The organ harvesting business has the potential to be far more dangerous than most people realize.
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The doctors who did this deserve to spend the rest of their lives in a Level 5 Supermax prison.
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Anybody see Monty Python’s “Meaning of Life”?
That was the case with Navarro. Severely disabled, he was put on a respirator after being taken to the hospital on Jan. 29, 2006, from a nursing home, where he had been found without a pulse. When doctors told his mother, Rosa, that there was no hope, she agreed to allow him to become a donor. But she was shocked when she heard what happened next. Her son's heart kept beating even though his ventilator had been removed and the multiple doses of drugs had been administered. Roozrokh also allegedly administered through a feeding tube in Navarro's stomach an antiseptic normally used to sterilize a donor only after death. The doctors eventually gave up and wheeled him back to his room, reportedly as he frothed at the mouth and shivered.
That is grotesque, and 'harvesting' at it's worst.
At which point, I would have then sent those guy flying back through the wall...
My aunt is a retired registered nurse, and she told me long ago to never sign the organ donation card on the back of my driver's license since she knew of several cases where people were allowed to die after car wrecks to get their organs. And this was ten years ago...
I think I should be able to sell my parts to the highest bidder.
Perhaps Larry Niven was a prophet?
I will not sign an organ donor card, because I have personally talked with (in real life and on FR) those who have assisted some “harvesting”. To get a good heart, the heart must be removed before it stops beating. The preferred method of harvesting organs is to take it from a donor is still living.
Having said that, things like donating a kidney, which is done most often from a healthy donor who gives one, is a great act of charity.
About 6 years ago, a music teacher at my former high school talked to us about organ donation. She volunteered for one of the organ donation groups, as she had a good experience working with them when she donated her son’s organs after his death. She said it is untrue that they hasten death or do less to prevent death if one is an organ donor. My cousin works in a hospital, and he said that isn’t true. Articals and comments posted here have further confirmed that to me. I am fine with my organs being donated, but I will not sign my driver’s license because I don’t want them taking my organs before I’m officially dead. I’m showing this to my mom because she has it signed on her license. It makes me nervous. I told her I will tell them to donate her organs when she dies, but I want her to get full treatment.
It really disgusted me at how some of these organ donation groups when I read this article. It seems like some of these people aren’t treated as people but just a container full of organs. There seems to be an attitude that it would be better to save multiple people with one person’s organs than save that one person. Hospitals and organ donation groups need to realize this severely injured or ailing person is indeed a person, and he/she deserves full treatment.
“The organ harvesting business has the potential to be far more dangerous than most people realize.”
We don’t always know which doctors are honorable, and which are not, which is why we need to be a strong advocate for our loved ones, and get an opinion from an unbiased source and a doctor we can trust.
“No one thinks the Navarro case is typical...”
I doubt very much that “no one” thinks that, and just from the small sampling of responses to this on F.R. post we can see there are plenty of similar stories.
Although the Pope himself is an organ donor, I have also heard a priest very close to this situation describe it as immoral in practice, not the idea of donation, but because it almost always involves a grey area of essentially dissecting a person while he’s still alive (even though “brain dead” or whatever). The blood must apparently be flowing, and the body “kept” alive for the organs to be useful, so no one is completely dead when they start “harvesting”...that’s my limited understanding anyway.
MAYBE not typical now, but it sure will be at the rate we're going.