What if those people have diseases (like aids, for example), or perhaps religious reasons to not want to give their organs?
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· 6 years ago
Disease would be a good excuse, but I don’t really understand religious reasons. Aren’t most religions about being loving and generous? What is more generous than giving away your own body? Also, if they don’t want their organs in other peoples’ bodies, why would they want other peoples’ organs in their own bodies?
In some religions it's not "allowed" to donate things like organs and blood. It can be about purity, respect, traditions (for example full-body-cremation or special rituals), or the belief that the state of the body transfers to the afterlife.
As for getting an organ transplant, I'm not sure. In a majority of religions it is allowed to receive organs should it save your life, and in turn it is also allowed to donate them. But it's the donor's/receiving party's own body, which means it's their choice. I don't think it's fair to place someone at bottom of the list just because they don't want to give organs.
Yeah no I agree placing people lower on the list is wrong, I just don’t understand why people who don’t want to donate for religious reasons would want to receive organs
Because they want to live/live more comfortably, I guess?
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· 6 years ago
Yeah but surely of their religion prohibits their organs from being in someone else’s body, the same thing goes for someone else’s organ in their body? Otherwise it’s a bit hypocritical
It doesn't matter if it's religious reasons. It is the exact same thing as someone not wanting to just because thy don't want to. The only difference is that, in the religious reasons, it show that the person needs therapy to get rid of their delusions.
I’m 50/50 on this, because I’m all for being a donor, but it’s also your body and you should do with it as you please. No one person is better than another or deserves any less medical attention because of their decision, even if it does sound selfish and cruel to others
why wouldn't you want to donate your organs? Did you know that people who have received donated organs tend to develop personality traits that resemble the donor? I'd rather have parts of me live on and hopefully have the best parts of me instead of my just rotting in a box by myself... or worse... being put in a furnace.
I have one exception... If I'm gonna be put into a box and shot into space, I want my organs with me and my entire body and mind to freeze and drift for a long time.
I'd be honored... shit what if they could re-animate me?
Chilling... then chillin with aliens. I'm game.
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Question somewhat related to this: What if you donate an organ and the person who gets it is also an organ donor? Can the organ be infinitely passed on?
No. The organ eventually develops cancer and dies. You'd have to be able to control the telomerase activity at the ends of genes... which is possible. Whales and tortoises, for example, have much lower telomerase activity than we do. Even then you might only be able to push us to 250 years with that. You'd need nanobots that actively repair telemores and correct misprints in DNA replication that isn't normally corrected with RNA. THEN you'd have to figure out neurons.
I once had a paper from an english professor... I forget what the topic was, but my thesis was that we shouldn't be afraid of medical advances, nor afraid of the robots who will be operating on us... I had to leave out the telemores and just summarize that point with "the immortal jellyfish" because it just took WAY too much and the essay lost focus. He said it was impossible to get a 100 in his class; I got a 100 and he offered to recommend my essay to be published (he used to work for the Dallas Morning News)... I politely declined. Top 5 idiotic things I've ever done.
Seriously though, telemores and telemerase is next level shit. I love chatting about it though.
If you aren't will to donate (excluding health reasons) than why would you recieve, especially if its for religious "purity" reasons. Its not like you are using your organs when you're dead, but you could save multiple lives. If you aren't willing to do that little why should you benefit from someone else's donation.
As for getting an organ transplant, I'm not sure. In a majority of religions it is allowed to receive organs should it save your life, and in turn it is also allowed to donate them. But it's the donor's/receiving party's own body, which means it's their choice. I don't think it's fair to place someone at bottom of the list just because they don't want to give organs.
I have one exception... If I'm gonna be put into a box and shot into space, I want my organs with me and my entire body and mind to freeze and drift for a long time.
Chilling... then chillin with aliens. I'm game.
Seriously though, telemores and telemerase is next level shit. I love chatting about it though.