Racist kidneys and livers?

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

Hundreds of them! Ya know, blondes and.... dirty blondes.



It brings up memories of my former school's soccer and rugby coach. He's from Ireland and he'd tell me about playing and coaching in Europe and how whenever he played the Nordic teams it felt he was playing an army of clones.

He said watching them come off the plane was like viewing the end of an assembly line.

And so he moved to America. Good times. ^_^

-Da Mose

If he would have said those "clones" and "assembly line" comments about a similarily looks-consistent team from Africa, then how would you - and other people taken that?


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!


This does not contain racism, but since sibling donation has been touched upon in thread before, I think that it is not too much of a thread drift.

----Snipped from news-----
CHICAGO - Indiana officials recommended on Friday that Gregory Johnson, 40 who is facing execution next week should not get clemency, a decision that could end his attempt to donate part of his liver to his sister, Deborah Otis.

A spokeswoman for the Indiana Parole Board said the panel’s four members voted unanimously to recommend that Johnson be denied clemency. There was no separate vote on a stay, she said.

During a hearing before the parole board, Johnson’s lawyer said blood tests found his liver would be compatible with his sister.

Johnson contended the lethal injection of chemicals used for executions would poison the organ, making a post-execution transplant impossible. There was disagreement among medical experts on whether that would be the case.

If Johnson donates part of his liver, it could take up to two months for him to recover enough to return to death row.

Transplant requests from death row prisoners in the United States have occurred before, though they are unusual, according to Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

In 1995, a condemned Delaware man donated a kidney to his mother, and returned to death row. In Alabama, a prisoner awaiting execution won permission for an organ donation, but he was not a correct match, Dieter said.

In a Florida case, an inmate was denied a request to donate a kidney to his brother. The condemned man was later exonerated and released from jail, but his brother died waiting for a transplant, Dieter said.
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"recover enough to return to death row" - Oh the irony!

Personally, I think that he should have been a donor - exactly whose rights are trampled upon by such a transplant?

This happened in May 2005. He was subsequently executed without and donation, I do not know what happened to his sister. There was some differing opinions on whether he would be a medically good donor to his sister. However, if she wants to have the organs and he is willing to give them, I think that the parole board and governor should have a right to second guess anything - medical desicions should be left to doctors.

When googling around for this story I found some that disagree. Witness this:

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I was reading this morning that this man had been executed. I read his story with interest last week and came to the determination that no, he should not be allowed to donate his liver.

It may sound callous, which is clearly not my intent, but one thing that most murderers do not realize is that their actions affect more than just the person they killed. By maliciously killing someone (stomping an 84 year old woman to death?), they not only harm the victim, they wound to the core the family members and friends of the victims as well. Plus, (and this is where this story comes into play) they do a grave injustice to their own family members.

It's important to understand the ramifications of murder. By making that one decision to take someone's life, they give up their own...no matter how well-intentioned they are. The state isn't making his sister the victim because they wouldn't allow him to donate a lobe of his liver...he did. His actions prevented him from being able to choose to help her. Had he not stopped by that woman's house that night, the story might be different.

He made his sister the victim...him and him alone.

Very sad.
~Peachy
Comment from jcgeorgiapeach
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"It may sound callous, which is clearly not my intent" Well, Peachy, I do not believe that you represent your intent here truthfully.
"The state isn't making his sister the victim because they wouldn't allow him to donate a lobe of his liver...he did" Pure cr*p. There is no technical problem with transplanting from a convict. Peachy, you made that up.
Peachy: Until proven otherwise, I will assume that you just want to get even on the sister for her brother´s crime. In short, you are a creep.

There, I had to get that off my chest. Note also that that blogger is not the same person as own fnet101 member with a similar netname.


Peter Gustafsson

[jBirch]

And they couldn't just shoot him in the head because...?

James.