Comments on: On Donating Organs https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/ The Events in Human Resources and Employee Relations space, and in My World through my eyes. Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:15:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Radgovin https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/#comment-3072 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:12:45 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=2062#comment-3072 There is something to be said about human vanity. Apparently, in ancient Rome, a trend had started of young nubile females wantonly committing suicide. The elders were worried at the alarming reduction in marriageable woman numbers. They made a proclamation that the body of females who committed suicide would be paraded naked through the streets of Rome.

Suffice to say that the suicides stopped and Rome was happy.

I am not too sure that I would like to donate my organs. The thought of death makes me queasy. And it is like they say, everyone wants to go to Heaven – yet no one wants to die! 🙂

I’ve written some articles on this. You can read them here:

http://www.govindraj.co.cc/blog/?p=243

Regards,

Govindraj Umarji

]]> By: Vivek Patwardhan https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/#comment-3085 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:45:09 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=2062#comment-3085 Dear Kate,
Thanks for your comments. I agree with you.
As reagards donating bone marrow and kidney I must tell you that I hold you in deep respect. Even if it is a difficult decision to say No, it does not make the sacrifice any less important or valuable.
My respect for you was always high but now it is at such level that i would come over and meet and salute you in person if ever I visit UK.
Thanks,
Vivek

]]> By: Kate https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/#comment-3086 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:16:12 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=2062#comment-3086 As I have already blogged I was my sister’s bone marrow donor, when she had Leukemia and you know I was pleased to be able to do that for her . At the moment we are waiting for the results of tests in respect of a kidney which she seems now to need. I know that she would do the same for me should the need have arisen.. I’ve already said about me being a coward about needles so I would be terrified if I was in her place and had to face dialysis.

I feel I ‘must’ volunteer mine -coward that I am,I still couldn’t live with myself, knowing I could have helped and didn’t do so. I’m a great believer in organ donorship as I reason that God has given the knowledge to the medical profession to be able to save lives so who am I to question it.

So, although I understand your feelings in relation to your father and mother’s feelings. I’m sure if it came to it and one of your family could be saved by such and operation it would be a very difficult decision to say no to a donor who could help.

Blessings Kate x.

]]> By: HAREKRISHNAJI https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/#comment-3092 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:07:14 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=2062#comment-3092 i have made declaration for donating eyes after my death. After reading this now I am seriously considering donating my body

]]> By: Vivek Patwardhan https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/#comment-3098 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:43:52 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=2062#comment-3098 Thanks Lilly’s Life, Ugich Lonitari, NS Iyer, Kavi and Ganesh.
Vivek

]]> By: Ganesh https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/#comment-3104 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:52:56 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=2062#comment-3104 Dear Sir,

Nice thought provoking post. Only if the relatives of the dead person were so magnanimous as your family instead of wanting to preserve and then cremate the body.

Nice story about Hitendran. Inspires one to consider very seriously about organ donation.

]]> By: nsiyer https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/#comment-3105 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:27:28 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=2062#comment-3105 Nice one, Sir. It requires strength of character and is an act worthy of emulation.Something like ‘you give even when you go, and yet remain to stay’. Kudos to your dad and mom.

]]> By: Kavi https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/#comment-3106 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:01:23 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=2062#comment-3106 I think this is a thought provoking post that makes one think about what one does. While living and dying !!

I read somewhere that organ donation would help you ‘live’ even after death…!

But the pain it involves and the personal courage and conviction it takes to do such a thing is well articulated here…

It inspires me to seek out more

Thanks for sharing sir !

]]> By: ugich konitari https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/#comment-3107 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:46:21 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=2062#comment-3107 My father was a great proponent of eye donation after death, and I remember that he used to talk to people about it and they used to fill forms.

We donated my mother’s eyes in 2000, and my fathers in 2006, when they respectively passed away. I have always felt that children do what they think their parents would have liked them to do, and all this forms and stuff is superfluous. We learnt about these things by observing the various activities that our parents participated in, and the value, that you became immeasurably richer after giving , was learnt throughout life.

Thank you for posting about Hitendran and your personal experience relating to your late father.

]]> By: Lilly's Life https://vivekvsp.com/2009/01/on-donating-organs/#comment-3108 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:45:46 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=2062#comment-3108 Congratulations on your award!!

Also this was a truly thought provoking post. I have signed a form too. And I can only imagine what it would have been like with your father. At least your mother was so vey strong to carry out his wishes. More of us need to be thinking about being donors because there are so many lives that can benefit. What a wonderful gift. And how brave and generous Hitendrans parents are. Great story.

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