Posted on 12/06/2004 12:33:05 PM PST by dead
A truly heartbreaking position for a parent to be in. However, the mother is making contradictory statements about how it would be easy to save one of one, but impossible to save one of two. Were I in such a postion, you can be damn certain I would chose one or the other. To let both die because you can't save both is wrong.
The solution to the scarcity of organs is to allow people to sell them. It is ironic that the people most likely to oppose such a system are the same one that laud the sanctity of one's body when the issue is abortion.
no prob, we wouldn't even know about this if it didn't fit someone's agenda.
This is the real meaning of this piece, the dilemma faced by those who think that the state has an obligation to order not just the lives of their subjects but their deaths and disposal as well.
The writer follows the standard line of introducing the reader to a very sympathetic person, fleshes out this poster person and then slams home the sword of guilt.
The method seemingly works for it is used to justify criminal acts by thugs as well as members of state from the punishment of ordinary people for acts of defense to the reward offered for reporting those few sane who still object.
The poor woman illustrated here cannot possibly make such a decision without harm but sickness is never fair.
Sorry...you misunderstood.I am not critisizing the mother.I made a observation of her statement,saying she would sacrifice herself and immediately contradicting it.
I sympathize with her.I just think there is more recourse than this article would have you think.
She can give up both of her kidney's and go on dialysis and wait for a donor for herself. Dialysis works quite well. I have firsthand experience.
This is a horrendous predicament, butr consider: If their kidneys are so difficult to match, isn't it likely that at some point a single kidney might become available from some other donor? How do they decide who gets it in that case? Isn't it the same decision? Would she turn it down because it would only save one of the boys?
The movie is called "The Big Carnival" with an alternate title of "Ace in the Hole."
Yes, indeed. :o)
Thanks.
She said she would then give a kidney to the other boy.
I'm with the other posters in saying that I think I would have to give up both of mine and go on dialysis myself.
Condemned prisoners there provide kidneys to people from all over Asia-- fresh, too! The boys could choose from a catalog of prisoners, to be executed to order when their blood type matches a recipient's.
If no match were found, the Chinese surgeons would be just as happy to take both of Mom's kidneys and put her on dialysis.
-ccm
Hello, yesterday I read this in our Dutch Paper "De Telegraaf" and I was shocked, is there a way to give my organ if I have the same blood group as those 2 kids? Them I'm able to rescue those lives.. can somebody tell me if it's possible? and how I can come in conversation with them?
I come from the Netherlands so maybe my english is not good as well.
You can also contact me at msn: mrbonnema@hotmail.com
Thanks for the information
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