July 30, 2007
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Organ Donation
A surgeon has been charged for giving a disabled patient “excessive drugs” to make him die faster so he could use his organs for a transplant.
Prosecutors have said that Dr. Hootan Roozrokh prescribed morphine and an anti-anxiety drug to Ruben Navarro so he could use his organs. Here is the link: Link
Have you ever been afraid to donate your organs out of concern they would kill you early for your organs?
Comments (90)
nahh.
i do, but i really shouldn’t. ^_^
Third! Nope.
Yes. : P I’m paranoid like that.
No
I’m not an organ donor anyway. I might be in the future, but it scares me. I have thought about it and realised it probably rarely ever happens, but if I’m dying anyway why can’t little Timmy have my heart?
No. I’ve hesitated being a donor in case reincarnation is true. Imagine being a donor and then in the next life you are born as a crocodile with no eyes or something. Nah.
No, I am not a donor out of concern for the people who might receive my organs.
Yes, and for that reason, I’m not a registered organ donor. However my parents know that in the case of my death, that I would like to donate my organs.
I read the article. It is a veru underground and shady practice…
i’m a donor but tbh i’m not that worried. if i was dying anyway it doesn’t really harm to kill me a lil bit faster.
Never have, but now that you mention it.. It sounds kind of scary. o.o
I don’t think it’s crossed my mind. Weird.
Just kill the Bright Eyes fans! Although their organs are unworthy. And may communicate bad taste.
That SOB doctor..see, that is why i dont trust anyone whose name i cannot pronounce, especially physicians. That poor man.
I am not a donor, i shall leave the way i came in, dead or not.
Regarding the question no, I’ve never been afraid that they would just pump me full of stuff to get my goods, but i gues I never really thought about it. Its no doubt though, that what the doctor did was unethical. Helping a patient die quickly to stop suffering and pain is one thing, but doing it just to get his organs faster is just plain wrong.
RYC: Gen. Ed. classes are nice an all, but I’m glad I’ll be done with them. I’m looking foward to taking classesthat are directly related to my major.
No
No, I’m not that paranoid, but now I will think twice.
I wasn’t worried before, but thanks for freaking me out with that possibility
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Nah. Some days I advertise my healthy kidneys in hospitals in hopes that someone might kill me sooner…
wow. not until now, I haven’t.
nu uh.
Never crossed my mind…
Yeah.
Nah.. Not all Drs are that crazy!!
haha i just changed my license and am no longer a donor. at first i felt selfish, but then again i have a right to be selfish of my organs and body parts.
No but it does seem that it would be strange in the case that part of you will be forever trapped in the wrong body. However if it saves a life then i can live with that. I would be afraid that they might cut me while i was still alive.
No never.
This relates right back to one of your other posts about euthanasia. There is a slippery slope. Never should it be legal. Things like this would happen more often. I’m still an organ donor though.
-David
Can’t say I’ve ever been worried about that. lol
Not before I read this story…
Um no
Hospitals fucking scare me. Blood makes me shrivel.
no
never thought of it that way…
I think I mentioned this when I got my cute new license.. I had said I thought adding some sort of disclaimer about how my lungs were tarred and my brain was fried etc etc, they might not be so quick to take me out for anything..
RYC:
Thank you.. that was a fine compliment .. especially coming from The Dan.
not afraid at all
No.
& I’m still not.
Personally, if they were to kill me early to save someone else’s life, I wouldn’t mind one bit. Although, I might like to say a few final words to some important people in my life.
Now I am..
i think when i was originally registered as a driver my id indicated that i was an organ donor, now i’ve changed states and i don’t think my new id has that on there, i’m not sure if i am or not anymore
i would hope that doctors would have enough intergrity to treat each patient’s life as important, and it saddens me to hear of cases otherwise
YES! that’s why I don’t register as an organ donor whenever I get a new liscence. I just see myself going to the hospital to get my appendix out or something, and waking up missing a kidey. Or not waking up at all!
No. I opt from donating.
no. . .never thought about that.
And I see other people haven’t either!
I haven’t signed up to donate any organs after death however. . .
… i never thought of that.
No, I’m an organ donor, but my Mom has expressed that exact fear.
Nope cause I’d already be dead.
I’m always afraid that if I get pulled over, the cop will see the little red heart on my driver’s license, and shoot me in the back of the head.
Uh… well thanks for planting that thought into my mind, Dan! But if I was too far gone to protest a doctor killing me off early, they might as well go ahead anyway…
Thats a good point.
I plan on giving every organ except eyes and skin when I die.
Weird… I would think excessive drugs would kill the liver and kidneys, but maybe they were after different organs. You know, this is the time when it helps to read that “link”.
Nope.
I imagine that this is an extremely rare occurance. Yes it can happen, but I wouldn’t worry about it too much because there’s not much I can do. A wise man once said ”Who by worrying can add a single day to his life?”
I’m planning on donating my body to science but I’ve never thought they would hurry along my death. If I was dying anyways . . . I don’t know.
actually im not planning to donate my organs
No, My father in law received a heart by transplant 3 years ago, so, I am all for organ donation. It really is amazing.
not at all
ABSOLUTELY.
No. Thanks for putting that thought in my mind, Dan.
yes, which is why im not an organ donor
No, but now i might
dang
Daniel (doubledb)
no.
Before..nope, I used to be only worried about kidnappers stealing organs and selling them as black market. And now at least I hope not too many physicians are like that. But overall, I’m happy to be a donor.
and these are the stories that make the press. How about the funderahomes with the special rooms to take DEAD people’s body parts? Horror to them and family, but maybe WORSE horror to recipient? hmm…. Wonder what else goes on?
Heard of prostitutes in India where the john wakes up without a kidney! Worse than the wallet, and much more valuable.
amazing. Not afraid yet. maybe will change my status though
i never knew there was such thing
….well, I didn’t before this post. Thanks.
Can’t say I have.
I don’t know why somebody wouldn’t be a donor…I guess now the paranoid people have an excuse…
Creepy. I’ve thought about it and maybe its more frequent than we would even like to think. Perhaps some doctors get away with it even. Maybe they can ask you on the back of your drivers liscense that if your going to die in the next 24 hours and they need your organs right away if you would please sign on the dotted line to be extinquished even quicker for use of your organs …okay thats creepy too and I haven’t answered the question, yes it concerns me, no it doesn’t prevent me from doing it because I think God is more in control of my organs and where they might land upon my death more than a doctor.
Um… isn’t that sort of illegal???? I’ll still donate my organs though.
Good God, if I were in the situation that poor guy was in- I would have my family sue if I wasn’t prescribed large amounts of morphine and anxiety meds! I’ve always said that I would like to die with the basic dignity given to any beloved family pet. I don’t advocate that as health policy, but its what I want when I am old and in the last days of life.
Oh great, this is exactly the kind of thing doctors need to be known for. : ( Know this : when I graduate med school and start practicing, I promise not to kill anyone faster just so I can get their organs.
I’m an organ donor, and even though this thought has crossed my mind, I’m not that worried about it. If I die, I die. Maybe someone can live because of it.
~Brittany
Just an afterthought, but all that excessive medicine can’t be good for the organs can it? Ew. Imagine getting that as a recipient.
Uh, no, haven’t spent any time thinking about that.
no. that’s a very rare occurence, if it will ever happen again. organ donation is a cause near and dear to my heart. in the end, if i had to die to save someone else’s child, or mommy, or uncle, then so be it.
No, but my husband gets pissed everytime I put that sticker on my driver’s license and that is his exact reasoning. No one is going to try and save me once they see I am a donor . . .
Wow, not till now!!!!!!!
It’s sad, but I think they should put that doctor in jail!!!!!!!
I know that’s harsh, but you can’t just kill someone. If they don’t put him in jail….he should be stripped of his practice.
I am not an organ donor for such reasons.
not at all. I work in surgery and trust me, so many people I work with are very disturbed by participating in donation cases. I just cant imagine that doc woudl tr to kill someone for any purpose…
Stories like that are why i didnt check that little box
nah i’d like to donate my organs. good cause.
I am not surprised by this turn of events. In fact, it probably happens more than we know.
I am not an organ donor by the way. I’m taking all my stuff with me when I die!
Yes, and that is the very reason why I’m not an organ donor.
I am on a donor list and have no fear at all.
No. If I die early, that probably means god intended for me to die early.
LOL!!! This is exactly what my friend asked me. No, I’m an organ donor, and I really don’t care. I’ll be dead anyways, so why should I care?
They want YOUR organs – especially if your YOUNG!
I know all about their lies. Go to: http://WWW.MYFOXNY.COM and search the movie clip using words: organ donation controversy. Young man cut on for organs – 29 minutes before pronounced dead. He was tortured like this man from California. Don’t fall for their b/s – 60% of all organs go to people 50-70 years of age!!!
Have a little more faith in doctors people, MOST of them really are trying to HELP people, and if relieving his pain while he died ALSO had the side effect of meaning that his organs would be available to save someone else’s life sooner, and there was NOTHING that could save the guy, who cares? They sometimes leave people on life support a little longer so that they are ready to take the organs.
Anybody who isn’t an organ donor, or a blood donor (heck, that’s EASY), shame on you, unless you reasons are based on your religion. You’re going to feel really differently if it’s your mom or your kid that needs a donated organ, and they die because people wanted to be buried or cremated with parts they can never use again.
Hahahahahaha no but now I am concerned. Damn doctors.
Yes. I signed up for organ donation if something were to happen to me, but I told my aunt to give the dr.s the 3r degree before I’m parted with my spleen.
No, I just don’t want to.
No. That’s ridiculous. If anyone actually does that it’s very rare, they only will take your organs if you’re pretty much brain-dead anyway.