Let's say, there's an old guy who's dying, he doesn't want to be an organ donor. He wants to keep his dignity, and be buried with all of his organs which are useless afther his death, although he knows that a person's life could be saved by giving organs.
Would you say he's an immoral person?
2007-06-12 00:25:18 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Jim San Antonio, it's true that people harvest organs as soon as the brain stops working, that's called brain death. And you can't actually wait for someone to be dead completely and take his organs.
2007-06-12 00:53:39 · update #1
in my eyes yes
I'm gonna be an organ donor (when I'm dead!)
i mean gee some people die with only half their organs cause the other half is smushed on the road!
I'm not gonna need em when I'm dead!
I think its a nice thought that i may help someone even when I'm dead :P
2007-06-12 00:34:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No, it is a personal choice-not a moral choice. If it were a moral choice, then we should be donating while we are still alive (like kidneys and bone marrow), but we don't. Why would it be immoral only if we are dead to help people who are living when we can help while we are still alive? I would also imagine that most organ transplants are from younger people killed in accidents rather than old people who don't have the best working organs in the first place.
Also the way they do organ transplants these days, they do not wait for the body to completely die before harvesting organs. In the Buddhist faith, it is important to leave the body alone until all brain waves and electrical implulses are gone which shows the life force has completely moved on. At that point, it would be fine to harvest organs, but before then, you are still dealing with a lingering life force. Now days, they harvest organs as soon as the brain is dead, but before the body is dead.
Comment: Yes, I know what brain dead is. As a Buddhist, I also know that my life force should not be interferred with until it has left the body. So back to my conclusion, iti is not immoral to not donate organs. It would be a violation of my religious views. One does not interfer with the death process because that can cause an interference with the next life process.
2007-06-12 00:37:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jim San Antonio 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not immoral. That is most definitely a personal choice. As great as it would be to be able to help out someone else, some people want to leave with what they were born with. The other thing is some people believe that if they were organ donors and the medical team working on them knew that, they may not do everything in their power to save that person. I am undecided to how I feel about it.
2007-06-12 00:38:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not immoral not to be an organ donor. There is no obligation to donate your organs. Until recently, we didn't even have the technology to harvest body parts. Conversely, if someone does not believe in taking body parts from another, why should that person be compelled to give his/her body parts to someone else upon death. It's a personal choice. There's nothing wrong with living and dying with the organs you were born with, regardless of what someone else thinks or wants.
2007-06-12 00:30:18 · answer #4 · answered by la buena bruja 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think he is immoral but I don't understand someone who doesn't want to be organ donor! And why do you have the view that it is undignified to be an organ donor! Thank god people don't think it's undignified to give blood or a lot of people would not be here! I just hope you or a family member of yours are never in the position where you might need this service as you might find a lot of other people have had the same views as that old man and you may not get the help you need! Our organs rot once we die whereas the could save someones life! THINK ABOUT IT!
2007-06-12 00:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by twistedshower 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i'm a chosen organ donor upon my death. i'm in choose of organ donor on the grounds it relatively is yet in a various thank you to maintain lives. If I actually have a superbly good, functioning organ why positioned it interior the grave? i'm in choose of it because of the fact i like helping human beings and that i've got faith it relatively is a good ingredient of do. no longer something immoral approximately it in any respect as long because it does not fall into the palms of profiteers. Yeah the coolest, undesirable, and the grotesque are obtainable. You do the proper you are able to.
2017-01-06 09:47:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I am not an organ donor because if I'm gonna die someone is going down with me. I just hope its some poor jerk that could have lived if i would have given them my organ.
Besides, here's a scenario:
Your older now and got in a car wreck. On the way to the hospital, the paramedic can see you are an organ donor. This paramedic knows that a young kid is waiting for an organ somewhere else. Will he let you die to save this young boy (who might remind him of his own son perhaps)?
2007-06-12 00:37:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
some may be worried about the govt letting people die to get their organs.
I personally think organs should be able to be sold if someone wanted too. Funerals are expensive and families can go into debt or have to sell the family home. Let the person make a last contribution to his children and widow
2007-06-12 00:35:57 · answer #8 · answered by stephaniemorosi2 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No I wouldn't say he is immoral. I think trying to cajole and force and guilt people into donating their organs is immoral.
In my opinion you get what your given. End of story.
2007-06-12 00:43:35 · answer #9 · answered by Monkey Magic 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. Everyone has their own beliefs and we must respect them.
But it would be immoral to take his organs with out his consent
2007-06-12 06:35:21 · answer #10 · answered by Damian S 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋