My mother taught me to keep my mouth shut if I couldn’t say anything nice. I don’t see anything nice about organ donation and it degrades with each one of these articles.
Yeah, there’s nothing nice about the thousands of people living today with donated organs. They should just die, right?
“My mother taught me to keep my mouth shut if I couldn’t say anything nice. I don’t see anything nice about organ donation and it degrades with each one of these articles.”
I agreed to the harvesting of my daughter’s heart after she had been declared brain dead by three physicians.
You jerk. I hope you never ever need to have a kidney transplant. Try spending the rest of YOUR life on a dialysis machine, you fool.
If they wrote an article for every person whose life is changed or dramatically improved by a transplant, you'd change your mind.
If they even just wrote an article about one such transplant per donor, you'd change your mind.
If they wrote an article about every family that donated a loved one's organs and felt they had been part of a wonderful process in which they were treated with compassion and dignity and snatched precious life from the jaws of death, you'd change your mind.
If you had seen the look on the face of my wife and some of her colleagues when they learned that the corneas donated by one of her cancer patients enabled two people to see again, you'd change your mind.
Heck, if articles got written about even 10% of these cases, you'd change your mind. And seriously, is it past the point of your imagination to understand that a few doctors are just plain jerks and go over the line?
> My mother taught me to keep my mouth shut if I couldn’t say anything nice. I don’t see anything nice about organ donation and it degrades with each one of these articles.
I have registered as an organ donor and a bone marrow donor. When I’m gone, I’ll have no more need of my innards: can’t see why some other bloke who needs ‘em shouldn’t have a second chance, with my compliments.
My guts have stood me in good stead all my life: they’re used, but in good condition. What a waste to bury them. Reuse and Recycle them, by all means.