The Weirdest Court Battle

THE WEIRDEST COURT BATTLE:

　

Last Saturday, I was changing channels in search for better movies to watch. Then search, search then something interesting on the screen of our TV featuring MY SISTER's KEEPER movie is on. The girl Kate is at the hospital and keeping an eye on one of the hospital patients, a young man who is sick also just like Kate, then the two sick young teens fell in love and then kissed each other and I changed channel once again. I'm not interested anymore. I don't like a movie like that. I don't find the movie too serious to be interested.

　

Then last Sunday, the movie started again in another channel. This time the movie began from it's "beginning" and there was that narrative, of the real victim, Ann Fitzgerald (11 year old organ donor since the time she was born). Ann was conceived through IVF or In Vitro Fertilization (egg and sperm from parents were united/experimented in a petri dish in the laboratory) she was CONCEIVED ONLY so that they can harvest vital tissues and bone marrow for her older sister Kate who was sick of ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA. "Acute."

When the word "acute" is diagonosed, therefore there's no amount of survival expertise is required however due to maybe of a perfect match found to be of vital importance then Kate was able to live up to the time when she asked her sister Ann to be emancipated from being an organ donor. Because Ann has provided much of the necessay marrow and if didn't help Kate in the first, second operation then there is something wrong. Either the patient si rejecting the aid or she wants to die. Well, they discovered that Kate really wants to die that's why she had renal failure and would need a new kidney and once again their Mother (portrayed by Cameron Diaz) was desperate that Ann has to give half of her kidney. All the members of the family looked at her like being selfish for being reluctant to give the vital organ that would save the life of Kate. I couldn't believe how SELFISH the members of the family who are looking at Ann like they were sort of the wicked lunatic witches and vampires using Ann as their sacrifice.

　

I was shocked about the story of this movie. It's a monster movie. I can't help get mad at Cameron Diaz for being so selfish not standing up for her daughter Ann. Favoritism sort of? Is Ann not a daughter to her lawyer Mother whose wisdom needs inquiry? Why the judge and Ann's lawyer would fight for her against this monstrous plan of saving a dying person who wants to die anyway. I feel so much sympathy for Kate but if God wants somebody to die we can't argue with God and His logic. There is a reason why someone has to die. We all have to die at some point in our life but nobody knows when or where, what time or day. Why let someone suffer for the suffering of a person. It's a 50/50 chance everytime there's an organ replacement operation. Seriously, the chance of an organ donor giving the half kidney after you had taken her marrow and other essential parts of a living donor would end up Ann being the next patient and suffer the same consequences. Leukemia is cancer. If one member of the family has cancer there could be a chance that another member of the family has cancer. The Mother is a lawyer, the father is a firefighter. Is there something fishy behind this family?  Anyway, thank God! Ann won the legal battle (after suing her Mother in court). She should, if not then she'll end up like an animal being taken advantage by her cruel family. It was cruel and unethical! It's CRAZY!

　

Not long time ago, I watched a documentary show on TV about too many organ donors in Philippines. Hundreds, thousands of these Filipino men who are in poverty sold their kidneys to foreign buyers. Each kidney was worth P10,000 to P50,000. Those men were supported with right amount of drugs to help sustain their recovery and others were not able to survive. When the drugs for recovery is discontinued then end of life series. Because they were poor and the purpose on how they spent the money they received from those who bought their kidney end up futile. You should watch it too and find out. Why they sold their kidneys? OUT of DESPERATION. POVERTY!!!!! Too many poor families in Philippines. Sad, but true life of poor people trying to make a living by selling their own kidneys.

　

MORAL LESSON: TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF! There is ONLY ONE YOU! You are unique in your own special way. There is no such thing as Perfect match for anybody out there! You are not even match perfectly for your own brother, sister, not even to your own parents. How could your vital internal organs be matched with other person in another tribe, clan much more with foreigners?