Reply To: Are hospitals "organ harvest happy"?

In case my post wasn’t long enough, I forgot about his #4… So here it is:

” 4. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

People with Alzheimer’s disease eventually lose

all of the capacities that make a human being a person.

But the millions of people in the USA with various degrees of dementia

However, when we foresee Alzheimer’s as the last phase of our own lives,

we can leave detailed instructions about what should be done,

including a voluntary death or a merciful death followed by organ donation.

This is the route I have chosen for myself.

I choose (now while I am fully a person) to have my life peacefully terminated

if ever I sink to the level of a former person.

Just when I might lose personhood is defined in my small book called:

When Is a Person? Pre-Persons and Former Persons:

http://

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This book offers about 200 questions that can be asked by proxies

when discussing the level of personhood in anyone they know.

These questions are organized around 4 capacities that make us persons:

(1) consciousness, (2) memory, (3) language, & (4) autonomy.

If and when I lose most of these capacities that make me a person,

it is the responsibility of my Medical Care Decisions Committee

to decide what should happen to James Park next.

My proxies must make all further decisions for me,

since by the fact of my advancing loss of autonomy, language, & memory

I will no longer be able to make my own medical decisions