If you were a Doctor and had five patients all in need of different organs on their death beds, and you also had a healthy patient in the hospital for a physical matching all their donor types, and knowing you could get away with it, would you kill the healthy person to save the lives of the other five patients? Or do you let them die?
2006-11-30 15:31:35 · 23 answers · asked by rowegain 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Thou shalt not kill.What kind of question is that? It's not like the others who were dieing would be your fault, it would be their time to go.But to take the life of someone who had their whole life ahead of them,that would be blood on your hands and you would get caught eventually, if not by anyone else by yourself and God. It would catch up to weigh on your everyday thoughts until it drove you crazy.That my friend is why we are all given a side of consience(spell check)with our free will.
2006-11-30 15:42:12 · answer #1 · answered by lonesome4calle11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the state of the others. If the others were infants or seniors, no I would not do it because chances are their immune system could not handle the new organ anyway. I would also see if each patient had medical conditions that would cause them to reject a matching organ which could also result in their death. The Hippocratic Oath requires you to do whatever to save a life so you could not kill the healthy patient anyway. But, if the healthy patient lays his life down for organ harvesting, then all of the organs for the patients would be fair game, only after throughly screening them for organ acceptance of course!!!
2006-11-30 15:37:43 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no way I would risk the life of someone that I would have, as a doctor, taken an oath to protect. Chances are, the organs in need of repair would be lung, kidney, or liver? All of those organs are ones that a healthy person can donate (I didn't know this, but people give away part of their liver all the time---we just grow it back to normal size if part of it is gone). At any rate, I couldn't justify killing someone to "harvest" what another person might be able to donate while staying alive. That's inhuman.
2006-11-30 15:35:59 · answer #3 · answered by Someone who cares 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well, i think the world is over populated as it is, but if I could harvest the organs of some convict serving a life sentence to save five productive members of society, yes i probably would. would i kill some poor smuck in for a physical to save five other people, no, not when there are decent organs rotting away in prison.
2006-11-30 15:35:21 · answer #4 · answered by rand a 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
How the hell would I save five people with the organs of one? And no. Killing is wrong no matter how you reason it out.
2006-11-30 15:32:39 · answer #5 · answered by PaulN 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would spare the healthy man's life. He has rights, just like the five.
2006-11-30 15:40:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No never an excuse to kill an innocent person
2006-11-30 16:06:02 · answer #7 · answered by wallsatlarge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
o my.. is this a tough one. I think id quit my job. taking 1 healthy life will still send my *** to hell and im all set with going there. but if the healthy guy was on death row id do him the favor
2006-11-30 15:35:22 · answer #8 · answered by julie092179 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, I would not kill the healthy person. Who lives and who dies is God's choice.
2006-11-30 15:34:29 · answer #9 · answered by zil28ennov 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I wont. You are sick.
Have you heard the saying:
"One bird in hand is better than two birds on the branch" or something like that?
I think there should be a link here like: 'Report stupid question', extra over to 'Report abuse' one. LOL
2006-11-30 15:33:34 · answer #10 · answered by amiladm 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋