@jthompson3125 Said
I agree with you that passing on your organs when you pass so that someone may use them for the better of their health is such a kind act.
However there are some people who have certain beliefs or feelings about this that are very personal. I think this is due to lack of information about what these organs can actually do, but your body is your body and if you have any rights left when you die it should be what happens to your parts.
I understand, but it's those irrational beliefs that are essentially killing people....young people. Put yourself in their shoes, dying because so many people are superstitious. It isn't even religious as far as I know. No religion preaches against it that I know of. In fact, I'm assuming many if not most support it, or would if it wouldn't make them loose
customers, erm adherents.
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In relation to your main point about d*** Cheney, he is just the beneficiary of being a very wealthy ex-vice president. Men and woman of this stature in our society obviously get better benefits then the common man. Is it wrong? I believe so; I believe that at 71 I would pass up a heart for a younger person to survive. Although, the goal of modern medicine is to fight off death, and in saving Cheney's life (possibly) with this hearth transplant, medicine has succeeded.
Yeah, I'm still undecided about that end of it. I think the triage we have in place seems pretty good given the limited number of donors. We can't sell organs, except on the black market in which case you'd have to go to some hell hole to die
. Cheney waited 20 months I think, but the question remains did he get it due to money or his status, in which case that would put him on my double-standard-is-the-only-sin-s***-list. If I were to be his age and in his condition, I hope to have the courage to decline it, with the caveat that I know the background of the recipient. I ain't offering to die to save some 20-to-lifer in prison, particularly with as few hearts/organs as there are out there.
@MadCornishBiker Said
It's an interesting point, and frankly I don't care what happens to my body if or when I die. I won't know anything about it anyway.
However, to be honest I don't think I would want part of someone else's body inside mine, it just doesn't feel right.
It's not a JW thing, purely personal, I have known JWs who have had kidney transplants, liver transplants, even known of some having heart transplants and as long as it is done without using blood there is no reason why not. Most I have known have carried organ donor cards.
How can they do it without using blood? The organ is going to have some blood in it.
@sister_of_mercy Said
It sounds ridiculous as I don't think I'll need them once I've gone, but I just like knowing that when I die I'll end up all in the same place and not scattered about in other people.
Obviously I can see the medical benefits and it's something people should do if they can, but at the moment I don't think I'd feel completely right agreeing to it.
Your parts will be scattered in any event, sooner or later. Besides, doesn't the possibility of an afterlife mean becoming one with the universe, if you believe anything at all. Imagine giving up an organ so that a younger person can live. Becoming an organ donor requires nothing but a signature. What is faith for? You couldn't give any less from you, or anything more to them.
I think MCB actually has a point here.
@chaski Said
When I die I am giving my body to science. It will save my family the wasted expense of a burial or cremation.
They still get stuff back, unless you direct them to throw it in the trash or something. Seriously, I don't know, they may cremate what's left for free.
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I do have one stipulation: science has to use any remaining useful organs to help others and the remaining parts of my body to help prove evolution.
What would a dancing blob pooping blood prove about evolution?