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November 02, 2005
Care to share a kidney?
I'm sure you as well as most of us have heard about the incredibly long National Organ Transplant waiting lists for organ transplant receipients. Most of these organ donations come from recently deceased people who had previously agreed to donate their organs. This list, as helpful and necessary as it is, currently stands for a seemingly endless waiting game that causes an extreme hardship for all patients who's final hope is to receive a donor organ and who might run out of time before their organ finally arrives.
Suddenly, thanks to the Internet, there's an amazing web site which attempts to bring people in need for an organ transplant together with actual living donors as opposed to deceased donors; people who want to voluntairily give one of their own organs to a person in need. For $99 for a 7 day posting or $295 for a 30 day posting people can put themselves in front of an impressive pool of currently over 2,500 living donors. MatchingDonors.com is a web site created to give people in need of transplant surgery an active way to search for a live organ donor. It is their declared goal to increase the number of transplant surgeries and improve awareness of live organ donation. The most common organs transplanted from a live donor are single kidney and liver lobes.
Now, the medical community seems to have an issue with what these guys at MatchingDonors.com are doing. Well, with all due respect to the medics, as long as the motivation of the donor and receipient are genuine and no laws are being broken who gives a f***!? There are thousands and thousands of people in the U.S. and all over the world for that matter who are in desperate need of an organ transplant, and if there are some good and selfless samaritans out there who wish to help I say more power to them. Who cares, if the school medicine has it's objections as long as all of those "meetings of the minds" happen ethically and with the highest integrity.
If anyone has a problem with this I'd like to hear why and how these people would feel about this, if it would be them who need an organ to continue to live.
Posted by Ben at November 2, 2005 01:08 AM
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