Organ donation

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You guys are just afraid that some giddy sophomoremed student is going to make nose glasses out of your genitals.

Get over it. It's a lifeless corpse that used to be a person, but isn't anymore.
 
Originally posted by milefile
No. I think it's very twisted to see humans as parts.
Yet, you apparently don't have any problems seeing them as slaves to society. You seem willing to take things away from people who can use them while they're alive. But you get all prudish about taking something useless away from them after they're dead?

Odd. Isn't that a little... self-centered?
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Yet, you apparently don't have any problems seeing them as slaves to society. You seem willing to take things away from people who can use them while they're alive. But you get all prudish about taking something useless away from them after they're dead?

Odd. Isn't that a little... self-centered?

You keep sating that. You obviously enjoy it and/or need to believe it to justify this obsession of yours with, interminable, pontifical ranting. Also, I'm beginning to think you're a little thick so I will say it again, and maybe if I borrow your obnoxious style and get all dramatic about it, it will sink in:

I AM NOT WILLING TO TAKE AWAY FROM ANYBODY, ANY THING, AND GIVE TO ANYBODY ELSE, SAID THING, FOR ANY REASON, WHETHER THEY ARE ALIVE, OR DEAD.

Maybe that made it through your thick skull, which will end up in a medical oddity museum one day as an example of hypertrophied bone mass.

And yes, it is absolutely self-centered. Congratulations on an astute observation. Maybe there's hope for you yet.
 
I will sign up as one when I turn 18. Why? As long as I'm not old, my organs will be healthy. I don't plan on smoking or drinking excessively(I think excessively as in getting drunk many times, having beer or other alcoholic drinks on days other than special occasions, etc)
 
Originally posted by milefile
I AM NOT WILLING TO TAKE AWAY FROM ANYBODY, ANY THING, AND GIVE TO ANYBODY ELSE, SAID THING, FOR ANY REASON, WHETHER THEY ARE ALIVE, OR DEAD.
Boy, well, I'm glad that's settled. But if I may ask:

How do you intend to pay for universal health care so you don't have to tell anybody they will die?

(hopefully that was written with little enough emphasis - wouldn't want to be thought obnoxious again)
 
Originally posted by milefile
I'm not an organ donor. I don't see the body as a mass of interchangeable parts, and I don't think it becomes one even after one dies. If a member of my family died it would haunt me for ever that they were sliced up and distributed.
Because of my profession, my beliefs, and just 'cuz I think it's the right thing to do, I am an organ donor, and a proponent of organ donation.
Mile,
Don't think of them as dead and "parted out". Think of it as part of my loved one, lives on in another. This body is no more than a vessel for the "essence" of me. When that essence is gone. I hope that it would comfort my family that my big heart is still beating in somebody's chest, that my big brown eyes are seeing the world still with someone else.
 
If one of my organ's will help keep some little kid alive, or someone's mom, or something, from dying... take whatever it is you need from my dead corpse. It's better to be put to use than to be rotting away 6 feet under.
 
when im dead, i wanna donate my organs, especially if my organ will be saving a family member. it won't be of any use to me anyway. but i don't think my parents are gonna allow me. :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by Gil
Mile,
Don't think of them as dead and "parted out". Think of it as part of my loved one, lives on in another.
That is consoling, and satisfies some of what bothers me about it.

I hope that it would comfort my family that my big heart is still beating in somebody's chest, that my big brown eyes are seeing the world still with someone else.
That too.

This body is no more than a vessel for the "essence" of me.
This is the part I can't reconcile.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Boy, well, I'm glad that's settled. But if I may ask:

How do you intend to pay for universal health care so you don't have to tell anybody they will die?

(hopefully that was written with little enough emphasis - wouldn't want to be thought obnoxious again)
How should I know? I'll let those who actually want it figure it out.

See? You still didn't get it.
 
What didn't I get? Unless the original statement was merely a simple admission that it would be tough to tell someone they had to die?

Of course it would be. Duh.

The corollary seems to be that it's our job to make it so people don't have to die. Particularly, since the thread was titled "Universal Health Care". Silly me for thinking that was the topic under discussion.

So we are agreed then. It is sad that people die.
 
Mile,
I'm beginning to understand your concerns.
It's hard to think that your "essence" is gone and someone else is using parts of the "vessel".
I believe, and try to live as if my next stop on the continuum is Heaven. I won't need my body there. So if what is left can help another, than I want to help.
Like the bumper sticker says. "Don't die and take your organs to Heaven. Heaven knows that we need them here."
 
Originally posted by milefile
A moderator taking the thread off topic? It couldn't be.
Milefile avoiding a reply because he can't answer it?

It couldn't be.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Milefile avoiding a reply because he can't answer it?

It couldn't be.

No. I just don't know what you're talking about. I read the post, didn't follow, and blew it off. If it's that important try discussing it in context, in the relevant thread that is still active.

I hope you don't continue stalking me through the forum picking petty irrelevant arguments.
 
Was what a joke?

And milefile, let's do better than the Irish or the Israelis and Palestinians: I will if you will. I'll volunteer to stop and trust you to do the same.
 
Originally posted by urlilfriend
when im dead, i wanna donate my organs, especially if my organ will be saving a family member. it won't be of any use to me anyway. but i don't think my parents are gonna allow me. :rolleyes:
When you're 18, it doesn't matter anyway...
 
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