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That bi+tch.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444238&in_page_id=1770

Don't you mean her brother?ermm

Originally posted by Black Dalek
That bi+tch.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444238&in_page_id=1770

her?

-FO!!

Originally posted by LethalFemme
Don't you mean her brother?ermm

What?

Originally posted by Black Dalek
What?

If you'd posted and changed it before my post which referenced the original thread you'd have got away with it.

-FO!!

Originally posted by Flame On!!
If you'd posted and changed it before my post which referenced the original thread you'd have got away with it.

-FO!!

*head explodes*. It's get on topic. Whats your thoughts?

Originally posted by Black Dalek
*head explodes*

http://www.eyeofhorus.org.uk/images/photo/09eccleston/01series/13-partingways/parting-dalek-destroyed.jpg

Oh yes!

-FO!!

YOU SHALL BE EXTERMINATED!!!

I'd like to believe there's a genuinely good reason for her decision shrug

i'm just gonna say it: i hate HER.

If you read the article and also the comments that other people have left it gives a good perspective on both sides, considering we're only provided with the story from the brother's point of view.

Originally posted by Syren
I'd like to believe there's a genuinely good reason for her decision shrug
it had better be a good one. i would do that for a stranger, and for sure my sister.

Originally posted by Syren
If you read the article and also the comments that other people have left it gives a good perspective on both sides, considering we're only provided with the story from the brother's point of view.

good point, but i still don't get why she doesn't want to do that. saving another person's life must feel fulfilling or good or something...

exactly. she should burn in hell.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
it had better be a good one. i would do that for a stranger, and for sure my sister.

Offered your bone marrow?

Originally posted by Bardock42
Offered your bone marrow?
B!!!! good to see you!!!

to your question, if i had the chance to save a stranger by offering my bone marrow, i'd like to think i would do it.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
B!!!! good to see you!!!

to your question, if i had the chance to save a stranger by offering my bone marrow, i'd like to think i would do it.

http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Join_the_Registry/index.html

i'll look into it. you have to pay 52 bucks to be a volunteer?

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
i'll look into it. you have to pay 52 bucks to be a volunteer? A small price to save a life. As people that happen to not be me would say with conviction.

i meant that if someone approached me and asked me to do it, i'd consider.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
i meant that if someone approached me and asked me to do it, i'd consider.

Alright, but I would see it as perfectly reasonable to refuse.

The article, on a more on topic note, is extremely biased.

what about the effects it has on the donor? any health risks?

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
what about the effects it has on the donor? any health risks?

That should not matter.

The article states though that it obviously has slight risks. Not particularly high ones though.

it wouldnt matter to me, not if the effects were not permanent. if i were to place myself in danger, i would reconsider.

Especially if I'd have to pay for giving myself health risks. $52 doesn't grow on trees.

good point. paying to be a volunteer doesnt make you a volunteer, it makes you......i dunno....a member?

A bone marrow donation is an invasive operation and that is never, ever something to be taken lightly.

Although this person isn't going to win charity awards any time soon, I'd hate to think we live in a society where people feel morally obliged to undergo such a potentially harmful procedure to save another, brother or otherwise, That's disturbing.

It's a good thing when it does happen, not something to be criticised when it does not.

i wouldnt feel MORALLY obligated to do it, but if i were presented with oppurtunity to save a fathers life, a guy with three or four kids, i'd definitely get with FJ, weigh the pros and cons, and together we'd make the decision.

Well a lot of the tone in here seems to be one of moral condemnation. That's completely backwards.

Donors should be praised, NOT non-donors criticised.

pretty good point. do you ever get tired of being a chronic know it all?

Originally posted by Black Dalek
That bi+tch.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444238&in_page_id=1770
What a *****. She should have gotten him 50% off at JCPenney's.

Originally posted by Black Dalek
That bi+tch.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444238&in_page_id=1770

If it were my sibling, I wouldn't do it.

Has anyone noticed that this article comes from a very unreliable source? It's The Daily Mail... It's probably either a crock of shit of miss-informed.

omg!

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
it had better be a good one. i would do that for a stranger, and for sure my sister.

Are you currently donating bone marrow for strangers, or siblings?

Err. I guess I'm late. Seems Bardock already asked. That link to donate was priceless.

Originally posted by meep-meep
Are you currently donating bone marrow for strangers, or siblings?
nope. whats that got to do with me considering to do it if i was asked to do so?

Originally posted by FeceMan
What a *****. She should have gotten him 50% off at JCPenney's.
Oh, come on. That's hilarious.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
nope. whats that got to do with me considering to do it if i was asked to do so?

Go to a random hospital walk into a room with a few patients that need it and ask if they would like some....

Anyways, this woman although definitely not very nice has the right to deny giving it. And probably a very good reason too, I just don't hope she doesn't feel really guilty after her brother dies and gets kicked out of the family for not helping him.

i just think that it's selfish of her. it's her brother, for god's sake. he is dying. she can save him.

I cant even believe this. Seriously, this is horrible. What a horrible person. No matter how invasive a procedure is, if you have a chance to save someone else's life and you know it, it is completely despicable to not save that life. It makes it worse that its her brother, and yet she STILL refuses to do it. I honestly don't get it. What kind of a person would do this?

Originally posted by ((The_Anomaly))
I cant even believe this. Seriously, this is horrible. What a horrible person. No matter how invasive a procedure is, if you have a chance to save someone else's life and you know it, it is completely despicable to not save that life. It makes it worse that its her brother, and yet she STILL refuses to do it. I honestly don't get it. What kind of a person would do this? Me? Like Ush said, you should praise donors, not criticize non-donors.

Originally posted by ((The_Anomaly))
I cant even believe this. Seriously, this is horrible. What a horrible person. No matter how invasive a procedure is, if you have a chance to save someone else's life and you know it, it is completely despicable to not save that life. It makes it worse that its her brother, and yet she STILL refuses to do it. I honestly don't get it. What kind of a person would do this?

Umm, I'd say most people wouldn't do something like that.

They have a choice to do it if they want to. They're not required to, and it's not something that should ever BE required, in my opinion. If they want to donate marrow/blood/organs, then yes, that's a good thing. But if they don't, for whatever reason, fine. It's their decision and they're not obliged to do such a thing.

If your brother/sister was in the same position, you wouldnt help them? (That's assuming your very close to your brother/sister)

Originally posted by Black Dalek
That bi+tch.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444238&in_page_id=1770



maybe her brother is an aszhole

i mean bone marrow is pretty rare

To me, it's not even about family.

If you knew that you were the perfect match to someone's transplant, why the hell would you refuse them, knowing they would DIE because of it? No one's God, no one has the right to ordain people's deaths if they know that they can do something about it. It's not as if she doesn't have the money, they tell us that she lives in an upscale home.

But then I suppose I'm a little biased - I have a kidney transplant from my dad, and my sister's next on the list for when this one gets used up, and it will.

I can't even imagine what this man must be feeling.

Originally posted by siriuswriter
To me, it's not even about family.

If you knew that you were the perfect match to someone's transplant, why the hell would you refuse them, knowing they would DIE because of it? No one's God, no one has the right to ordain people's deaths if they know that they can do something about it. It's not as if she doesn't have the money, they tell us that she lives in an upscale home.

But then I suppose I'm a little biased - I have a kidney transplant from my dad, and my sister's next on the list for when this one gets used up, and it will.

I can't even imagine what this man must be feeling.


damn, i officially feel like shit now

Originally posted by siriuswriter
To me, it's not even about family.

If you knew that you were the perfect match to someone's transplant, why the hell would you refuse them, knowing they would DIE because of it? No one's God, no one has the right to ordain people's deaths if they know that they can do something about it. It's not as if she doesn't have the money, they tell us that she lives in an upscale home.

But then I suppose I'm a little biased - I have a kidney transplant from my dad, and my sister's next on the list for when this one gets used up, and it will.

I can't even imagine what this man must be feeling.
i dont know you at all, but your dad and sister sound like real stand up people. good for you for having a close knit family.

Originally posted by Black Dalek
What?

It originally was titled "Sister Refuses to Save His Brother."

Originally posted by Smasandian
If your brother/sister was in the same position, you wouldnt help them? (That's assuming your very close to your brother/sister)
YES. me and my sister are kind of on the outs, but if she needed me in this capacity, i would be there for her in a heartbeat.

Well, thier must be a good reason for this sister not to do it when the operation is bad, but not really that bad.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
damn, i officially feel like shit now

Um... that wasn't my intention. But. Hurrah?

Originally posted by Smasandian
Well, thier must be a good reason for this sister not to do it when the operation is bad, but not really that bad.
i'd love to hear her side.

seconded. great Jedi think like.

Originally posted by JaehSkywalker
IMO, it is. A few days of sickness and whatever else versus saving someone else's life, well, i'd choose the second option.

It makes me sad when people miss very clear sarcasm.

I'm gonna kill my sister when I come home. Women are so selfish and the greedy scum of the earth.

sometimes.....

I can say I'd help. Family or not I'd do it, even if my ties with that person weren't strong ones, I'd be in a moral limbo and it would eat away at me knowing I could have helped by I decided not to.

Originally posted by Syren
If you read the article and also the comments that other people have left it gives a good perspective on both sides, considering we're only provided with the story from the brother's point of view.

It did indeed. It was a very one sided, pity seeking article.

But I agree, she might have had a good reason for refusing, its simply not stated.

I really don't believe that is true, sounds like a twist in the story to me!

Chances are she has a very good reason for not donating her bone marrow, and quite frankly the publication of the article in this way is disgusting.

i agree that it doesnt really delve into her side.