[marthemaria]

This story just makes me shiver.

[HomeAtLast]

Ah, but the correct procedures were followed. That’s all that really matters! /s

[Red Badger]

About 500 people immediately removed their names from Denmark’s organ donor register.

ONLY 500?????..............

[Dr. Sivana]

Whew! After reading the headline, I was afraid she was going to recover and find her corneas removed or something!

[dfwgator]

Buddy: Hi, Mom! Hi, Dad! I'm not in a coma any more!

Mrs. Dionosopolis: Thank God!

Mr. Dionosopolis: [ embarrassed ] Buddy..? Buddy..?

Buddy: [ raising finger ] Ohhhhh.. what are you doing? Were you pulling the plug on me!

Mr. Dionosopolis: [ trying to explain ] Buddy, the doctor told us you were a vegetable.

Doctor: I, for one, am baffled!

Buddy: But pulling the plug!

Mrs. Dionosopolis: Buddy, we were just doing what you told your father about "dying with dignity", you know? If you ever got hit in the head with a sledgehammer and had to be kept alive by machines? You remember!

Buddy: I never said anything like that, Mom.

Mr. Dionosopolis: Oh, yeahh.. you remember, don't you? It was that one day, remember? You weren't asking yourself, you were real strange.. I thought, "Gee, that's not like Buddy, wants to die like that.." But I figured, what the heck, okay! You said it, though! You said, it, you just forgot!

Buddy: [ laughing ] I probably forgot about it!

Mr. Dionosopolis: Well, buddy, do you fell good enough to go home?

Buddy: [ excited ] Yeah, that would be just great!

Mrs. Dionosopolis: Alright. I'll fix you a nice big lunch!

Mr. Dionosopolis: And we'll go hunting first thing next week, okay? [ turns to Doctor ] Thanks a lot, Doctor! Thanks for almost killing little Buddy!

[ family exits hospital room ]

Doctor: Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!

[PapaBear3625]

This story will more than make you shiver: GOVERNOR CASEY'S TIMELY TRANSPLANT. I would not want to be in a hospital at the same time that a VIP needed my organs.

[Sherman Logan]

I’m not dead yet.

[The Sons of Liberty]

BTW, Is Joe Biden an organ donor?

[JoeFromSidney]

Do not ever agree to donate your (or a loved one's) organs. Except for corneas, which can be taken from a cadaver, all other organs (heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, etc.) must be taken from a living person. This means the're actually killing the "donor" by removing critical organs while the "donor" is still living. This "brain death" nonsense is simply an excuse to declare the the "donor" dead while his/her heart is still beating, lungs are still functioning, etc. The "lights out, nobody home" argument is a phony.

Whether a person in a coma can eventually recover is a separate question. But so long as the body is still functioning (heart, lungs, etc.), that person is alive, and removing a critical organ amounts to murder.

[TheSarce]

Ping...

[Darth Reardon]

If, after they had pulled the plug and the patient didn’t die, the doctors killed her to get the organs, people would be horrified. That is, however, 0’s position on abortion.

[Bigg Red]

I guess I can be thankful that, at my age, none of my vital organs look valuable to anyone.

Of course, the downside is that when I become frail, the Dear Leader’s Death Panel will have me euthanized.

[Slambat]

It could have went like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs