That's why I'm suggesting we should change the system to one where individuals have to actually opt out of organ donation, so that if such a "No" option is not specified, then any/all organs are available for donation after death. There are just so many people living really miserable lives for want of a new organ.
Yes, I'm a organ donor, but have instructed my family that only other nominated organ donors would be able to gain my parts.
How about a substantial binding cash incentive whilst the would be donors are still alive. I reckon you would get a surplus of prospective donors. Look how it worked with the baby bonus.
Me, the spirit goes on, the body doesn't, take what you can use BUT make sure I am dead first !!
My body is merely the shell of my soul, but the flesh must be given its due.
Like a pony that carries its master back home, like an old friend that's tried and been true.
My spirit will never be broken or caught for the soul is a free-flying thing.
Like an eagle that needs neither comfort nor thought to rise up on glorious wings.
You know, that's actually an idea. Wealthy people fly to other countries to buy organs anyway, not like there isn't a precedent for it.
The government would actually be saving money on account of the fact that there would be many more readily available organs...wouldn't need to keep people in hospital for as long. On top of that of course - more people alive equates to more earning power, more taxes.
I'd be too concerned about doctors not doing their best to save me if I were a donor (in the case of any emergency); I have this vision of vultures flying around me.
The way I see it - if no one has anything to gain by my death...they'll all have no reason not to keep me alive!
there was a TV show called "Tales with a Twist" or something like that "Strange Tales" whatever
... so this bloke has a wife who is a real dragon - a real super-bitch - added to which she has these really green eyes and this really piercing stare ..
and then he has this girfriend who is beautiful, kind, mildmannered - but who is blind .. he longs to spend the rest of his days with option #2.....
and so he arranges to kill his wife in a car crash ... dodgies the brakes.. etc ,, bang crash , end of problem ....
and goes to see his mistress, only to discover that she has gone to hospital to get her long awaited eye-transplant because "a donor has suddenly become available "
and
you guessed it , lol
there, as they take off the bandages ..
that same piercing green-eyed stare!!
Am I to assume this is fiction? As surely eyes aren't that hard of an organ to get a transplant for... Can't exactly be a mass waiting list, and I think all eyes are compatible for all people?
Like he said, it was a TV program, Tales with a Twist!
well the umpires at the cricket could donate one eye each - it wouldn't make any bludy difference - since they're only using one !Am I to assume this is fiction? As surely eyes aren't that hard of an organ to get a transplant for... Can't exactly be a mass waiting list, and I think all eyes are compatible for all people?
Pakistani child gets Indian eye
July 5, 2004
A one-year-old Pakistani boy saw the world for the first time yesterday through an eye donated by an Indian.
Mohammed Ahmed gained partial vision after a difficult operation at the Agarwal Eye Institute in the southern city of Madras where another Pakistani child got a donor's eye six months ago.
Doctors said Ahmed, who was born blind, would get near-normal sight by the time he heads back to Karachi next week.
"It was a complicated surgery since both his cornea [the transparent circular part of the front of the eyeball] had become white and the iris [the flat coloured membrane behind it] was stuck to the cornea," said Dr Amar Agarwal, who performed the surgery.
"We had to proceed very carefully, first to detach the iris and thereafter replace the defective cornea with a healthy one procured from a 50-year-old Madras donor two weeks back," Dr Agarwal told reporters.
"Now the Karachi kid can see the world through Indian eyes."
Sitting next to the doctor and oblivious of the media attention he was getting, Ahmed reached out to a ball placed on a table in front of him.
"We never imagined he will get his eyesight," said his mother Mehmooda Salim. "It's the will of Allah. We are thrilled."
Ahmed's father, Mohammed Salim, said that after he contacted the clinic and talked to Dr Agarwal it was easy to get the visa and get to Madras.
"We have a lot of faith in India. We are overwhelmed by the warmth of the people here. There are many patients back in Pakistan and they could now seek a cure from Indian specialists," he said.
Last year, a life-saving heart surgery was performed on two-year-old Pakistani girl Noor Fathima at a hospital in Bangalore, also in southern India. Since then a steady stream of Pakistani children has flocked to India seeking treatment for variety of ailments.
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