I have a note in my wallet all the time, ruling that in case of an accident and me not regaining consciousness again or being unable to decide, I refuse to donate body tissues or organs, and also rule out that organs and tissues by others get used on me.
I do not give, and I do not take.
I would consider that only in individual cases and relating to people that are close and dear to me. The kind of people whom I will to take risks for to protect them, or to fight for to defend them. And that excludes just every strolling Peter and Paul. Talking of family, very close friends, and thats it.
A general card blanche for a general bureaucracy to decide on? No.
Abuse of transplant organs in Germany is far from being insignificant. I do not want to help some corrupt doctor to cash extra bribery money just to help out some stranger who never meant anything to me. This doctor around then stiul wpould infest the whole system.
Maybe my position is considered as cold-hearted. But it is
my cold heart, and not somebody else's.
It goes natural that if I do not give, I also do not demand to be given.
Slam that door, please.
Also, many people are not aware -
since it is intentionally hidden from the debate - that the redefinitions of criteria for death and when a patient is dead, have been moved according to the needs of transplantaiton surgery over the decades, the transplantation criteria did not follow the insights of medical research into "death". Today'S brain-death criterion is the result of demands by transplant surgeonms. Because organs taken from an indeed physicologically dead body, cannot be used for transplantation. This never gets said and mentioned anywhere. If somebody is close to death, some may argue since his life is running out anyway, that he should donate the remaining few seconds or minutes or hours or days to give years to somebody else, but truth is that by that you create facts and rule out any other possbilities that sometimes, rarely but sometimes, may happen, against all medical knoweldge and experience. Personally I simply take it qwueer that it silently gets implied that the cause justifies the means and that the public gets lied to in order to increase their willingness to donate - on the grounds of false information.
While I lived, people will time and again have made good use of me, my means, my presence, my money, whatever my existence may have made in difference. I must not even get managed by foreign power in my own death and dying, and be a ressource for the profiteering of others beyond my death. Enough is enough.
No, a great altruistic friend of all mankind I will not become anymore.
