The body is a machine after all

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Do the needful. If organ donation helps someone. What's the problem?

Plastic lenses in the eyes. Prosthetic legs, arms. Artificial teeth, crowns, bridges. Knee replacements. The body is a machine after all.

I'm old. When I was in secondary school in the US a teacher gave us the assignment to prepare a debate. One side pro computers the other side against computers. Computers were a new thing. Not the sleek laptops, notebooks, tablets we have now, but big clunky things. And not personal computers, not yet. Only just starting to be used in industry. But the issues were starting to appear. Were they a good thing or a bad thing? Would they be misused for destruction or would they be helpful?

We all see how that has played out. The benefits are tremendous. Especially for communication. It is almost like the internet is a gross form of a subtle mystical potency. Cyber space.

The same questions now arise about organ transplants. Will it open the door for misuse and abuse or will it be beneficial? The science itself is neither. It is simply how it is used.

There is always an element of fear hovering over just about everything new. The story of Frankenstein haunts the issue of organ donation. Written in the late 1800's by Mary Shelley the novel has had tremendous influence in the field of horror. A doctor tries to put together a living being from the body parts of other living beings. He is successful. But the creature has no place in any society. Not animal or human and becomes a threat to others.

Is it realistic to compare this to organ donation? No. The person receiving the organ, whatever it is, kidney, heart, etc. already exists. He is receiving a body part to replace one that is either missing or not working properly.

Frankenstein called into being a whole new creature.