Okay let’s keep the discussion of “brain dead” people organs since the article is about a person that was mistakenly pronounced brain dead.
Now, why should a person that is not willing to donate his organ in the even of death be permitted to receive an organ from a person who while alive decided to give the gift of life?
“why should a person that is not willing to donate his organ in the even of death be permitted to receive an organ from a person who while alive decided to give the gift of life?”
How many children sign “donor” cards? Not much probably, and they are usually the ones that most people would feel deserves instead of a nicotine stained finger, overweight, hard-drinking ex baseball player (ala Mickey Mantle who magically vaulted up the donor list over numerous others—”If I’d known I was gonna live this long, I’d have taken a lot better care of myself.”)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mantle
it is a red herring and invalid.
What about the cloned donations? It is inevitable that we are going to eliminate the need for most organ donations. In fact we have eliminated the need for some people to be donor reciepients through treatment.
What about people of faith who have a preclusion of donating but are allowed to recieve? (they literally have to store their own original parts until their demise)
I would suggest you deal with the VULTURE harvesters first. Prevent the living from being declared dead first THEN discuss being self rightous. There are too many stories of the insurance expired being targeted for donations rather than actual death.