Sentences with phrase «says donating organs»
Regarding transplants, John Paul II says donating organs is a «particularly praiseworthy» gesture when «performed in an ethically acceptable manner, with a view to offering a chance of health and even of life itself to the sick who sometimes have no other hope.»
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Some 62 percent of those surveyed said they did not want to make a decision now on donating organs; one - third of respondants said they don't want to deal with topics related to death; and another third said they are worried that if they agree to donate, and then become critically ill, doctors won't do everything they can to save them.
Chaplains help patients and family members manage their raw and often conflicting emotions and opinions around pulling plugs, saying goodbye, forgiving (or not), donating organs (or not), blaming each other or fighting over property before the patient even dies...
A Christian organ donor said churches can do more to encourage people to donate.
After a year of recovery, Hardison says he is ready to meet the family of his donor, David Rodebaugh, to thank them for their decision to donate his face, as well as other organs to other recipients.
In the case of the eight patients in the study, Collinge said that it's likely they acquired a-beta amyloid seeds from the hormone harvested from the deceased elderly who donated their organs for that purpose.
It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot.
Dr Tony Calland, chairman of the BMA's Medical Ethics Committee, said the BMA believed that moving to a system of presumed consent, where it is assumed that people are willing to donate their organs after death unless they opt out would play an important part in improving the organ donation system so that more lives can be saved.
Roopam Asthana, director and CEO, Liberty Videocon General Insurance, has said that this plan covers expenses incurred towards donor's screening and treatment for harvesting of the organ donated.