[wagglebee]

Or, as Pope John Paul II put it in 2000, "Vital organs which occur singly in the body can be removed only after death, that is from the body of someone who is certainly dead . . . This requirement is self-evident, since to act otherwise would mean intentionally to cause the death of the donor in disposing of his organs."

The culture of death is far more concerned with "spare parts" than they are with actual life.

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[henkster]

The New England Journal of Medicine conducted their study at several poling places this spring. They discovered that a very high number of people who voted for Barack Obama showed little or no brain activity. Yet they were able to walk and say “It’s Bush’s fault!” which led the researches to conclude that their bodies might not be completely dead.

(Hey, it was only a matter of time before someone posted this!)

[GCC Catholic]

Does your state plug it every time you renew your driver’s license? California does.

PA does. My days as an official "organ donor" end when my license gets renewed in November.

I'd been thinking about it for a while, and this settles it.

And now the task of letting the rest of the world know... this should stir the pot a bit at my campus Students for Life meeting.

[Cicero]

Frankly, the Church has been too ready to accept the statements of biased scientists on this matter.

Death is death. And most organs are “harvested” before the patient has died. That is why I would hesitate to be a donor—because doctors have divided loyalties, and may just kill you in order to harvest your organs for someone else whom they happen to like better, or know better, or maybe who to pay more.

It undermines the practice of medicine, IMHO, just as abortion and euthanasia do.

[Scotswife]

“The culture of death is far more concerned with “spare parts” than they are with actual life.”

There are many of us who agreed to the donation of organs based upon the declaration of brain death - with the guidance of the hospital priest.

If we had not donated, they simply would have removed them from the machines anyway.

[redgolum]

Been saying this for a while.

Organ donations are very profitable. And there is a big push to ‘help along’ a possible donor.