is it moral?
what about blood transfusions?
i read once that people who had donated organs eg a liver or something, after they had recovered from surgery they began to TAKE ON PERSONALITY TRAITS OF THE DONAR. WAT THE FLAMING HELL IS THAT ABOUT ITS SCARING THE LIVING HELL OUT OF ME THAT IM TOO SCARED TO LEAVE THE HOUSE INCASE I GET IN AN ACCIDENT, HAVE AN ORGAN DONATION AND THEN BECOME SOME SORT OF JEKYLL & HYDE CREATION. please help.
2007-07-17 07:14:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
I've done about 120 liver transplants, half of which were from living donors. None of my recipients began to behave like their donors. I suspect the guy who wrote what you read was high on something. Or was it you.....?
2007-07-18 06:14:21 · answer #1 · answered by Vinay K 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you've been watching too many horror movies.
Organ donation and blood transfusion are both wonderful scientific advances. I'm sure the Jehovah's Witnesses will disagree, but being in the health care field I find it amazing that we can transfuse blood into someone and make them better very quickly - or we can replace an organ that is failing with another human organ and they can live for many more years.
Yes - very moral.
The harder question is: should we be putting this blood or human organ into this particular patient?
(Especially the ones who will trash their body in one way or another - usually we try to vote No for this)
Interesting that with all these horror stories of people developing personality traits from their donated organs there are no stories of personality changes after blood transfusion. I guess it's a little harder to track down whose personality you are supposed to be changing into.
But you'd think that the blood - which goes all over the body - has much more chance of affecting personality than does say a kidney that is stuck down in the pelvic region.
2007-07-17 07:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that, if what you say people say about becoming like that person is true, it's nothing to worry about.
Eg: Jill needs a kidney. Jack donates his kidney to Jill. Jill is very touched by Jack's sacrifice and begins spending as much time with him as she can. Spending so much time with Jack naturally causes Jill to pick up some of his mannerisms. That's the only explanation I can think of aside from coincidence. As for the question of morality: of course it's moral. It's probably one of the most honorable things one person can do for another person. It's second only to giving your own life for someone else's in my opinion.
2007-07-17 07:27:24 · answer #3 · answered by fngretnman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one will force you to accept a transplant.
If you don't want one, say so.
For others, they want the opportunity to give a better life to someone after they've died, so become donors.
Some want to live so much that they'd rather accept a transplant than die.
You do what you like and let others suit themselves
2007-07-17 08:36:47 · answer #4 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How is it not moral to sacrifice part of yourself to help another person live?
2007-07-17 07:20:10 · answer #5 · answered by JLynes 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
by donating organ to needful is making urself immortal after death.
2007-07-17 09:34:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋