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Oct 3, 2010
To Donate Or Not To Donate..
Toibe Brisal is a 60 year old 7 year Cystic Fibrosis patient. Last week, after a period of serious deterioration in her situation, she was the recipient of a new lung, and her life was saved upon transplant.
During recovery Brisal interviewed with Ynet about the transplant.
Some of what Brisal said in the interview, when asked if she has or would sign an "ADI donor card" to be a potential future organ donor: Until I needed the lung transplant, I didn't even know this organization existed..but I haven't signed on the donor card I I don't think we will sign...In general our rabbonim do not permit organ donation, unless it is the organ of a gentile which is allowed. In my specific case I was allowed to receive the organ because of the danger my life was in...It is difficult for me to answer whether one should or should not donate organs, as it is a halachic question. It does not seem to me that we will sign on ADI cards.
While it seems strange that someone who goes through this - the trauma, the sickness, the deterioration, the kindness of a donor, the transplant - would not immediately want to bestow the same kindness, if possible, and save someone else's life in the same way, that is really a personal decision. I can respect that. Even though some rabbonim support signing on the ADI card as a donor, if this person's rabbi says it cannot be done, I can respect her choosing to act in accordance.
She should probably just keep her mouth shut though and not be so direct in rejecting being a future donor. She comes off as sounding hypocritical and selfish.
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I love your blog.
ReplyDeleteThe ADI card has an option (tick the box) for saying that your family's rabbi has a veto over any decision to transplant your organs.
ReplyDeleteI (and my rabbi) don't see any halachik problem with that. Do you?
Just donate to Kupat ha'ir and the problem will solved!
ReplyDeleteI thought when we gave to the last campaign all of Ramat Bet Shemesh was inscribed for a good year - doesn't that mean we don't have to donate until 5772?
ReplyDeleteThere is a problem with this article. CF is a very serious genetic disease,which kills a vast majority of its sufferers by their late twenties. A few few sufferers live into their thirties, but not beyond. No one has survived until their sixties.
ReplyDeletethe ynet article says "lung disease fibrosis" - I assumed it meant cystic fibrosis. Could it be that there are other types?
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Seems that there's something called Lung Fibrosis, which is not the same thing as cystic fibrosis and is more likely what the article was referring to.
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Rafi...you have to make this a separate posting!
make what into a post? The comment about Lemaan Achai? I post all the time for LA.. with all the recent posts before the holidays, I am sure people can use a break..
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