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To: wagglebee

I signed my organ donor card, and knowing that what is in this article may indeed be true, I will still remain a donor. I think it would be an extremely small number of cases where brain death occurs and yet somehow the patient would later regain consciousness.

Where this info is important is in cases where they want to take people off life support citing statistics saying they will never recover...that is different than being an informed organ donor.


11 posted on 08/15/2008 5:46:32 AM PDT by Bobalu (If you don't want people pointing out your flaws, maybe you should work on not having any)
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To: Bobalu
I think it would be an extremely small number of cases where brain death occurs and yet somehow the patient would later regain consciousness.

ONE is too many.

Where this info is important is in cases where they want to take people off life support citing statistics saying they will never recover...that is different than being an informed organ donor.

There are ways to be an organ donor WITHOUT putting it on your license.

18 posted on 08/15/2008 5:58:47 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Bobalu

I can assure everyone that you will not want my organs in the event of my untimely demise. They have been well used, and there will be very little life left in them.


28 posted on 08/15/2008 6:39:13 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (I will not vote for Obama not because he is black, but because he is RED)
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To: Bobalu

>> citing statistics saying they will never recover

In short, there’s motivation to terminate the organ donor’s life despite ethics, morality, and the Constitution.


47 posted on 08/15/2008 9:55:52 AM PDT by Gene Eric
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