Being an organ donor can be very rewarding.
Obviously, you have the opportunity to prolong the life of a fellow human being. So long as you donate a twinned organ, such as a kidney or a lung, while lucid, you make an honorable act.
Take for instance now-Bishop of El Paso, Texas Mark Seitz. As a priest in the Diocese of Dallas in 2009, he donated one of his kidneys to one of his parishioners.
Carrie Gehling received the “holy kidney” after diabetes had already claimed both her legs, and had caused four heart attacks.
Then again, being an organ donor can literally cost you your life. Organ donation has become an increasingly corrupt industry that is best to be avoided altogether.
If you have your driver’s license marked that you would like to be an organ donor upon your death, please rethink that.
Here are four reasons you should take yourself off the registry of donors.
1. Hospitals No Longer Wait for You to be, You Know, Dead
Traditionally, for someone to be declared dead, classic signs would need to be verified. One’s heart would have stopped beating. One may stop breathing.
Doctors no longer wait for those telltale signs. Instead, they have crafted a new definition of someone’s demise: brain death.
Your heart may be beating. You may be able to breathe on your own. But that may make no difference.
Just take the infamous example of Caroline Burns.
She was on the operating table, and seconds before the doctors cut her open to harvest her organs, she opened her eyes.
Or just ask Sam Schmid, a college student presumed “brain dead.” A few hours before he was set to have his organs harvested, he too awoke.
In England, 17-year-old Steven Thorpe was declared “brain dead” by doctors. They asked his parents for permission to harvest his organs. His parents refused, not giving up hope. The young man woke from his coma two weeks later. He left the hospital seven weeks later to carry on a normal life.
This could be you.
2. Financial Gains May Make Your Life Expendable
Why are doctors so careless?
It is easy for many to point to the financial rewards of the organ harvesting industry. Hospitals and health care officials stand to make a big pay day. When a warm, viable organ gets removed from one “dead” body to be transplanted into another body, tens of thousands of dollars or more change hands.
No doubt, money talks. It can be easy for health care officials to cut a few corners when a fatter wallet entices them.
Could such a price be placed on your life?
It is ironic, is it not? You want to give the gift of life. Yet, the “reward” for being an organ donor is that your life could be taken from you.
3. Be Wary of the Philosophy Behind the Culture of Death
But another aspect to be careful of is the dark philosophy behind the organ harvesting industry. That is, the Culture of Death’s arbitrary “quality of life” criteria. By being an organ donor, you are subjecting yourself to becoming a pawn in their game.
Due to the contraceptive mentality prevalent in present-day society, life no longer valued. When someone can choose to kill their own child, life no longer takes on the same significance.
In order to rationalize contraception, children can be welcomed only when circumstances are ideal. Abortion gets justified in the name of saving a child from a life of suffering. And not surprisingly, the elderly are pressured to kill themselves since their lives become physically more difficult in old age.
With this mindset the Culture of Death has entered the organ harvesting industry. They have found another area in which to enforce its “quality of life” metric for living. If someone is deemed not to measure up to their arbitrary standards, then they become expendable.
Steven Thorpe was badly injured in a car accident. To the doctors, his life was no longer worth living.
Sam Schmid survived a horrific snowmobile accident. To the medical staff, his quality of life was presumed to be so low with no chance to recover. They deemed his life expendable.
Someday, you could be in Steven or Sam’s position.
4. Your Consent to Having Your Organs Harvested May Not Be Required Anyway
The day has already come where so-called “presumed consent” may be assumed of someone.
In the country of Wales, the government switched to an “opt-out” system of organ harvesting. Up to that point, countries waited for each person to “opt in” to the program. Wales assumes you are willing to donate your organs, and now requires you to opt out, if you so desire.
We must fight any legislation that may be proposed in this country to this same end. Be on the look out.
IN CLOSING
It is ironic, is it not? You want to give the gift of life. Yet, the “reward” for being an organ donor is that your life could be taken from you.
We need to stand up to the barbarity of organ harvesting from living human beings.
We must ensure each person is granted the dignity to die naturally.
We do not want to be living and presumed “brain dead.”
We do not wish to be murdered in the name of organ donation.
YOUR TURN
Were you aware of these instances of people waking up just before their organs were to be harvested?
Are you willing to rethink being an organ donor?
Please sound off with your thoughts below.
