Quote Originally posted by: clcjim The 9-year-old girl who died in the Tucson shooting has donated organs to a young girl in Boston, who needed them to survive.
I am completely incapable of making an intelligent comment about any of this, so I think I'll just let it stand.
Her parents are to be praised for this. What a difficult thing to face, to have the grace to do. Give life to another child.
Upsetting to me is that the media just keeps reporting and reporting on this A$$HOLE. In our local paper they ran two pictures one of the Congresswoman and the other of the A$$ side by side. I felt this was very distasteful and wrong. Myself I'm tired of seeing his sorry A$$ still breathing. They need to be honoring the wounded and the dead and bury his picture in a hole. Why is everyone blaming someone else rahter than the shooter for his actions. Sure just looking at his picture you see he is not wrap tight. Several witnesses seen the shooter and to not mess up a trial the media kept reporting they had arrested subject at the site. Will justice be carried out????
Quote Originally posted by: clcjim The 9-year-old girl who died in the Tucson shooting has donated organs to a young girl in Boston, who needed them to survive.
There some amount of comfort in that, I suppose.
And I hope it serves to inspire others to arrange to have their organs donated too.
I cant attest to this from personal experience but from what I understand families do not struggle with this decision as much as you might think.
They dont see it as their loved one being butchered by a doctor. They see it as their loved one continuing to live on in someone else's body. Its not motivated simply as an act of charity to the recipient (which doesn't make it any less noble - it most certainly is).
Quote Originally posted by: pjstroh I cant attest to this from personal experience but from what I understand families do not struggle with this decision as much as you might think.
They dont see it as their loved one being butchered by a doctor. They see it as their loved one continuing to live on in someone else's body. Its not motivated simply as an act of charity to the recipient (which doesn't make it any less noble - it most certainly is).
Pj, I beg to differ with you. I work with several different transplant groups and a MAJORITY of them who have to make this decision struggle very hard with this.
pjstroh, you have topped all your previous posts with this one. when you nothing to say, it is better to say nothing. Butchered by a doctor? you are to cool.
pjstroh, you have topped all your previous posts with this one. when you nothing to say, it is better to say nothing. Butchered by a doctor? you are to cool.
