RELIGST 2N03 Chapter Notes -Père Lachaise Cemetery, Jack Kevorkian, Funeral Director
13 Mar 2014
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Reading: excerpts from: strange harvest by sharp, l. [this article is about strategies used in medical context for depersonalizing brain dead donors. ] In the public arena, organ transplantation is always represented as a radical and successful form of personal transformation, where the generous gifts from one person have offered a renewed life to others. This transformation is considered so extraordinary that recipients speak of their surgeries as rebirths , and they publicly celebrate their lives twice each year: real birthday and on their rebirthday. The excerpts throughout the chapter deal with the feelings and communications of transplant recipients and donor relations. Donor guilt : recipients are reminded that their well being springs from the lost lives of others, and some find this burden overwhelming. The donor family who wish to publicly memorialize the dead but are directed to stick with a scripted formula for public discussion.
