Transplant Tales: to China and back

Monday, April 17, 2006

Well, we were expecting criticism after reading this article. Regardless of the reason behind a prisoners sentence. You an I have no right an are in no position to know an or judge China's judicial system. Tiananmen Square is a nasty scar China will have to live with for a long time to come. However, the true reason for telling our story, is to begin a movement in modifying our current donor set up and UNO's transplant waiting lists. The waiting lists here in the states are not designed for an individual with cancer.
Besides, after researching info on China, while being in China. I am told, the number one crime punishable by death and the most common crime committed is, Drug Smuggling. Which occurs mainly along the border in the south along Vietnam, Laos, and Burma.
Remember you should only believe half of what you read in the media. Yes, they harvest organs from executed prisoners. No, they don't just go out and shoot a prisoner because a Westerner, a Brit, an Israeli, a Malaysian, or anyone else for that fact, shows up with the need for a liver, kidney, lung or heart. The prisoners do in fact have to give their consent to donate. So stealing is a poor choice of words.
The media has chosen to spin off the executed prisoner bit from our story. Please don't allow it to redirected you away from our main goal in sharing it.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good luck to you my friend. I'm a 52 year old living donor xplant via UCSF in 2005. Doing very well after 14 months. UCSF xplant team incredible. Liten to them. LIFE is good.

4/17/2006 8:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I do believe that life is precious, everyone's life is in fact.

However, there has been much news reported lately of harvesting organs from dissidents and without their consent. For the past 6 years, the number of organ transplants have increased dramatically in China, coinciding with the persecution of Falun Gong, yet the number of executions are not proportionate to the statistics of transplant operations. It is believed that this group being persecuted are the source of these live organ transplants.

The CCP disregards human life and has a history of slaughtering the Chinese people and lies to coverup the truth. To encourage others to go to China for an operation, would be providing funds for the CCP to continue this persecution. The CCP would never voluntarily admit the truth.

4/17/2006 11:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Teresa claim regarding harvesting organs from dissidents has no proof. We cannot just make our judgement base on what other people said. We need facts. Good luck to you and wish you fully recover.

4/18/2006 1:41 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good luck to you and wish you fully cover. One of my friend gave 60% percent of his liver to his ill brother. The operation happened at Stanford Hosipital, CA. He used to say that this is his second chance to do goods to others.

4/18/2006 7:34 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eric,

I'm glad your life has been extended. I hope you cherish every moment of it from now on.

However, several of your claims seem either misguided or distortions of the truth. Since July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party has relentlessly carried out a nationwide persecution of practitioners of Falun Gong, a peaceful spiritual discipline which cultivates truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. When the persecution began, Falun Gong had over 100 million practitioners in mainland China alone. Since the persecution began, thousands of kind and peaceful people--ranging from infants to the elderly--have been subjected to wrongful detention in police stations, labor camps, death camps, and mental hospitals where unspeakable and horrific acts of brutality, torture, rape, abortion, and murder have been routinely committed against them. (For several true accounts of the persecution, please visit http://www.clearwisdom.net.)

Because in the eyes of the CCP, Falun Gong practitioners have no rights--legal, human or otherwise--the murder of any Falun Gong practitioner may be officially reported as a suicide or treated with callous indifference. With millions of declared Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China who refuse to succumb to the persecution despite the risk to their lives, the CCP has had a plentiful supply of organs and body parts to meet the demand of thousands of desperate people awaiting organ transplantation from around the world. During this persecution statistics from organ transplant institutions in mainland China have shown an alarming increase in the number of organ transplants in mainland China. Is this merely a coincidence? What led to this increase in the supply of organs? Since the CCP has a long, well-documented history of widespread slaughter, brutality, and distorting the truth, claims by representatives of the government and organ transplant centers in mainland China to have obtained these organs lawfully and with the full consent of the donors are anywhere from highly questionable to false. (For further information on the history of the CCP, please refer to the Nine Commentaries at http://ninecommentaries.com/ or http://www.fgmtv.net/index.html). In light of the overwhelming evidence, for any rational, knowledgeable person to knowingly encourage others to go to China for an organ transplant would be to approve of and support this persecution. At the least, such a person would be answerable to not only to his own conscience.

Best Wishes,
Sharif Roach

4/18/2006 3:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good luck! Eric

Hope every thing goes smoothly.

I see no hard evidence supporting Sharif Roach's claim. all the info he/she provided is from Falun Gong's own sources. Most likely is their propaganda.

Falun gong's claims of over 100 million followers, as I know is definitely a lie. 100m is almost 9 percent of China's total population. I was originally from China. None of over hundreds of my family members or friends practice falun gong. this makes one hard to believe their claims.

even though the organ may come from a prisoner, I think it is OK to go and do such a transplant as long as proper regulations are enforced.

If we can save a life through a transplant , why not? To judge whether the organ is obtained legally is the business of the regulation body, not the patients.

4/19/2006 7:59 PM  

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