Posted on 05/30/2010 1:23:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
We're much farther down the slippery slope than most people realize.
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People so attached to life they would participate in this are people the world could really do without.
Either you are free and your organs belong to you or you are a slave and your organs belong to the state or someone else. There is no other choice.
The organ donation system needs to be altered so that those who have already signed Donor Cards will have priority if and when they need a donated organ and in order to save the government, hospitals and insurance companies money of costly transplants, donated organs should only go to those people who can pay the full cost of an organ transplant.
This will make me change my donor status on my DL, what a crazy world it is today.
How do they figure this will make more people want to donate organs? I think they could increase organ donations by allowing donors to keep their organs until they’re done using them. Are there really people out there who would be more likely to donate their organs if they knew the organs are removed while they’re still using them? What if we could donate our organs while we’re awake? Would that be another incentive?
The Chinese harvest organs from prisoners, etc., according to Chinese thought about the “value” of the lives of the donors—of course, they have no Judeo-Christian notions of bioethics to create a problem with doing so.
Yes. Who realized that signing an organ donor card, which seems so innocent and giving, would hasten your own demise?
It is very vile.
Me, that's who. I refuse to sign any donor card or authorize any organ harvesting whatsoever. I demand to be treated as a live patient as opposed to an incubator for somebody else's liver. This has been pretty easy to see coming for years. By the time I get into retirement, I imagine I will not be allowed to "resist."
Every competant military historian who has studied communist countries, and the rise of socialism in the first decades of the 20th century.
Monstrous.
Probably not as many of us musicians, tho.
I learned about organ donor vileness a while back, but it always gave me the creeps that they had that form on the drivers’ license. Uck. But then the hastening death part/ it is so vile.
I did not put two and two together. Can learn so much on Free Republic.
I have always refused to be an organ donor and this just cements my position.
People who live with donated organs have no easy path, either. They have to take (AFAIK) immune suppressant drugs for the rest of their lives, and sometime there are other problems. It’s not a cure-all or something that works for everyone.
Everyone faces an end to the earthly body, and that is not actually a tragedy. The tragedy is to leave this world not knowing God, and to have committed crimes without repentence; clinging onto that with cannot save us. To hasten anyone’s departure is a crime; but to prolong one’s earthly tenure at the expense of someone else is another crime indeed.
Almost anybody who had thought about it. I have been turning down opportunities to sign up for organ donation ever since they started and I leaqrned they used “brain death” as the criterion.
>> Everyone faces an end to the earthly body, and that is not actually a tragedy. The tragedy is to leave this world not knowing God, and to have committed crimes without repentence;
Absolutely true!
>> ...clinging onto that with cannot save us. To hasten anyone’s departure is a crime; but to prolong one’s earthly tenure at the expense of someone else is another crime indeed.
That’s also true; however, the decision not to prolong one’s brief stay here on earth should be a decision made in a spirit of love by the inhabitant of the body, or at worst by a close family member.
It should NOT be the decision of the State.
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