Organ donation talk often glosses over the gory details BETTY PIEPER Scotia
I’m so glad the Gazette had the courage top print a bit of the other side of organ donations [Aug. 14 Susan Estrich column]. Nurses, and even instructors, may have alluded to the conflict of interests, and conflicted roles and souls in “the old days.” But for at least two decades, there has been a heavy bias toward only reporting the positive: lives saved, hero-decision-maker families and a way to “live on.” Even in a case where there is a lawsuit, the public generally would not hear about it. Even the lawyer for the decisionmaker doesn’t want the mother to know about anything ”so horrifying and gruesome” as to what she unwittingly consigned her son to. It also does not surprise me that this young man was labeled as disabled to start with. There needs to be more media disclosure and honest assessment of the process and risks, including the conflicts created in health-care providers when saving lives requires costing lives — often prematurely or unnecessarily. We can also be sure that in general, people with fewer rights, who are more vulnerable, will be candidates for the harvesting of organs than CEOs and other valued and savvy people. We need more safeguards and more open discussion.
For me personally and my idea of organ donation.....the jury is still out!
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"other people" will soon get to decide....how many disabled, "non-participating 'bodies' are wards of the state, that get to 'donate' their body parts.....what happens when there is national healthcare?????
very cumbersome things this beheamoth will have to deal with when it comes into being.....
there will be dissent: "my tax dollars shouldn't have to pay for someone who doesn't even "participate" in society and pay taxes. They are a burden to the country."
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
That is already the case in some European countries. If a child is born with a life long debilitating disease, the taxpayers are up in arms since they have to pay for a citizen that will contribute back to the system what he/she is taking out.
Although, come to think about it, we won't have that problem in this country. We do that already with the lifers on welfare!!! Right?
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