“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
Our friends’ Down Syndrome son, age 4, needs a heart. The doctors will not put him on the list, so our friends watch as their little boy slowly goes down hill and eventually dies.
The Mickey Mantle story makes my blood boil.