The Doctors DO NOT Have The Last Word BUT JESUS DOES!!

On Monday August 24, 2009 a good friend of mine collapse at home due to the bursting of a major artery in his brain and this happened in the very early hours of the morning. Unfortunately his wife was in Kuala Lumpur and only his 19 year-old daughter was at home.

He was immediately warded in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Changi General Hospital and put on life-support. As the doctors there presumed he was by then brain-dead, they wanted to harvest all his organs to save other lives. This has now been enacted by the HOTA (Human Organ Transplant Act) passed in the Singapore Parliament and unless one opts out of this, his/her organs are now eligible to be transplanted out of his/her body without the need for consent.

Of course his wife and family members were completely taken aback and protested that he is still alive and so two specialist surgeons were assigned to conduct a series of six tests on his body. Four tests return positive results of no brain activities but two turned out negative results. By the grace of God, in one of the tests, his fingers started to twitched and that put a temporary halt to the doctors' ambitions. However, they still maintained that twitching of fingers are non conclusive of brain activity and that they are still sticking to the theory that his organs can and will be harvested - it is just a matter of time.

Having witnessed the ridiculous nature of the behavior from the doctors (their eagerness to enforce HOTA on my poor friend's body), my family has now decided to opt out of the HOTA Scheme as we believe that the doctors do not hold the last word on our lives. The question of brain-death is not even a viable consideration as far as we are concerned. Have they not heard of cases where a patient, after an extended period of comatose, wakes up and start functioning normal lives? I do not wish to have the doctors playing 'god' over my life. Only Jesus has the final say over how and when my life should end - be it physical death (or sleeping as described in the bible) when Jesus tarries or physical rapture when Jesus comes back. Immediately I will have a brand new body that will last me for eternity; one where there will be no trace of any disease or sickness but perfection.