Parents say disabled NJ girl was denied transplant

[LeftyMom]

17. I don't think I'd take an organ to buy a little time, knowing my larger diagnosis was terminal.

Sure, everybody wants a little more time if they can maintain some quality of life, but there's an organ shortage. Gaming the system to jump the transplant list, knowing you'll be buried with your shiny new organ fairly soon means that somebody else might die while they wait, who might otherwise have lived.

I couldn't do it, and I've got a young child myself. I wouldn't want that to be the example I left for him to remember me by. Anyhow, the person who might have got that liver almost certainly has people who love them too.