Moral Dilemma...

[Avalux]

Someone you love is in a terrible accident and can't be saved. Since this person is an organ donor, the hospital makes preparations to provide the organs to people all over the country in great need of a miracle.

You overhear a conversation by hospital staff and find out your beloved's heart will be transplanted into Dick Cheney. Your beloved's heart will keep him alive.

What do you do?

[niyad]

1. what moral dilemma? HELL NO

[PBS Poll-435]

2. Thank god I don't have to make that decision.

UNOS

www.unos.org

[sharesunited]

3. You put your faith in institutions even when you don't like the outcome.

I would always fight to question why a recipient on the list gets bumped to a received-now status.

Especially a patient of Cheney's suitability.

Unless we are engaged in the outright sale of human organs. Are we?

[Avalux]

5. In Cheney's case, yes.

His money will buy him a new heart.

[sharesunited]

6. There is in a flaw in a system in which you can buy you a major organ despite your suitability.

It makes a mockery of a science based system.

It even makes a mockery of a system in which a consumer products visionary like Steve Jobs gets to be in a preferred line.

So why Dick Cheney? Money alone? Or does he have the love of the People in some way?

If you define the People as including...

[leftstreet]

4. Irrelevant. Cheney's body would reject a human heart n/t

[Delphinus]

8. Excellent reply!!

:toast:

[NaturalHigh]

7. If the person is an organ donor, I would respect his or her wishes.