One-sided solicitation of organ donations
In the organ donor card, you can state: Yes, I authorize the removal of organs and tissue from my
body after my death has been medically confirmed.
According to surveys, however, around a third of the German population assumes that the term death refers to
cardiac death, with its accompanying symptoms such as death marks, rigor mortis and putrefaction processes.
However, only fresh organs can be transplanted.
Here is a short excerpt from Five reasons for the ban on organ donation at the end of life, published by the
ÄPOL association in the Swiss Medical Journal in 2019:
There are many signs of life in people with dead brains.
As long as they are ventilated and fed, they regulate body temperature, fight infections and heal wounds.
Brain-dead children grow and reach puberty, and pregnant brain-dead women can give
birth to healthy children by caesarean section.
The organ donor is therefore a person in the process of dying.
So he's still alive!
Official bodies such as the BZgA, the Federal Center for Health Education, on the other hand, already declare people to be dead,
if only essential parts of the brain are no longer functional - and the brain is only a small part of the whole person.
In their corresponding information materials, they present the supposedly positive aspects of organ and tissue
transplantation and its implementation in a one-sided manner.
They advertise by enabling donors to make a well-founded decision.
But how can a donor make a well-founded decision as long as he is unaware of the medical facts of brain death?
It seems that the one-sided promotion of organ donation is being used as a deliberate marketing strategy.