The Beating Heart Donors

[Larry Storch]

The pic at the top of the page might be a little unsettling to some, it has to do organ 'donation'.
The information in the article left me a little shaken.

"They urinate. They have heart attacks 
and bedsores. They have babies. They may even feel pain. 
Meet the organ donors who are “pretty dead.” "


discovermagazine.com/2012/may/10

 

[jnewton]

That article is extremely disturbing. It reminds me of an article I read about assisted death in the Netherlands. When older people who had agreed to being killed (and notice I do not use the euphemism "euthanasia" because killing is what it is, not matter what fancy word is used) were asked if they would still want to be killed if it could be arranged that they would not be a burden on their relatives, the vast majority changed their minds.

Both articles demonstrate what happens when science becomes our god and scientists the high priests of that god. Scientists do not have all the answers any more now than they did 500 or 1000 years ago.