What is your opinion about Organ Donation? What is the procedure?
I think the french have it right; an 'opt out' donation policy instead of the american and english 'opt in'. I am a donor of blood (as regularly as I can give it) and when I die I have signed up to give away anything they want to take. TypingTornado's got it right, you cant take anything with you so why not let someone who needs an organ have another chance at living?
I don't really get people who are against organ donation, I think it a wonderful thing to do for someone. Even in death you can give life.
Organ donation has the capability of giving quality of life to many individuals. Organs that are commnly used are:eyes- corneal transplantsliver- usually can help 2 patientskidneys- 2 recipientspancreasheart or lung + heartthe removal of the organs is done by a special surgicl team to preserve the best function for the recipient.
I believe in organ donation. If my body or organs can help find a cure or solve a medical question, I am all for it. Having a body burried or having a cremation is kind of a waste.
I would like to have someone to benefit from my body.
Okay -- when you're dead, you're dead. You have little need of anything aside from one final attempt at making the world a better place. Giving someone sight, life, limb... hmm... you need an opinion on that?
The procedure? First, you die.
Based on these facts, Christians should not fear or reject organ donation merely in an attempt to keep the physical body intact for the resurrection. The legitimate argument against organ donation arises from the process of organ harvesting. There is nothing ethically wrong in recovering organs from the dead, but most successful organ transplants require that any prospective organs be kept alive with blood and oxygen flowing through them until they are removed from the body.
This dilemma is troublesome, because we cannot, and must not, support the termination of life in favor of organ donation. The medical profession has traditionally used cessation of heart and lung activity to mark the point of death. Medical technology had progressed to a point where it is possible to sustain (via a respirator) heart and lung activity for days or even weeks after a patient had irreversibly lost all brain function.
There has been a push in some medical circles to harvest organs when the patient has lost higher brain functions but is still alive. In 1994, the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association (AMA) issued its updated opinion that it is "ethically permissible" to use babies born without higher brain functions as organ donors. As Christians, we can support organ donation only in those cases in which death has been determined by every criteria, "including complete loss of brain function," rather than just by one or two criteria.
God forbids intentional killing (James 2:10-11); thus, we must carefully determine, in light of God"s Word, whether a respirator is simply oxygenating a corpse or sustaining a living human being. Then we must act accordingly.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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