Thread: organ donation?
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Old 14-01-2008, 17:58   #30
Bonnyboy
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Re: organ donation?

I agree with the presumed consent proposal in general terms. I would like to know more about it though.

A scenario might be, patient in need of lung transplant is awaiting a donor, the said transplant would give the patient a normal standard of life. Some poor sod has a car accident and is in A&E, their lungs are fine ( a good match ) but they have brain damage and although will not die through this, they will be in pretty much a vegetative state for the rest of their lives. Completely dependant on others. Would the doctors start to play God? Which life would be deemed to be of higher worth?….I really would like to know more about it.
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