England. Marriage is a bit outdated for a lot of people these days. :(

[Pukin Dog]

My post was designed to cause FReepers to watch their rhetoric. Sometimes, I am saddened by how often people who KNOW ABSOLUTLY NOTHING about others are ready to judge them, call them names, question their character and more, on the basis of a news story.

I keep trying to find differences between us and the wacko left, but threads like this one keep knocking them down, one by one. I chose to respond to you, because of your screen name. Ironic.....

[Texas_shutterbug]

Three kids are going to lose a father. She lets her kids play with his kids, and presumably, they are around him.

Hard to tell who's more selfish?

I'm flabbergasted!

I have children, and you can bet that I would beg a sibling for his bone marrow if it meant my children wouldn't have to lose me. Of course, since some of them have already lost their first mother, I might have stronger feelings than some here.