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A story to contemplate:
d**k had made a mistake, but surely the price he was paying was too high. He of course know that level six of the hospital was a restricted area. But after he had drunk one too many glasses of wine with his colleagues at the Christmas party, he had inadvertently staggered out of the elevator on the sixth floor and passed out on one of the empty beds.
When he woke up he discovered to his horror that he had been mistaken for a volunteer in a new live-saving procedure. Patients who require vital organ Transplants to survive were being hooked up to volunteers, whose own vital organs were keeping them both alive. This would continue until a donor organ could be found, which was usually around nine months later.
d**k quickly called over a nurse to explain the mistake, who in turn brought over a worried looking doctor.
'I understand your anger,' explained the doctor,'but you did behave irresponsibly, and now you are in this position, the brutal truth is that if we disconnect you, the world renowned violinist who depends on you will die. You will be in fact murdering him.'
'but you have no right!' Protested d**k, 'Even if he dies without me, how can you force me to give up nine months of my life to save him?'
'I think the question you should be asking' said the doctor sternly,'is how you can choose to end this violinist's life.'