YOU MIGHT WANT TO RECONSIDER YOUR ORGAN DONOR STATUS

At any point in time now, there are over 100,000 people waiting for an organ transplant in the U.S. alone. Yet, there are only a fraction of that number of organs available.

In other words, the demand for organ donations is enormous. Doctors are under intense pressure to harvest organs to fulfill the needs of those on an organ transplant waiting list.

Many of you are of the opinion that being an organ donor is the noble thing to do. After all, you’ll be dead and the final act of donating your parts can save lives. Right?

You think that by being an organ donor, you will come to the rescue of the sick and dying. It gives your death meaning to believe you will be able to help your fellow man.

This is all well and good IF you commit to the process with full disclosure, knowing what they don’t tell you about donating your organs.

Let’s take a deep dive into what being an organ donor involves…

First of all, most organ donors assume that the harvesting of their organs will occur when they are 100% dead. Heart not beating, brain not functioning, totally checked out.

Not so. Harvesting begins while you are still alive.

I repeat.

Organ harvesting begins while you are still alive.

You see, organs die very quickly once the heart stops beating. Either the organs are harvested within minutes of the heart stopping, or else the heart must be restarted to continue the blood flow. Otherwise, precious seconds are lost and the organs are not able to be harvested.

Put another way, in order to harvest usable organs, the donor must be living.

You heard right.

The cold reality is, when patients are on the verge of dying, but not actually dead yet, they are simply “declared” dead while the heart is still beating. Then organs can be quickly removed, killing them for good and avoiding the risk of harvesting failure from loss of blood flow.

Can someone who has been declared brain dead still have feeling? You’d better hope not because anesthesia and pain meds affect the quality of the harvest, and therefore, are not used. So, paralyzing drugs are used instead.

What this means is, if you still have any wits left to know what is happening, or if you still can still feel pain, you cannot move while your chest is cut open and splayed for organ removal.

The resulting and truthful cause of death would be “death by heart removal,” although you will never see this on any death certificates.

There is a strong financial incentive to declare you “medically dead” long before you are actually lifeless. Which brings me to the topic of brain death…

When a patient is declared brain dead, the organs can be harvested while the heart is still beating. This results in successful harvesting.

But, in heart death, the clock is ticking and organs must be harvested within a few minutes of no heartbeat and blood flow or the organs are rendered useless for transplant.

Are you beginning to see the financial incentive to declaring a patient brain dead?

Back in the 1960’s, the medical industry invented a brand new definition of death so they could procure organs from living donors. They literally pulled “brain dead” out of thin air with no clinical studies to back it up. There was no research, no data, no scientific studies… They just made it up.

Brain dead means you are still alive. Your heart is still beating. This allows surgeons to inspect and remove organs from warm bodies with heartbeats.

Of course, this has raised profound ethical questions around the determination of death and respect for patient rights.

If a patient is resuscitated after cardiac arrest, even if the heart could not restart on its own, the person is not dead! Cutting off blood flow to the brain causes brain death, but this also smells of murder.

Doctors frequently misjudge and get brain dead wrong causing an incorrect diagnosis. Countless cases have been reported of patients waking up just before harvesting.

Prior to the Harvard Committee pulling the definition of brain dead out of thin air, harvesting organs from a living person was illegal under the “dead donor rule.” So they redefined what dead means. Enter brain dead, and the green light to begin organ harvesting while the patient is still alive.

Interestingly, every state determines brain death differently. Some states would say you are clinically dead while other states would say you are alive and thriving.

Lots and lots of legal disputes have resulted between medical institutions and families of patients who were harvested for their organs while still alive. What doctors would really like is to do away with the dead donor rule altogether and replace it with Death by Donation, thereby allowing euthanization for their organs.

But that is another blog.

The bottom line here, folks… Organ harvesting is a multi-billion dollar industry. There will always be wealthy people around the world in need of organs and body parts who are willing to pay top dollar.

The hospitals generate huge profits from the trade of transplant organs. U.S. Hospitals have been caught over and over again engaging in black market organ trafficking.

So, who makes all the money on these organ transplants…? The doctors, the hospitals, and the drug companies. Transplants are a hugely profitable industry, especially when you take into account that they get the organs FOR FREE.

A single donor with noble intentions can generate millions of dollars for the organs-for-profit industry. But, it doesn’t stop there. Pharma gets fat off the ongoing and very expensive organ transplant anti-rejection drugs.

There’s more. The organs that are transplanted into unsuspecting patients are often fatally damaged and full of infectious diseases. That’s because there are practically zero quality standards in the organ transplant industry.

If the organ still functions at any level, it is “good enough” to be slapped into a transplant patient, even though that organ might kill them. This is one of the biggest reasons why organ transplant patients often die so quickly after receiving a new organ.

Also, there are very few exceptions to being an organ donor. Age? No problem. The oldest donor in the U.S. was 95 years old. Cancer? No problem as long as it has not metastasized. HIV? No problem as long as there is not an active infection. Hepatitis? Diabetes? No problem being a donor.

In other words, new diseases are being introduced into the recipient’s body. Then their immune system is being undermined by toxic anti-rejection drugs.

Basically, the organ harvesting industry will use ANY organ they can harvest, even those riddled with disease. The sick, obese, and alcoholic drug addicts are the ones dying and most viable for harvesting.

Healthy people who take care of themselves are not the ones who die and supply this money making treadmill.

I used to be an organ donor until I learned the facts of this industry. Now, I realize it is motivation for a swift brain dead diagnosis so harvesting can begin before actually dead.

Sorry, I’ll take a pass.

Like I said earlier, IF you are aware of all the facts around being an organ donor and still opt in, my hat’s off to you.

The morale of this story…. Take care of your health and your organs as though they were the only ones you will ever have and avoid this organ harvesting treadmill and its highly questionable ethics altogether.