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Guess its not worth discussing this with you then. I thank God that many families know that donating organs and body parts saves many lives.

Someday you might realize that God has a lot to do with many things. Hopefully someday you will figure this out. I did a long time ago.

I guess I did too. What was his point?

I laughed and I am religious. The irony of the situation is quite comical and one of the sticking points of for me being totally faithful.

It seems whenever something good happens its instantly because of God and whenever something bad happens its Satan's fault. i.e. missionaries of the church are "led to" a interested person at the same time a long time member of the church is hit by a car on their bicycle and killed. Why wasn't the long time member "led" away from the situation where they were killed? That eats a hole in me.

That's how it goes...butterfly...

I'm directly responsible for the death of Vincent Price, by the way. While at work one night, we were talking about Price and I asked "Is that guy dead YET? He's not still alive, is he?"

Within two days, he was dead.:(

Go read the "Is there a god?" thread...

Like I said, some families do this and some don't. I am also glad that some do, but I don't think god is responsible.

Better call Shirley McClaine. You may be clairvoyant. :D

I fail to understand why you feel that people getting together to pray or talk about a difficult situation, whether in church or anywhere else, gives you cause to help them "notice" the consequences of their actions.

What? Since they believe something they did, that you clearly do not believe in, came out well your response was to rain on their parade? Regardless of whether it was organ donation or simply "God please help me get thru this day" your actions are despicable in my opinion.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Hop Sing was cooking up a fresh beef stew and brown bread meal for the hungry cowpokes.

Now THAT'S funny!

Chris,
The transplant doctor, like the doctor in LeRoux' post, made a joke that motor cycle riders make the best donors. After the consultation, the family was driving on the highway also joking and sizing up nearby motorcycle riders. So their humor is intact. Also, it was an unrelated person who started the prayer e-mail.

That's just mean. Just for that, you can't have my kidneys.

Jane sounds a lot like my mother; she would take the credit in a heart beat.......

Which is why we should have plenty of practice now so it won't seem out of place :D

We flew a heart transplant mission years ago. My wife and the chief of the hospital were the two surgeons on the flight.

Halfway back to home the head doctor came up to the cockpit and talked with us for a while. He is a sports car nut, with a 356, Bentley Continental and several Jaguars, so we were good friends. He asked what we were doing after the flight and we both said that we were free. He asked if we wanted to see a transplant. Of course both of us said yes.

We landed the plane and got it buttoned up in record time and hopped on the ambulance for the trip to the hospital. Got washed and dressed for the operation. Miles was on one side and I was at the gents head, both of us right next to the doctors.

Was a real trip to see my wife diving in the gents chest going to work and all that happens during a transplant. About halfway through the operation Miles, my copilot asks "where do you get most of your organs?" The doctor replied "the vast majority of them are motorcycle riders"... Miles went white under the mask and the doc saw it and asked if he was ok. Miles calmly mentioned that both he and the captain rode our motorcycles to the airport that night to fly them on the mission.

The doctor did not miss a beat a beat and said "we will be seeing you two someday then!"

He was correct in that many motorcycle riders have an accident and injure their head but the heart keeps beating, allowing them to be used in transplants. As long as there is no trama to the organs, or they do not smoke or poor health and most of the organs are used.

I believe in God but I found this very funny...

I somehow think that God does not interfere with our actions, he does not cause death and he does not save lives...

You comment Neil was mean... but it probably brought her back to reality....

Joe I like your approach to defend the lady.... God does not cause death, but inspired the organ donor's decision...I am not so sure I buy that...There are a lot of organ donors that are not religious and vice versa...

My wife read this over my shoulder last night... she saw the "catchy" title and was intrigued

FWIW, she is the kindest and least cynical person I know. She laughed, and never serioused.

She even joked about it again this morning, said she hopes no-one is praying for organs while she drives into work.

Real mean spirit comment.
If your religion or not, you obviously wanted to hurt someone with your comments.

People dying or struggling to live is not a joking matter. I hope you receive the same comments if you were in the same situation. Oh yeah, $hit does come around...:)

My point is not whether or not it was appropriate to joke about transplants, It was that you felt that since they "believed" their prayer circles did something that you should show the the negative side of things...

..and the "punch in the mouth" comment was over-the top on my part, I was irritated, hence it's removal

Yeah, taken OUT of context it was funny... ..but your justification was not most decidedly condescending and negative, I can't stand that stuff.

Lighten up Francis

I hope to god (pun intended) that people have a good hearty laugh as they pull my organs out of my lifeless corpse. Something along the lines of "...Can we 'ave your liver then...?"

I ain't using them anymore, somone may as well benefit from 'em. Have a laugh and a liver.

Folks take too much crap too seriously.

BTW Joe, I had a buddy in school was doing his internship in the ER. He was the first person I heard refer to bikes as "donor-cycles".