ACCORDING to Radio Lancashire organ donor cards are to be put into wage packets. Apparently the never adequate supply of donors has been dwindling.
Perhaps it has not occurred to the medical profession that more people are coming to regard organ transplants as morally indefensible and repugnant in the extreme and are therefore reluctant to lend themselves to this high-tech butchery.
Of course the medical profession promotes transplants because these make a nice little earner, paid for by long-suffering taxpayers, but some of the nastier and lesser known facts about transplants are these.
The organs must come from a living donor, who is, of course, killed when their vital organs are removed.
Organs taken from the dead are useless for transplanting.
Hardly any transplants are wholly successful because of the near impossibility of matching the tissue types of patients and donors.
Those readers who hold religious convictions might argue it is a latter-day form of cannibalism and such obstacles as tissue rejection have been divinely ordained expressly to prevent man playing God.
N G Charnley, Chesterfield Road, Blackpool.
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