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Had to come back to this a few days later to quell my irritation at being called a freak by Barbelith. I've been called worse of course for my ideas/beliefs on various topics, but mostly by right wing, redneck, religious fanatic types. Did I miss the part in the regulations of the board which state that I must agree and and adhere to whatever opinions become majority here? I hope I miss that small print forever.
Also feel compelled to explain that while I do (as I said before) think that organ donation is indeed a fantastic act of generousity, and one which I don't choose to take part in, the "ick factor" has nothing whatever to do with my reluctance. I'm quite ok with the more visceral aspects of life and death actually. One of the most interesting points of my life involved assisting our vet remove, repair and replace the eyeball from my badly injured dog and learning four different types of stitches to sew up the other parts of her.(new year's day,bad dog fight, vet had no other helper)I've also unfortunately had to handle human death hands on and it was personal.
My reluctance to my own organ donation has much more to do with the bureacracy involved, including the fact that in some places, such as my own Amerika, I understand that a huge amount of donations go to waste because HMO's and traditional health insurance won't pay for the costs involved in typing, matching, transfering and implanting said organs.
Beyond the bureacracy, I do have personal belief issues which may seem irrelevent to you, but mean a lot to me. Having said that, if my little girl needed something from me, I'd happily die for her to have it; no doubting my own hypocrisy there.
Perhaps an alternative situation could both further this argument and the usefullness of generosity? I've heard of people leaving a proportion of money specifically to be used by organ donor organizations to assist people who cannot afford to buy their needed part/s(or pay for the other monumental costs that ill health can bring about for sufferers and their families) to avoid the problem of greedy insurance organizations. One could also go so far as to give up something one doesn't really need while still living to sell and pass on that money to help cover such costs? Why wait til death, eh?
Obviously blood donation is incredilby usefull as is volunteer work with people and animals who are sick or in need of something a healthy person can give.
So there are my little points. Wonder what offensive names I'll get called now? |
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