Same thing with your bank, insurance company, credit card, etc. who send you notices that they own your info unless you opt out. It's flat out wrong.
While I approve of those who choose to become organ donors, making it the default decision is immoral.
Would you like to REFUSE to be an organ donor!
Yes, I want no bananas.
Are all politicians snakes? It’s the way they word ballot initiatives, depending whether or not they want it to pass or fail.
When you deposit money with the bank, whose money do you think that is? According to law, it is the bank's money. The depositor retains limited rights to it.
Hospice and organ donation are really good ways to get yourself killed. I have seen two people die horribly in hospice because they put the dumbest, creepiest staff on hospice duty. I have not been around a dying person who was donating their organs, but there is not doubt that they will consider your needs less, and the recipient’s more.
If you are in the medical system, you must have legal and medical staff working to protect you, or the system will rip you off, make you sick, and kill you. Every single person — your insurance salesman, your doctors, the nurses, receptionists, orderlies — everyone, makes their money by giving you less, and charging you more for it.
Good grief, I despise these people.
All your organs are belong to us.
All you organs belong us.
God loveth cheerful givers... not forced ones. There is a new form of disrespect today, which is to harvest organs while the body is still living in some sense. Even a cessation of brain function, the best the secular world knows, isn’t always the end of the story of a life.
Soylent green is people.
Texans will never accept this.
I absolutely LOVE the weasel-working of the question, too!
Instead of “I would like to join the organ donation list”, or “I do not want to join the organ donation list”, it’s
“Would you like to refuse to join the organ donor registry?”
Intentionally confusing.
That is the exactly WRONG answer.
I have never taken the pledge, but I was more open to the idea before I heard some radio ads from the state of Illinois encouraging donation. It was like they were just too eager to get their hands on my parts. “You won’t need your parts anymore, so come on. Give ‘em up.” Like hastening my demise would be a good thing because somebody else has a better use for my organs and is waiting.
At one time parents had to give permission for their kids to attend or be instructed in controversial subject matter like the joys of homosexuality. Not many parents would opt in to this cr@p so they came up with an opt out policy on these things and parents only find out after the fact, if their kids even choose to tell them.
Livers now go mostly to chronic alcoholics with cirrhosis, OR, even better, people with Hep C, who in all likelihood got it from IV drug use or sex with someone who uses IV drugs.
I see a lot of super-aggressive organ procurers who are WAY too motivated for it to be a labor of love.
Big medicine makes a ton of money doing it, because the Feds subsidize it.
The people who get new organs are usually not terribly productive afterward. Absolutely not productive enough to justify the million or so spent on their transplant. How could they be? And are they so valuable to society that the investment should be made? Of course not.
If someone with normal renal function donates a kidney, nobody mentions that a significant fraction of the donors will themselves go on to complete renal failure.
I would say the money Big Medicine spends on the transplantation racket would be better spent on researching the underlying diseases (or behaviors in the case of alkies or drug addicts) that caused the loss of organ function in the first place.
And silly old-fashioned me, I believe that people should lead morally acceptable lives and prepare themselves for their inevitable demise, in an active, ongoing, faith-based manner.
They should NOT try to buy time cheating death by grabbing organs from young trauma victims and gullible donors.
The whole "I can live forever owing to all these medical advances" frame of mind breeds a population of infantile patients and family members who are utterly unrealistic when the inevitable arrives for themselves or their relatives: They want EVERYTHING done, regardless of futility, and regardless of the advanced age of the patient.
This infantile behavior at the end of life happens whether the therapies involve transplantation, or other expensive high-tech measures, like ECMO, hemodialysis, exotic chemotherapy and biologics, etc.
It needlessly increases national expenditures for medical care by 40 or 50 percent. It IS the reason health care costs in the US are off the scale ridiculously astronomical.
Alas living well and dying when you are supposed to, doesn't pay Big Medicine's people, or have the dramatic hype, sentimental slogans and medical-TV-show drama and pseudoheroism that organ transplantation has, so, no one is holding his breath for anything to change anytime soon.
Flame away people! But remember, what I am saying is the stone truth.
Reminds me of a scene from a Monty Python movie where they come to take a guy’s liver.
I’ve got good news and bad news for your.
The good news is that your beloved relative suffered only minor injuries in the car wreck.
The bad news is that when he got to the hospital, they found he was a perfect match for a billionaire who needed a new liver.
We’ve kept your relative on life support long enough for you to say your good byes.