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August 12, 2004
Thursday Debate
I saw this in the news the other day and had very mixed emotions about it. This guy, Todd, needs a liver and has put up two billboards on busy interstates to ask for one. He has also been covered in the media. I hope and pray this guy gets a liver transplant; his life depends on it. But if we start soliciting ourselves on billboards and such for personal transplant donations, where will the line be drawn? The organ donation system they have right now is on a need basis. The sicker patients get the organs first. If a new wave of billboards and media get into this system and becomes a popular practice, wouldn’t the people who had the means for getting to the public get the organs first? Also, if you put a name, face, and life history of someone needing an organ out there, when a loved one dies, a person may opt to give to the person who they have a tangible sense of worth too rather than just handing over the organs to the next name on the list. They may feel comforted in giving the organs to a child or mother or father or newlywed. Does that make sense? But, then again, if my husband needed an organ, I would do whatever it took to get him one. I don’t know- what do you all think?
Posted by ashley at August 12, 2004 03:36 PM
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Something to think about.
Posted by: Rhonda at August 17, 2004 08:25 AM
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Posted by: Ian Baumann at October 8, 2005 10:54 AM