Well, I am one of SEVEN Australians under 18 who signed up for organ donation in the last year. Now consider the number of Australians who are waiting for organs to save their lives (easily several hundred thousand), and think again.
Just let me repeat myself, just in case you missed it:
SEVEN
SEVEN
SEVEN
SEVEN!
Out of 19 million people in the nation, and eliminating the adults… that’s like 1-2 in a million Australian minors.
THAT IS TRAGIC.
ORGAN DONATION happens AFTER you are DEAD. As in, you have no nerves. No feelings. Your organs will never help you again.
And you’re looking me in the eye and telling me it’s ok for you to refuse donation because it’s icky?
YOU ARE DISGUSTING.
Heavy drinking made your organs useless has it? Well, are you dying? If not, you are at least one step above what the people on organ donation lists currently have.
So Doctors will let you die for your organs eh? I WOULD LOVE to see you get one scrap of evidence to support that. And if we really must debate, I honestly think that an organ donation card would make you a good person in a Doctor’s eyes, falling into your “bank robber vs friend hit by car” theory.
AND BESIDES, HOW does bias due to bank robbery, race, sex, age relate IN ANY WAY to the topic, I really must know!
And the religion thing: I am Christian, and have never heard of this. No decent religion would seriuosly consider an impact body more important than saving lives. And as for the whole “intact body to get into heaven thing” um… what about people who are beheaded? Mangled in car wrecks? Blown up? Crushed in avalanches? Burned alive? Beheaded?
HECK, are you saying to me John the Baptist is in Hell because his head was removed?
OF COURSE NOT!
You are all mad, and I am asahmed of you.
Get yourself an organ donor card, and pray for forgiveness.