Each year, the Department of Motor Vehicles asks college students, faculty and staff, who drive if they want to be an organ donor.<\/p>\n
The answer should always be no, according to Bonnie Borel-Donohue, president of the Traditional Values Club at Sinclair Community College.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach life has value, dignity and is sacred. It is immoral to use people as though they are objects for organ donation. Somebody is not dead until they are truly dead, until there is no heart beat and no brain waves, until that point, the person is still living,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
On Nov. 10, in the Library loggia, from 12 to 1 p.m. neonatologist Dr. Paul Byrne will give a presentation at Sinclair Community College titled \u201cOrgan Donor Transplantation, an Informed Consent: Who decides, you or the government?\u201dThe event is open to the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all know the difference between a living person and a cadaver,\u201d Byrne said in a phone interview. \u201cPeople who have been labeled brain dead still have vital life because their heart is still pumping. Brain death is not true death.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the state of Ohio, the law recognizes brain death as a legal indicator of death.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe respirator is truly a ventilator; it moves air in only, it doesn\u2019t move the air out. The air out is always done by the body and the moving of the air out occurs only in the living person,\u201d Byrne said. \u201cIf someone is a cadaver or a corpse and is hooked to a ventilator, it will push the air in, but the air will never come out. The respirator will only work in the living.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Ohio state law, if you are an organ donor, circulatory and respiratory functions will be kept going by artificial life support, if you are presumed brain dead, to preserve your organs until they can be harvested for transplantation.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter true death, there are no organs that can be transplanted,\u201d Byrne said. \u201cEvery time an organ is transplanted it is a healthy organ, it comes from a living person and after the organ is taken the living person is either dead or weaker.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt some level, people have been known to be aware even if they are in a coma. It has been known for some to make a miraculous recovery,\u201d Borel-Donohue said. \u201cIt\u2019s unethical to be taking organs out of a living person, to take one person\u2019s life to save another.\u201d<\/p>\n
Byrne uses the analogy of slavery to explain how organ donor transplantation actually works. He said that one method of slavery was when the master didn\u2019t allow the subject to know the truth. He said the same goes for being an organ donor because the only information we are provided with is the education of allowing doctors to take our organ, but not knowing that we have to be alive for them to do so.<\/p>\n
Both Byrne and Borel-Donohue believe that the law has manipulated and twisted terms to make them sound as if a person is truly dead, words such as \u2018brain dead\u2019 or \u2018persistent vegetative state.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cMuch of the problem is a manipulation of words,\u201d Byrne said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to be a genius to know the difference between the living and a cadaver. A cadaver doesn\u2019t have a beating heart, and it doesn\u2019t have circulation and respiration and you say, \u2018well it is brain- dead,\u2019 then you say \u2018brain dead is not a cadaver?\u2019 and obviously it\u2019s not,\u201d Byrne said. \u201cSo you see the truth is often very simple. Don\u2019t allow yourself to be twisted and fooled. If the law fools you and twists you then the law is the master and the master is making slaves of you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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