Originally Posted by Kaiser
				
			
			Ok. Flame if you want but I want to explain how I justify feeling that he's right (to a large degree). Lemme start by pointing out that my dad had kidney trouble and refused a donation from either me or my half-sister who are the only two living perfect matches we could find. He said he'd rather die than take it from us. That's not why he died though. He actually died of unrelated (or possibly remotely related, but not directly) heart issues, probably a stroke. My grandmother on my mom's side died of brain cancer just two years back, the year after my dad died. My only three living relatives who give a **** about me at all are my mom and my grandfather who I would kill for if they asked me to.
 
But I wanna point something my mom told me out after my dad died. What if my kids needed a kidney and I had given it to my dad? What then? My dad would probably still have died of the stroke. I would still only have one kidney from this point on, and I would have had no way to do anything for my children when the time arose, if it ever did. I never understood that my dad saw things that way. He died with me being upset and thinking I could have helped him. But instead he helped me, and my kids, and maybe my grandkids, who knows. I love my dad. I would have done it. He didn't want me to. Why? Because he knew that there were a hundred other things that could go wrong. I was an adult, so was my half sister. He felt he had done his best and that if he had to go, then he had to go. So he took that chance and stayed with us as long as he could, doing everything he could to help me and my mom be ready for when he did go. And when he did go he had done a damn good job of that. I miss him every day, and every day I thank him for sacrificing himself for my future, which is his future too now. So don't think that everyone who agrees with Miro is a total ass. Because some people just learned different ways. Some people have had different experiences. I'm not saying I agree with Miro, and living with what happened is the hardest thing in my life some days. I just keep thinking maybe the kidney transplant would have helped other things. But it's just not the case. He died so that I, my kids, my grandkids, his grandkids and great grandkids, could have that oppurtunity if they needed it.
 
So say what you will but sometimes...sometimes things aren't as simple as they seem for everyone.