USA. Sick Sla asks to donate vital organs before the disease kills
A man suffering from Alzheimer's Lou Gehrig asked to die by donating their organs, rather than wait for it to kill the terrible neurodegenerative disease. Garry
Phebus, 61, the fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis since 2008. In an interview with CNN said that the diagnosis is a death sentence, with no loopholes, no appeal, and who wants to donate his organs pretend it is able to do so.
"If someone is amputated legs or wife leaves him and commits suicide, is another story. He still has a life ahead of him. But I do not," he said. And for people awaiting a transplant, "There is nothing more extraordinary to receive an organ so that a family can watch his family grow up. "
Lou Gehrig's disease attacks the nervous system in the brain and spinal cord, affecting the voluntary control of muscles. In its later stages, the disease can leave patients paralyzed but fully conscious and alert.
Phebus has admitted that his decision "is not for everyone," but said his family supports him.'s daughter Kerri Wilkinson said: "We said, OK, well, we should not do that right now, but in the meantime try to learn more about this opportunity. "But when the illness of his father" gets to the point where he lost his pride or he is humiliated by the way he is forced to suffer ... we will have no problem with this decision. " The offer
Phebus "is admirable, and he goes all our sympathy," said Leigh Vinocur, a specialist in emergency medicine at the University of Maryland. "But 10 percent of people can 'live 20 years with this disease." Vinocur
Phebus consider asking for assisted suicide, a practice legal in only three U.S. states-Oregon, Washington and Montana. And in those states, patients seeking to end their lives are generally in the last stages of terminal illness.
"Pick bodies in patients, for example, are brain dead or are in the terminal phase," he said. Most doctors would have trouble "to do what he asks Phebus, because "at this time, it is quite healthy."
"I can not imagine, in essence, put in this time a relatively healthy man under anesthesia, grub vital organs like the heart and remove the respirator," said Vinocur.
Phebus is now mobilizing on-line. In a video posted on YouTube, says that 90,000 people die every year waiting for organ transplants, and compares his situation to a soldier in the trenches that jumps on a grenade to save his comrades.
"I'm not suicidal," he says. "I just know that it is a matter of time before he died and I want to do a good thing for all those who do have a good life expectancy."
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