tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post4360207121817343096..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Do Not Hope for a Minute I Would Not Turret, Moat, and Knight for YouUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-31615073220934553082019-10-04T10:50:37.991-04:002019-10-04T10:50:37.991-04:00speaking of als, such as kim shattuck has died fro...speaking of als, such as kim shattuck has died from, earlier this week i read about a nova scotian physician - a year younger than i am - who was terminally ill from als - <br /><br />https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dr-brian-davis-als-organ-donor-medically-assisted-death-1.5295901<br /><br />instead of waiting to pass away from the disease, he requested medically assisted death<br /><br />and, as the final contribution he could make in a life characterized by service to others, he requested that his quite-recently-deceased-on-the-operating-table body be used as a source of organs to be transplanted to others<br /><br />if all went as planned, this happened yesterday - speaking as a time traveler from the 20th century, i wonder if this intentional act, by a team of highly skilled persons using modern technology, is good or bad<br /><br /><b>how's x?<br />compared to what? </b><br /><br />i am reminded of a movie i have seen - <br /><br /><b><i>Never Let Me Go</i> is a 2010 British dystopian romantic tragedy film based on Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel <i>Never Let Me Go</i>.</b><br /><br />the logical endpoint of organ donation as an outcome of medically assisted death has already received serious discussion -<br /><br />Intensive Care Medicine<br /><br />September 2019, Volume 45, Issue 9, pp 1309–1311 <br /><b>Death by organ donation: euthanizing patients for their organs gains frightening traction</b><br /><br /><br /> E. Wesley Ely<br /><br />Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, VA Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine<br />Vanderbilt University<br />Nashville USA<br /><br />This article was originally published in USA Today on May 2, 2019 - republished here with only minor edits for wider access to the medical audience.<br /><br /><i>Author note<br /><br />We won’t all agree on this complicated topic. This article is to stimulate us to have healthy conversations. My hope, through republishing this piece in Intensive Care Medicine, is that that we will learn from each other in a spirit of dialogue and unsparing directness.</i><br /><br />How should society respond to the increasingly long list of people waiting for organs on a transplant list? You’ve no doubt heard of “black market” organs in foreign countries, but are there other options that should be off the table? If you were on a transplant list, would it matter to you if the organ was obtained from a living person who died because of the donation procedure itself? What if she had volunteered?<br /><br />Your thoughts on this topic have implications beyond the issue of transplantation. As the former co-director of Vanderbilt University’s lung transplant program and a practicing intensive care unit physician, I see organ donation a selfless gift to those approaching death on transplant wait lists. However, I’m wrestling with the emerging collision between the worlds of transplantation and euthanasia.<br /><br />for more see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-019-05702-1<br /><br />as dr. ely notes, for the freshest, most optimal donated organs, it's better to take them out while the donor is still alive<br /><br /><br />this is the future - you got to LIVE it, or LIVE WITH it - or get out of the way - one way or another<br /><br /><br /><br />may the creative forces of the universe smile in our general direction<br /><br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com