This piece is satire, but highlights the absurdity of mandating medical interventions.
The Problem
Over 80,000 people die from kidney failure each year. Kidney disease is America’s ninth leading cause of death.
1 out of 10 adults has some form of kidney damage
In the U.S., an estimated 26 million people -- about 13 percent of the population -- now have chronic kidney disease
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) predicts that the number of kidney failure patients in the U.S. will double in the next ten years.
Each year, about 60,000 people in the U.S. start treatment for kidney failure
People with chronic kidney disease are 10 times more likely than healthy individuals to die of heart attacks and strokes
The Solution- Kidney Transplant
Long-term survival is markedly improved among patients who receive a donor kidney compared with patients who dialyze and remain on the waiting list for a kidney
In the New England Journal study, the mortality rates were analyzed among over 200,000 patients who underwent dialysis for end-stage renal disease. Of these, some 23,000 actually received a kidney. The projected years of life remaining were 10 for patients who remained on the waiting list and 20 for those who received a transplant (New England Journal of Medicine)
In the United States, more than 400,000 people are on long-term dialysis and more than 200,000 have a functioning transplanted kidney
People undergoing a kidney transplant these days have a better than nine-in-10 chance of surviving, and a better than eight-in-10 chance their body will not reject the new organ
There are people still alive who have had their new kidneys for more than 40 years.
One year after surgery, 97.6 percent of kidneys transplanted from living donors were still functioning well
The Donor
The mortality for the operation for the donor is estimated to be 0.03%, or one in 3,000 chance of dying from the surgery
The life expectancy of living donors is the same or better as if they had not donated. The remaining single kidney is able to meet the body’s needs very well. It actually enlarges to do the work formerly shared by both kidneys
If the donor is a woman who wishes to have children in the future, studies have shown that kidney donation does not affect completion of a safe pregnancy
Still a Problem
Each year, 8 percent of the patients on the national list die waiting for a kidney
Every day over 10 people die while waiting for a vital organ transplant
Over 65,000 patients are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. Sadly, only 15,000 will get a new kidney this year. Each month, approximately 2,000 more names are added to the list
One can wait three years (or more) to receive a cadaveric kidney.
Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 3,886 kidney patients died in 2004 while waiting for life-saving transplants.
Halachic concerns: one is not obligated to donate kidney for another person
(oh, you mean that I don’t need to vaccinate to protect others, ok, how about for yourself…read on)
Self Donor - The Final Solution
Blood and tissue matching tests are not needed when it is own kidney
No problem with rejection
No need to be on powerful immune suppressant drugs
Would not need to go through plasmapheresis prior to receiving kidney transplant
Since the donation is to one’s self, one is obligated according to halacha to take precautions to protect his own life
Risk of surgery is 0.03% (one in 3,000 cf. chance of getting hit by lightning one in 10,000) while 13% of adults develop renal damage
Would any Rov condone this?
Didn’t think so.
Vaccines are no different.
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