Family Perspective on Donating Organs
Family Perspective on Donating Organs
There are three people; a parent, a sick child in need of a kidney and a healthy child who is willing to donate a kidney (All three of them are in the same family).
The parent feels very worried about this problem. If the operation does not succeed then there would be a very high risk of both her children dying. If the operation is not done then one of her children will be healthy and then the other one will always have to go to the hospital to use the kidney dialysis machine to clear out all the un-wanted waste that the body cannot do without any healthy kidneys. However if the operation does succeed then both her children will be quite healthy and she would be able to save a lot of money on medical fees. The parent feels that taking the risk is better then leaving one of her children un-healthy. She feels that if she does not do it earlier then it may affect the sick child’s health and give the sick child many disadvantages when he grows up. One of the disadvantages would be very little travel to other countries. Because if the sick child goes to other country and has no kidney dialysis machine then he will die.
The sick child feels very different to all the other people. Because every week he has to go to the hospital for very long periods of time to use a kidney dialysis machine. The kidney dialysis machine helps him to extract waste from his body which his body cannot do without any healthy kidneys. He does this a couple of times a week. It wastes a lot of time and feels very un-comfortable for him. If he had a wish it would be to have healthy kidneys that worked.
The healthy child in the family feels very disturbed that his brother is in need for a kidney. He feels very guilty that he is healthy but his brother is not. He wonders why he was not the chosen one to be un-healthy and why his brother was. He always wonders how it would feel like to be his sick brother. By doing this is able to understand his brother’s feelings more. He feels that this is a very hard choice for him to make. His decision will either make him regret, feel guilty...