{"id":1064,"date":"2007-07-05T19:09:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T17:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/07\/05\/i-do-not-wish-to-donate-organs-after-death\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T17:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T15:02:28","slug":"i-do-not-wish-to-donate-organs-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/07\/i-do-not-wish-to-donate-organs-after-death\/","title":{"rendered":"I do not wish to donate organs after death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True or not, there are reports about sale of human organs from prisoners in China (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/g\/drl\/rls\/rm\/2001\/3792.htm\">link1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/TED\/prisonorgans.htm\">link2<\/a>) and India (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/wirtschaft\/0,1518,488035,00.html\">link3<\/a>). I do not want to be involved in a business where life is being prolonged until multi organ explanation and death being defined by ever changing arbitrary criteria.<\/p>\n<p>I have also a deeply rooted belief about the integrity of the human body &#8211; there is natural barrier against organ transplantation both from an immunological and psychological side (cannibalism is a taboo in every human culture). So, I would like to ask doctors in the emergency room to work hard to save my life (as I did also for many years rescuing other lifes).<\/p>\n<p>In case, you want to read more on that topic, please go to an excellent essay in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taz.de\/dx\/2005\/12\/27\/a0133.1\/text\">TAZ<\/a>. Many other physicians will share my belief, that donation of organs should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/2007\/19\/Ethikrat-Contra\">remain an individual decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True or not, there are reports about sale of human organs from prisoners in China (link1, link2) and India (link3). I do not want to be involved in a business where life is being prolonged until multi organ explanation and death being defined by ever changing arbitrary criteria. I have also a deeply rooted belief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/07\/i-do-not-wish-to-donate-organs-after-death\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I do not wish to donate organs after death<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[4912,4913,1156,1159,1160,1154,1164,1157,1155,1162,1158,1163,1161],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy","tag-organ","tag-transplantation","tag-cannibalism","tag-emergency_room","tag-human_body","tag-human_organs","tag-integrity","tag-natural_barrier","tag-organ_transplantation","tag-prisoners","tag-psychological_side","tag-recipient","tag-taboo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24077,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/24077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}