From: lvc@cbnews.cb.att.com (Larry Cipriani)
Subject: Re: interesting [and scary] blurb...
Organization: Ideology Busters, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:38:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.184941.6791@mksol.dseg.ti.com> noonan@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Michael P Noonan) writes:
>How can anyone sit here and say, "I don't want so-and-so to have my
>organs because I don't agree with his political views."

I don't see why you think this is so unreasonable.  If someone has spent
so much of their life working towards their values and dreams why would
they want to help someone with the opposive values and dreams ?

It would cause me great distress, today, that someone who was opposed
to my ideals of person freedom and liberty could ever get their facist
paws on my organs.  Let them die in agony, I say.  Why should I be party
to their continued attacks on the freedom and liberty of my friends and
family after my organs are in their body and they are healthy again ?

Why the hell would I want to do that ?

Why the hell would you want to do that with your own values and dreams ?

>I am personally disgusted that someone could have the potential to be
>so selfish to not share something of which they have no need.

Be disgusted; you won't get my organs either.

I am not an altruist.  Why is it so hard to comprehend that some people
feel strongly about their values and dreams ?

If you have no values and dreams, well, fine, give your kidney
to Jeffery Dahmer.  Actualy, don't he'll just eat it.

>Everyone should be a donor.  It shouldn't even be a question.

Sure it should.  Some people have a religous objection to it, perhaps
their God doesn't approve of mutilation.  Some people, mostly women,
don't want to donate those organs which would result in disfiguration.
Some people are just bothered a great deal about the idea of having
their guts ripped out, even after they are dead.  Not a pleasant thought.

Ever consider donating your body to science ?  That's very noble; however,
you ought to do it with full knowledge of what can happen to your body.
For example, it could be frozen solid and then sliced into 1 inch cross
sections.  Sounds like fun, eh ?  It gets more grotesque than that.  Just
ask anyone who has taken an anatomy class.

>Why should your dead body have rights over it's organs?

I should have the right today to decide how my body will be disposed of.

>Should your dead body still be considered a person
>according to the law?  What utter bullshit!

My "trust" is a legal person, and has the legal right to dispose of
property and other assets.  I don't see an issue with having my "trust"
dispose of my corpse per my instructions.

Or do you believe personal property, e.g., the house I spent years
paying for and working on, should also be "shared" with whoever
needs it ?  Why is that any different, assuming noone else lives there
and the mortgage is paid off ?  I don't need it anymore, I'm dead!

>Complete bullshit.  That doctor should go to jail and never get out.

Grant it's far fetched, but it's within the realm of possibility, which
is all that Andy is stating.
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Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox1!lvc or lvc@cbvox1.att.com
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