Posted on 11/23/2014 9:49:01 AM PST by Shimmer1
The organ donation process has been completed for the young woman whose family was fighting against it.
According to family members of 26-year-old Martha Perez, her organs were removed on Friday against their wishes.
Fox 4 spoke to the family before the removal and they said the third woman confirmed dead of injuries sustained in an Arlington wreck involving a suspected drunk driver was technically still alive.
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You better believe it.
It’s better to be worth more alive, than dead.
Follow the money. Those organs are worth big bucks to a wealthy Arab.
It'$ all about $aving live$.
Yes. It’s one thing to take organs from a dead person. But this assumption that a still living person is the best candidate for a harvest is just wrong in so many ways.
She was a donor.
She was brain dead.
They followed her wishes.
Some of you think hospitals are giddy about this stuff. They are not.
She wasn’t a kid and the parents cannot stop the process if she had affirmatively signed the docs.
No anesthesia when they cut out the organs either.
Precisely.
It was her wishes. Texas has a consent law. If you consent to donation, it doesn’t matter if family consents or not.
In medical ethics, asking families about the care of someone who can’t speak for themselves is a form of surrogacy. It is considered that the family would best know what the wishes of the patient would be.
In this case, there is no doubt. The woman signed up to be a donor. That was her wish.
Adults can make decisions for themselves.
This article is akin to something like this, “Adult daughter marries without parental consent.” Oh, the horrors. Adults can make decisions about their own lives. And deaths.
This is a non-story. Don’t want to be a donor? Don’t sign up to be one. The Texas donor database also allows you to opt out of donation, and it has the same effect: if YOU opt out, then your family can’t consent to donate for you.
Why not? You don’t need to ask the family what your wishes would be if you’ve made them clear in advance.
Donations save lives. I’ve never understood the conspiracy bubble here about that.
I don’t want any hospital having a cash incentive toward my early demise. This incident and those like it are making me rethink my organ donor directive. It’s better to be worth more alive than dead.
For years I told my wife that “organ donor” status gives hospitals an incentive for “premature” pronouncements of death.
After watching the current state of our government she finally left donor status off her driver’s license.
>>She wasn’t a kid and the parents cannot stop the process if she had affirmatively signed the docs.
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To many, the desires of the deceased or their lawful representatives, is irrelevant.
This should be a non-story.
I want everything I have to go to someone else (not sure what condition they will be but some paint and primer might make it worthwhile).
An no one has the right to contest that.
My 33 year old son-in-law died of a heart attack a few years back and immediately my daughter was pressed to make a decision about donating his organs, she agreed.
Closed casket funeral because skin is an organ too and they “harvested” the skin off his face.
First, I am so sorry about your son in law!! I hope your daughter is doing ok.
Better than ok.
I want to say that I don’t disagree with organ donating! I just disagree with “too early” organ donating
If you even made sense, it would be a miracle. No one is discussing the pros and cons of organ donating, we are discussing harvesting organs when the PERSON IS NOT DEAD YET.
Yeah, not dead yet has nothing to do with it huh.
Anyway, my family gets to decide about me.
Same here. Did it years ago. My whole family knows how I feel about this, too.
Totally not true. When declaring someone brain dead I have no idea of their donor status. That only comes into play afterward.
“Perez was a registered organ donor and doctors told the family they were prepared to harvest the organs for donations.”
There is no story here.
The deceased was an adult and wanted to donate her organs.
The hospital fulfilled her wishes.
Her family has no standing.
She wanted to save lives.
Her family is being selfish and disrespecting of life.
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