You silly English pig dogs, I laugh at you and your crazy socialized medicine.
Posted on 04/12/2008 10:39:56 AM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
With her mother desperately in need of a transplant, Laura Ashworth told family and friends she wanted to donate one of her kidneys.
So when the 21-year-old died after an asthma attack, it seemed that the tragedy would at least give Rachel Leake a chance of a healthy new life. But because Laura had not begun the formal process of becoming a "living donor," the authorities refused to let her mother receive her organs. Instead they went to strangers at the top of the waiting list.
Rachel Leake says her daughter Laura 'would be devastated that she was not able to help me'"All I wanted to do was carry out her wishes," said 39-year-old Mrs Leake. "She would have been so upset that she was not able to help her mum. Even the transplant coordinator was crying her eyes out. She really tried to get her bosses to change their minds but they would not budge."
Although the Human Tissue Authority has the power to allow "directed" donor requests of this kind, a blanket ban is in force while an ethical review of such transplants is carried out. Despite an appeal to health ministers by the family's MP, Gerry Sutcliffe, Laura's kidneys went to a man in Sheffield and a man in London, while her liver was given to a 15-year-old girl.
Mrs Leake urgently needs another kidney and as a diabetic she could also have benefited from receiving her daughter's pancreas. She had a kidney transplant five years ago, but the donated organ failed last year and she needs dialysis in hospital three times a week to stay alive.
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Socialized medicine ... bring it on ....
The STATE will decide you gets your PARTS.
ps - Do the British know that Monty Python wrote most of their laws??
(Expletive deleted) bureaucratic scumbags.
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Human Tissue Authority ?
“the authorities refused to let her mother receive her organs. “
Evil.
Nothing more, nothing less...
You silly English pig dogs, I laugh at you and your crazy socialized medicine.
People have the right to make poor decisions. The girl made life better for some people, even if none of those people were her mother. I hope they can take some comfort from that.
Hopefully.
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ROFLMAO!!!! that was righteous .....
I see, so in your opinion a “poor medical decision” should arbitrarily be overturned by some scumbag politician acting in the name of the “Human Tissue Authority”. Are you nuts? Tell me, would you really take comfort knowing that your dead daughter’s organs went to some stranger instead of prolonging or saving your, the mother’s life? Unbelievable that you could somehow justify this - the state being in control of your organs at death and using them against your wishes. I can think of few things more disgusting....
Ditto.
It’s obvious that neither Mom nor daughter are/were smokers. Smokers are routinely denied transplants or even surgery under such medical care systems. The donor organs of smokers here in the US are routinely rejected as well.
lol. Yes, indeed, the Transplant Coordinator in fact works for the HTA.
I'm not a donor because my organs can't be sold upon my death. Why should the hospital, surgeon, etc., etc., be able to bill a patient for their services, yet the most important part of the surgery, i.e.; my organs be given away, free of charge?
People have the right to make poor decisions
No bureacratic drones HAVE THE RIGHT TO take away the right of who gets an individual’s body parts.
We allow women to MURDER their kids IN THE WOMB and throw them in the garbage but just dare decide to give an intrinsic body part to someone of their choice and the self styled “ethicists” deny that right...what a crazy evil world.
That isn't what I said at all. I would absolutely support the direct donation from daughter to mother. They have the RIGHT to make that decision. Personally, I feel it would have likely been a poor decision. That doesn't mean they don't have the right to make it.
However, now that all is said and done, the only comfort they CAN take is that some people were helped.
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