Why I am not an organ donor
From the London Times...
A doctor has been charged with deliberately hastening the death of a disabled man so that he could harvest his kidneys for another patient, in the first case of its kind in America.
The case centres on allegations that Hootan Roozrokh, a transplant surgeon in California, ordered a nurse to administer lethal doses of narcotic painkillers and sedatives to Ruben Navarro, who was terminally ill, after taking him off life support. The man died hours later.
Prosecutors claim that Dr Roozrokh, 33, acted without a legitimate medical purpose in his handling of Mr Navarro, 25, who suffered from a neurological disorder and had been kept alive artificially for several days after suffering respiratory and cardiac arrest.
Rosa Navarro, the patient’s mother, had agreed that her son’s organs should be used for transplant in the event of his death but did not authorise him to be removed from life support or given drugs to hasten his death.
When the courts allowed Terri Schindler to be tortured to death at the behest of her adulterous husband the standard was set that convenience trumped respect for life. Before I'll be willing to allow any doctors to use my organs after I'm gone, I'd have to know that they respect my own life enough not to jump the gun. Yes, there are people out there that are dying because they cannot get organs, but the solution is to establish a respect for life that people can feel comfortable with, not to murder people in a sickening attempt to harvest organs for someone else.
The medical community has too little respect for life these days. I simply don't trust them.
Posted by Danny Carlton at August 1, 2007 7:44 AM
Hey Danny,
This is also the reason I am somewhat leary of Living Wills or Advanced Directives as they call them.
Just a note-Her name is Terri Schiavo. I have the Mark Fuhrman book he wrote about the case-pretty chilling.
The problem with Terri Schiavo is she did not have a written Living Will or Advanced Directive or Health Care Proxy, which then left it to the court and the government to decide.
And the only reason the court should concern itself with whether I live or die, is if I kill someone else.
I don't like Health Care Proxys because they put the burden on someone else to decide what should be done with me. I prefer to make those decisions myself, and if God is calling me Home, my bags are packed and I am ready to go, whenever He sends the rider on the pale horse.
So what I have is a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate order). Others, less sure about what is on the other side, are more content to fight crossing over as long as possible. I respect that decision as well. But they should put that in writing now, while they still can.
If you can't make up your mind whether to stay or go, sign a Health Care Proxy and put the burden on someone specific that you choose.
But don't leave it up to the government to decide. There are millions of aborted fetuses killed every year that probably would have liked to have the option of saying what they would have wanted.
Heather, I figure that had she been able, she would have tossed the creep and not kept his name. It seems odd to continue to refer to Terri Schindler with the name of the animal that murdered her. His name deserves to be tossed into the sewage of history along with names like Hitler, Stalin and Hussein.