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What if the 65 year old is a grandmother who is responsible for taking care of her dead daughter's three small children and without her, they will not have a stable home and someone to love them? Organ/blood/tissue donation is the final frontier of true selflessness. You don't know who you might be helping and that's the beauty of it.
What if that 9-year-old's organs are failing because of a fatal disease and a new organ will only prolong her life a few months? I know a 14-year-old who had a heart/lung/liver transplant. It was successful, but because the disease that destroyed his own organs is still present there's no way to know how long the transplanted organs will last. Does that not mean that he or his family is any less happy to have him for a little longer, even if that time is unspecified? Of course not. Should those organs have been given to someone who may otherwise be healthy? Who's right is that to say? Would you tell him that? His parents?
There's no selectivity here. It's all or nothing. Plus, although I respect your opinion, it is not our right to choose who gets what. That is based upon need, age, compatibility, availability and success rates determined by knowledgeable physicians.
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