(A Movie)
CART MASTER:Bring out your dead!
CUSTOMER:
Here’s one.
CART MASTER:
Ninepence.
DEAD PERSON:
I’m not dead!
CART MASTER:
What?
CUSTOMER:
Nothing. Here’s your ninepence.
DEAD PERSON:
I’m not dead!
CART MASTER:
‘Ere. He says he’s not dead!
CUSTOMER:
Yes, he is.
DEAD PERSON:
I’m not!
CART MASTER:
He isn’t?
CUSTOMER:
Well, he will be soon. He’s very ill.
DEAD PERSON:
I’m getting better!
CUSTOMER:
No, you’re not. You’ll be stone dead in a moment.
CART MASTER:
Oh, I can’t take him like that. It’s against regulations.
DEAD PERSON:
I don’t want to go on the cart!
CUSTOMER:
Oh, don’t be such a baby.
CART MASTER:
I can’t take him.
DEAD PERSON:
I feel fine!
CUSTOMER:
Well, do us a favour.
CART MASTER:
I can’t.
CUSTOMER:
Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won’t be long.
CART MASTER:
No, I’ve got to go to the Robinsons’. They’ve lost nine today.
CUSTOMER:
Well, when’s your next round?
CART MASTER:
Thursday.
DEAD PERSON:
I think I’ll go for a walk.
CUSTOMER:
You’re not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn’t there something you can do?
DEAD PERSON: [singing]
I feel happy. I feel happy.
[whop]
CUSTOMER:
Ah, thanks very much
(Not A Movie)
Doctor Says about “Brain Dead” Man Saved from Organ Harvesting – “Brain Death is Never Really Death”
Expert says, “Brain death was concocted, it was made up in order to get organs. It was never based on science.”By John Jalsevac
OKLAHOMA, March 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 21-year-old Zack Dunlap, a man who was diagnosed as “brain dead” and who was mere minutes away from having his organs harvested, now says, four months after the accident that brought him to the brink of death, that he feels “pretty good.” Dunlap’s story was told in an NBC piece aired earlier this week, in which the young man himself was interviewed.
While Zack’s case is being touted in the media as a “miracle”, a neonatologist and expert on brain-death has told LifeSiteNews.com that Zack’s case, while remarkable in a sense, is not as rare as the mainstream media’s reporting makes it seem.
“The young man was never dead,” said Dr. Paul Byrne, a former president of the Catholic Medical Association who began writing about brain death in 1977. What makes Dunlap’s case unusual, though not unheard of, says Byrne, is that Zack was lucky enough to be found out to be alive before his vital organs were removed.
“While the story is put out as something that’s miraculous,” he told LifeSiteNews, “I don’t want to take anything away from God, but it’s not supernatural what occurred. If there is anything miraculous about it, it is that they didn’t get his organs before someone was able to notice some sort of other response. He was always living – his heart was always beating, there was always blood pressure, he was always very much alive.”
March 28, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Based on what I’ve read of the matter, I think Dr. Bryne got it right. This guy was never brain dead. Brain dead IS dead. If you wake up from brain death, you weren’t dead in the first place, barring divine intervention.
What’s scary here is that all of these really smart doctors so extremely misdiagnosed this guy’s condition. Why? What criteria did they use to determine brain death? Obviously, it wasn’t adequate! What motives, sympathetic or sinister, did they have for using those criteria, or for skipping steps in determining the diagnosis?
This is a gloriously happy ending for Mr. Dunlap and his family. But it doesn’t need to stop here. A full investigation needs to be pursued to get to the bottom of what went on here. The criteria for diagnosing brain death at this hospital needs to be re-examined, and this case investigated to see if ALL of the doctors used ALL of the criteria. Doctors are human, and they make mistakes. But, if the criteria for diagnosing brain death is consistent, complete, and followed, this shouldn’t happen.
On a side note: this is a good reminder to always wear a helmet when riding an ATM, motorcycle, bike or any open vehicle.
Bob Hunt
Knoxville, TN
March 28, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Why I never signed the organ donation part of my driver’s license….
March 28, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I signed mine. OK. Now I’m officially worried.
March 29, 2008 at 9:53 pm
I think it was another Monty Python skit wherein the poor sap had signed the organ donation card, and a guy with a chainsaw comes by to get his kidney!! I USED to think that was a funny skit..not so sure anymore tho’