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To think donating someone's organs without their consent is a serious ethical issue..

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BabyX · 20/01/2015 13:20

I'm referring to the news today that a newborn baby's organs have been donated after doctors diagnosed her, at birth, as brain-dead. Her parents have been able to give the chance of life to others, I see that. The recipients and their families must be incredibly relieved and grateful. Hopefully that will comfort the parents of the baby, who is now, of course, dead. Organs can only be taken while the donor is still alive.

But AIBU to think you cannot just decide to give away the organs of another human being without their consent? Is it our choice to make?

I'm not sure if I am unreasonable to think this or not. I may just be clouded by sadness at the death of this poor baby who never got a chance at life. It's heartbreaking. Had my child not survived her birth, the thought of carving her up for parts is horrifying.

I do not mean to be disrespectful, I'm just struggling to concur with the general reaction that this is a wonderful "selfless" act.

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KateSMumsnet · 20/01/2015 15:36

Hullo everyone,

Thanks for all your reports about this thread. We understand that many of you feel the OP was insensitively phrased, and we can see that BabyX has apologised for this, and regrets their choice of words.

It's really moving to read the personal experience of organ donation that people have posted - thank you for sharing your stories Flowers, we hope this thread hasn't been too upsetting for you.

We think there's more merit in leaving this thread as it is, and allowing a discussion about organ donation, than removing it and getting rid of the posts and stories people have taken time to share. We would ask that everyone please bear in mind this is a tremendously sensitive topic, and that compassion and understanding are always worthy additions to a discussion.

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KateSMumsnet · 20/01/2015 16:09

@Ohfourfoxache

Hi Kate

Completely agree that leaving the thread is beneficial and creates debate, but do you think you might be able to edit the op? I know Baby has apologised for her turn of phrase and I'm absolutely sure that no harm was meant whatsoever, but having been in that position reading it back does sting a bit. However you might well feel that, having read it once, I shouldn't read it again - which I wholeheartedly accept! Grin

X

Hullo fourfoxache - we can totally see what you mean, and Baby did ask if we could edit it out of the OP. We're not trying to be obstinate, or cause any more upset (truly, it's the last thing we want), but since the phrase has been repeated quite a bit, and it's been made reference to - if we removed it, the whole thread wouldn't make any sense, you'd get people asking what is was in the OP that upset everyone and it would probably have the opposite effect that we wanted. If possible, we think it'd be more beneficial to everyone involved if the thread could move on to discuss organ donation in a more positive/general way.

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KateSMumsnet · 20/01/2015 17:39

@Ohfourfoxache

Thanks for considering Kate - completely understand x

Might step away until after tomorrow - feeling a bit fragile about it all this week Sad

So sorry to hear that. Plenty of Brew and Cake in reserve for anyone else having a tough one Flowers

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