Respect Recycle & Reuse - a Clarion Call to Organ Donors

In Tribute to Corporal Ben Kopp

 Corporal Benjamin Kopp

(born: 20 Jan 1988 - immortalised: 18 July 2009)

Corporal Benjamin S. Kopp was a rifleman assigned to 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, in the US Military, who died in Afghanistan, saving 6 soldiers in a firefight and then saved the life of 75 others by donating his organs…Now, his heart beats in 57-year-old Judy Meikle of Chicago.

I do not understand the stigma associated with Organ Donation -  Everybody is thankful to be a recipient but wary and scared of being a donor.

The Golden Rule, articulated in the Bible by Jesus is enshrined in most faiths is ‘Do to others as you would have them do to you!’

All the major religions believe, that the human soul resides in the body and The Body Is The Temple of The Soul.

If the body is a Temple for the Soul, why not let others use its bricks to continue living in their temples?

When the soul has departed, shed its mortal coil and all that is left is the shell …. Why can’t the shell be used by other souls ???

Can you imagine what the world would be like without the iPod revolutionizing the Music Industry, the iPhone revolutionizing Mobile Technology and now the iPad all set to do the same for Computers? These leaps and paradigm changes in consumer technology have happened all thanks to the Anonymous Organ Donor who gave Steve Jobs a new Liver.

To all those who oppose organ donation for the “supposed desecration” of the body, I adjudge that Ben and all organ donors, I am sure have been forgiven for (supposedly) “desecrating” their bodies, as The Golden Rule could also be worded as do for other as you would want them to do for you.

God Bless & Long Live Ben!

To Read more about Ben’s Immortality –

1)  http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/08/the-heart-of-a-ranger-godspeed-corporal-benjamin-kopp.html

2) http://wcco.com/health/solider.heart.transplant.2.1121263.html

To Learn how to can become a Donor in India visit –

http://orbo.org.in/orbohome.htm
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ORGAN RETRIEVAL BANKING ORGANISATION (ORBO)

ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Ansari Nagar, New Delhi- 1100 29

ORGAN DONOR FORM

Date                                                                                        Regd. No.

I, ……………………………………son / daughter / wife  of

……………………………………...in the hope that I may

help   other  hereby   make   this  anatomical  gift,  if  medically  acceptable,  to   take

effect upon my brain death.  I hereby with to donate the following organs.

Hearts, Lungs, Kidneys, Liver, Corneas & ……………………………

My blood group is …………………………………

Special wishes - ……………………………….…………

Signed by the donor in the presence of two witnesses:

                                                                                                                                               

          Signature of donor with date                                Date of birth of donor

Address of the donor ……………………………………………………………

Telephone No.………………………..

                                                                                                                                   

    Witness    (1)                                                                    Witness (2)