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"Captain Compassion" |
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09 Jul 2006 09:51:14 PM |
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Live organ donors a possibility |
Live organ donors a possibility
MELBOURNE, Australia (UPI) -- Australian health administrators are
considering preparing organ donors for transplants while they are
still alive, it was reported Sunday.
The Sunday Age said the Australian Health Ethics Committee is seeking
to extend transplant preparations to living patients who are certain
to die when the heart and circulation stop. Currently, only brain-dead
patients are prepared for organ transplants.
New procedures would involve inserting tubes into major arteries to
prepare for cleansing of organs after death, blood tests and
administering drugs to better preserve organs.
AECH spokesman Peter Joseph said extending the procedures to living
patients was necessary to preserve solid organs such as hearts,
livers, lungs and kidneys that deteriorated quickly after loss of
circulation. He said it was possible someone could be aware they were
being prepared for harvesting, but this would not be done without the
permission of the donor or the family.
Ray Campbell, a university lecturer in medical ethics and head of the
Queensland Bioethics Center, said he was concerned the changes could
spur some doctors to physicians to hasten patients` deaths.
'Any attempt to water down our current definition of death should be
resisted,' he said.
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"There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to
whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is
impossible." -- Jack Vance
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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Joseph R. Darancette
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| Title: Re: Live organ donors a possibility |
09 Jul 2006 11:00:32 PM |
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Captain Compassion wrote:
Live organ donors a possibility
MELBOURNE, Australia (UPI) -- Australian health administrators are
considering preparing organ donors for transplants while they are
still alive, it was reported Sunday.
Slightly creepy.
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| User: "Captain Compassion" |
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| Title: Re: Live organ donors a possibility |
09 Jul 2006 11:16:34 PM |
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On 9 Jul 2006 21:00:32 -0700, "paulmd@efn.org" <paulmd@efn.org> wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
Live organ donors a possibility
MELBOURNE, Australia (UPI) -- Australian health administrators are
considering preparing organ donors for transplants while they are
still alive, it was reported Sunday.
Slightly creepy.
Those terminally ill should be allowed sell their organs to the
highest bidder in advance if necessary.
--
"Science is the record of dead religions." -- Oscar Wilde
"There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to
whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is
impossible." -- Jack Vance
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net
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