Organ Donation is Barbaric
CNN has a heartwarming
article about how
recipients of organs from the same donor form a kind of extended
family. Do families realise what organ donation entails? Their
loved is slit open and dissected like a frog; he is eviscerated like a
butchered animal. This is disgusting; it is barbaric. We rightly
condemn the savages of New Zealand for eating their dead, but are we any
different? If some cannibal ate my grandmother, I would not invite him
to my wedding—and yet this family did exactly that! Have we so
far lost our moral compass that this seems normal?
Organ donation should be legal; I have no quibble there, for donation is a private matter between consenting parties. But it should be condemned from every pulpit; it should be derided; it should be socially unacceptable. I very much hope that should I ever be faced with a failing body that I resist the temptation to receive a transplant from a corpse. Donation by the living is an entirely different matter, of course—I’d cheerfully give a kidney if needed.
