[Vision2020] Legistlative update V from Rep. Trail - Feb 7-11

[Pat Kraut]

You have misread my comment because of a lack of knowledge. I shall now enlighten you...I am all for helmet laws. I also don't like people riding around in the back of pickups. If I had my way no one would get hurt in any manner that lead to brain death. However, people won't wear their helmets and they do ride around in the back of pickups and get brain dead no matter how we try to stop them. Now for the other part of the story. I have two sons who have totally failed kidneys so I am very aware of the agony of families who wait for 'parts'. Most of those who need liver transplants are children under the age of ten and they die before they get the transplant. Those waiting for kidneys must suffer the indignities of dialysis in a variety of ways that most of you couldn't watch without becoming ill. So, even though I am a Christian I want you to know that I never and I do mean NEVER pray that one of my sons get the transplant he needs no matter how sick he is because it means that I am asking God to take someone else's loved one to save mine. You cannot even come close to knowing or understanding how tough it is. I only pray that people will WEAR THEIR HELMETS, seatbelts and not ride in the back of pickups (I believe that my youngest son got his first transplant from a fifteen year old who was riding in the back of a pickup and fell out hitting her head on the curb. It was instant brain death. I won't even try to tell how I feel about this.). But people will do those things so I only ask that they sign their organ donor card and tell their families that they really mean it. And then yes we could use one tragedy to help someone else. I am aware it may sound ghoulish to you but it is only because you don't live where I live. Now, is all this logical? Probably not, it is probably pure emotion but maybe you will stop being so sure that you can read my 'conservative Christian' mind. And you can be very grateful you don't work in the ethics department of a hospital. Now, what color would you make this??
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: 'Pat Kraut' ; 'vision2020' 
  Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:19 PM
  Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Legistlative update V from Rep. Trail - Feb 7-11


  Ms. Kraut -

   

  You are obviously against motorcycle helmet laws.  As your posting states:

   

  "There is a reason than [that] transplant surgeons call them donorcycles. We could save lots of people if they would donate."

   

  You are suggesting that there will be more "donated body parts" if more and more people rode motorcycles without a helmet.  These donated body parts could then be used to save the lives of those patients in need of transplants.  

   

  Your logic (for lack of a better word) can be simplified to:

   

  "More lives will be saved if more people are killed on our highways."

   

  Spoken like a true conservative.  You go, girl.

   

  Tom Hansen

  Moscow, Idaho

   

  We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box. 


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  From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Pat Kraut
  Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:05 PM
  To: vision2020
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Legistlative update V from Rep. Trail - Feb 7-11

   

    All I ask is that those who ride without a helmut sign their organ donor cards. There is a reason than transplant surgeons call them donorcycles. We could save lots of people if they would donate. 
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