Hearing Set In Battle Over Teen's Life Support

[Cu Chulainn]

Right, it's the family contending that KUMed wants to harvest the organs. Just as they contend that the doctor said "there is no god in this century." Until I hear from a source outside of the family, I'm not going to believe it.

OT I'd like to hear one good reason why organ donation shouldn't be mandatory. That anyone would value the appearance of a corpse over the life of a person is disgusting.

 

[blackheart]

OT I'd like to hear one good reason why organ donation shouldn't be mandatory. That anyone would value the appearance of a corpse over the life of a person is disgusting.

Because it's that person's decision to make, not mine, yours, or the government's.

 

[Cu Chulainn]

Because it's that person's decision to make, not mine, yours, or the government's.

A corpse is not a person.

 

[El_Machinae]

For the same reason we honor someone's last will and testament.

 

[blackheart]

A corpse is not a person.

No, but a living person has to make the decisions for themselves. A corpse is not property to be handled either.

 

[Cu Chulainn]

I can agree that excessive government control is a bad thing. Not being an organ donor remains an incomprehensibly immoral stance. That people die to preserve a dead man's vanity is stomach churning.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

As E_M said, we honor wills and testaments, sharing out people's property as they have set out prior to their death, and one's body seems to fall under property. If you want to confiscate people's organs on moral grounds, there should also be a huge inheritance tax paid directly to charities.

PS: I agree that not donating one's own organs is immoral, though.

 

[blackheart]

I can agree that excessive government control is a bad thing. Not being an organ donor remains an incomprehensibly immoral stance. That people die to preserve a dead man's vanity is stomach churning.

I am an organ donor myself, but not donating your organs doesn't represent any sort of breach of morality from me. People don't die because you didn't give them your organs, people die because their own organs are failing, it's not really my fault if someone needed an organ and they didn't get it.

 

[Mr Moron]

I don't get those doctors, if it were me i'd just keep the thing on life support. The parents want to the heart of that empty shell beating let them. Only more money they have to pay us.

 

[VoodooAce]

I'd be willing to bet that the doctor was trying to convince the family that their son was in fact dead and the family, going through the worst thing a person can experience and probably in some state of denial, said something about praying to their god.

The doctor probably said something about this being the 21st century and that praying wasn't going to help.

Heartbreaking for the family, though. Especially for whomever it was that should have been more responsible with the weapon.

Another modern American tale. A teen kills himself with a gun he shouldn't have been handling in the first place. Then religion takes the floor. His death was tragic while the aftermath is pathetic.

This says it all.

 

[7ronin]

Will the parents accept a second or even a third opinion? It sounds as if they don't want to let go.

 

[bhsup]

Will the parents accept a second or even a third opinion? It sounds as if they don't want to let go.

They already did. Check out Turner's link on the bottom of page 2. The independent doctor came in and confirmed he was brain dead, which the family accepted.