Organ Please

 Today, organ donation has raised an issue on nursing ethics, this has raised an intense campaign to encourage organ harvesting/donation .There never used to be debate over when someone was dead. If there was no heartbeat, no breathing, and no response to stimulation or resuscitation for a sufficient period of time, it was clear that the death of the person had occurred. The traditional criterion for declaring death (centered on absence of circulation and respiration), however, stands in the way of obtaining unpaired vital organs - such as the heart - in good condition for transplantation.

Why? Because it is necessary for the heart to be beating and blood, carrying oxygen, to be pumping in and out of such organs at the time of removal. Therefore, the desire for vital organs for transplantation prompted some to look for new and different criteria to declare death which would allow functioning organs to be removed from the patient.

In 1968, the notion of "brain death" was formulated and published by an ad hoc committee of the Harvard Medical School. Thus, "brain death" as a criterion for declaring death was proposed and accepted by many.

The practice of declaring death based on "brain death" criterion is flawed. Criteria for declaring death are not something to take lightly. As long as "brain death" continues to be accepted and used as a sole diagnosis for death, some patients will be sent to the grave prematurely.

The “standard position” on organ donation is that the donor must be dead in order for vital organs to be removed, a position with which medical field agreed. Recently, parties have argued that brain death is not death, and even though “brain dead” patients are not dead, it is morally acceptable to remove vital organs from those patients. Some physicians accept and defend their claim that brain death is not death, and they argue against both the “whole brain” criterion and the “brain stem” criterion. Then some answered their arguments in favor of removing vital organs from “brain dead” and other classes of comatose patients. Some dispute their claim that the removal of vital organs is morally equivalent to “letting nature take its course”, arguing that, unlike “allowing to die”, it is the removal of vital organs that kills the patient, not his or her disease or injury. An argue occurred that removing vital organs from living patients is immoral and contrary to the nature of medical practice.

Organ transplantation does not suit me. If it’s time, its time. God moves within you and let His will be done. The body is God’s temple, and He is the only one who has the right to claim it for His. God has lent the human body to be the vessel of the soul but that does not mean that one has the right to harm it. As a borrower, one should be able to take good care of the thing that has been borrowed. If the times comes that the lender wants it back, you’ll be able be return it without hesitations.