At the Bottom of the Slippery Slope
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Something seemed very off to me about Frances’s suicide. So I asked the executor of her estate to send me the “suicide file” kept by the quintessentially organized Frances and was horrified to learn from it that she had been an avid reader of the (now defunct) Hemlock Quarterly , published by the aptly named Hemlock Society (which was since merged into the assisted-suicide advocacy group, Compassion and Choices). The HQ taught readers about the best drugs with which to overdose and gave precise instructions on how to ensure death with a plastic bag—the exact method used by Frances to end her life.
I was furious. Frances’s friends had known she was periodically suicidal and had intervened to help her through the darkness. The Hemlock Society had pushed Frances in the other direction, giving her moral permission to kill herself and then teaching her how to do it. This prompted the first of the many articles I have written over the years against assisted-suicide advocacy. It appeared in the June 28, 1993, Newsweek We don’t get to the Brave New World in one giant leap. Rather, the descent to depravity is reached by small steps. First, suicide is promoted as a virtue. Vulnerable people like Frances become early casualties. Then follows mercy killing of the terminally ill. From there, it’s a hop, skip, and a jump to killing people who don’t have a good “quality” of life, perhaps with the prospect of organ harvesting thrown in as a plum to society . The other shoe—“organ harvesting”—has now dropped. Euthanasia was legalized in Belgium in 2002. It took six years for the first known coupling of euthanasia and organ harvesting, the case of a woman in a “locked in” state—fully paralyzed but also fully cognizant.
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“It's not about organ donation—of course it is, and people will learn a lot about it—but it's also about where we all reside on this continuum of altruism. And that's what attracted me to the film. 'How come she's doing this and I'm not?
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According to Dr. Gilberto Velez of Iglesia Cristiana Misericordia Church in Texas , “there is no biblical evidence that prohibits” organ donation.
Reuters reported earlier this week that Hispanics are less likely to donate organs than Americans as a whole.
"We find that the Hispanic community tells us, 'My religion says not to donate,' and 'I can't have an open casket because the body will be damaged,'" Esmeralda Perez of the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance told Reuters. “They feel that their loved one will be disfigured, or the person will not be able to get into heaven because their body will not be whole."
Norma Garcia, a Christian, was among the few Hispanics who decided to donate her daughter’s heart and liver after she was declared brain dead by doctors in 2001, according to Reuters. The majority of her family was appalled and indignant about Garcia’s decision.
Commenting on the issue, Velez, who also serves as chairman of the Board for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, explained one possible reason some Christians are against organ donation.
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Their opposition, he explained, is based on the interpretation of a part of Scripture where it speaks of bodies being “temples of the Holy Spirit and that we have to take care of our body.”
“But this is an interpretation matter; it is not that the Scripture says it is prohibited,” Velez noted.
A prominent Catholic theologian, the Rev. John Leies, said the church is working to convince believers that organ donation does not render the body unfit for the afterlife.
"The church is well aware that there are so many people waiting for organs, and there are not enough to be supplied and people die without receiving their organs," he said. And he found that "it is difficult to fight against these cultural ideas, and maybe the church hasn't made a good enough effort."
For the evangelical church, Velez explained that it is difficult to speak on behalf of all evangelicals , because there are different denomination s with different viewpoints. However, he said that in general, “the majority of the evangelical people do not oppose organ donation.”
“We are not against it. We do not promote it but we do not condemn the practice. We let the person decide,” he said.
Velez believes there is “support and full recognition of the importance of organ donation for the health of people.
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I'll check into it because I've always been interested in organ donation but don't wanna go against parent wishes!
I asked my dad about organ donation and he said it's against the jewish faith
So, presumed consent for organ donation. Can't see any reasons against it.
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