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Friday, 6 October 2017

ANOTHER WORLD AND OUR ORGANS BY FIONA CUMMINGS


This is a very long read. Your mind will be challenged. I think you may say, mine certainly is after you get to the bottom of this…

 

Our Prime Minister yesterday said she is going to introduce lifesaving opt out organ donation in England. This means people will not have to register to donate their organs, but if they don’t want their organs being used, then they will have to opt out.

 

This is already happening in Wales and the Scottish Government are about to make it the same there. Mrs May said it would help the most vulnerable in our society. She said.

"We already know, for example, that members of black minority ethnic communities have a higher risk of illnesses such as high blood pressure that may lead to the need for an organ transplant.””

 

500 people last year in England died because of needing organ donations and the suitable ones weren’t available. There are 6,500 people on the transplant list.

 

So, what is my opinion on this subject? Controversial, not really, though there will be some who will say I’m wrong of course. Selfish? Some would say yes. Weird? Definitely, but here goes.

 

Firstly, I think if someone excepts a transplant, they should have to be on the list to donate their organs.  If they are not already on that list, then they should have to sign a paper to say they will donate. If they are in a state of mind where they can’t do that because for example they are in a coma, then that should be up to their next of kin.

 

For those who need anything to do with their kidneys and it has proven that their damage is self-inflicted, they should be at the back of the queue. Harsh, perhaps. Me for example, I’m hugely overweight. Not from all that I eat but lack of exercise combined with the actual food I eat. Not masses by far, quite the opposite, but just the wrong food. I eat double my bread intake. So, if I need anything to do with that, and there is a fitter person on the list for the same part, then they should get the treatment. I’m not saying thin people should automatically go to the front of the queue, as I know someone who is six and a half stone, 90 lbs, but they smoke, drink and only eat food that is fried. Tell me how she is thin? I don’t know. But her life is in my opinion dangerous. So, how do peoples lifestyles get checked out? Hmm. Well, it’s possible for sure by what we buy, all store cards for example, do you think that is for our benefit? No, I’m sure it is big brother of the future. But that isn’t 100% accurate, because    in our house for example. My Husband eats meat. Not fried. I don’t eat meet, because I’m a vegetarian. My Husband and I eat bread, crisps and chocolate. Our Son never eats anything like that apart from the odd sandwich which is never more than a couple of slices per day. He eats very healthy, though not fruit. My Husband eats loads of fruit, me, a little. So, if all of us needed a transplant, to do with the heart for example, I would be at the bottom of the list because of my weight, but for what my Husband eats it should be him. And my Son should be at the top, but, if the NHS were in contact with our card that buys our shopping, it would be very confusing for them to decide. Unless they went on weight and as I said, that wouldn’t be totally fair as my friend who is massively underweight, has the worst lifestyle I have ever known.

 

If my Husband or Son needed a transplant. I would pray that someone had it in their heart to donate that there would be a match. If I was asked to donate and it wasn’t directly for my Husband or Son, I wouldn’t. Why? Now this is when it gets odd.

 

My belief is, when we die, we move onto the next land with what we left this one with. I’m thinking, hoping, that the blind will see deaf people will hear and those who can’t walk will be able to. But if a part of us is missing, for example, our eyes, then we won’t see. I believe that our next land will be if we have been good on this one, a better place, and small miracles can take place, but only working with what is there.

 

As most of my views, I have never heard this being spoken about before.    

I’m sure that some people will say, no, ---, whoever their religious denomination is, will be able to cure all. But, firstly, we don’t know this for sure. And, it’s just something that I believe that they, it he whatever, isn’t that clever to make things, like, legs, eyes. But will be able to fix what is broken.

 

Also, the worst thing for me is to think of the person I love being tampered with, cut and pulled about after they have died. Where is the dignity in that?  At the same time. For those people who will donate, and give a life to someone because of their kindness and selflessness, I have such high regards for.

 

My Husband really believes in the opt out Dona system. I’m so on the fence. He says to me, if I except an organ from someone, do I believe that they won’t go to heaven? Especially for doing such a good deed? They will I believe go to the next land, wherever it may be, but not with that part they donated. And there are thousands of people if not for the rest of the world who will not have my opinion, so by them donating, they will be fine, as they don’t have the same view as me.

 

A very cheerful subject in our household often is the argument of burial or cremation. My Husband is adamant that he wants to be cremated. I again, think if that happens, there will be nothing left of him to go to wherever. If buried, our shell we will leave but the image of us will go to the next world. That image if burnt, will be nothing left. It’s a dreadful subject but one we have as he 100% doesn’t want to be buried.

 

Our Son wants us to be buried as he wants someone to visit to have time with as he will be the only child we have left at our funeral, who knows what will happen. I guess he will do what we have requested. To be honest, I want to live forever. Smile. The thought of death totally terrifies me. I find it amazing just how brave people are who are dying. If that were me, I would cry half the time and freak out the other half. I’m scared stiff. I so admire people who are such believers that they really really do believe that they will go to a better world and see their loved ones who have already passed.

 

A few weeks ago, I was talking over a coffee with a friend about the after world, as you do. She believes that we will meet with those we love past and in time future. When it’s our kids time to Passover. I have my beliefs but because I don’t know for sure, I still have some reservations. I’m the kind of person who has to see things in black and white. I have so much admiration for those people who absolutely believe in the next land. I have a lot of friends who fundamentally conclude that their word is true and nothing will change their mind to even for a second think out of the box and regard that there may be an alternative. I wish I had that much faith. When I say I believe, it’s more like I hope. I’m realistic. I don’t think that our next land is going to be perfect. Just better we climb the ladder of life and eventually we will get to the top. What happens though when we reach the optimum shelf of life? Do we then start to come back down? Some people such as spiritualists, believe that death and life, are seven floors high. Some think we choose our life we have here. Why would I pick being blind? To teach me a lesson? So, for those who have a perfect life on earth, what’s your future, haha. I joke and say with my life, my past, if that was my choice, what kind of mind did I have, and, if by your life on earth depicts our next world, then hey, I’m heading right for the top.

 

How come we have a memory on the next land according to those who do believe we meet with those we love, but forget everything when we enter this world?

 

Oh, I frequent this subject and each time I sound like a mad person, and I guess confuse you all. My mind works in a very odd way. It’s full of so many questions. I have written about who I think God is.

 

I think, the big bang was aliens landing crashing on earth. I guess they will have messed their planet up just like we are doing to our planet. This was the best for us, just like we think Mars will be best for us to live on, in the future.

 

I do believe we come from another planet. I believe there was a man called Jesus and I think he was an alien. He was different. And he was punished. If aliens landed on earth now, we would shoot them down. They probably know this, so they keep away, but they are watching us for sure.

 

I wonder if what we call spirits are walking among us, they may not even see us, they may look so different to us. Our ability isn’t able to see them.

 

When we pray, whoever is in tune with our soul and minds, can hear us and work with us. I call them my angels and I really have had my own proof that they exist. Some would say this is consciousness. Just being aware of our own feelings, our insides and this takes us to a place of pure relaxation. Somewhere we don’t find time in our busy lives to go to often. It’s a lovely place I enjoy those moments so much and there is a kind of spiritual feeling that leaves you feeling so peaceful. Now I do think that is my angels or my maker listening to me giving me that love I need at that point, a reassurance that he is there working with me for whatever I have asked for.

 

Sometimes when I pray, I feel nothing and there are other times, I’m transported to another world just for a moment. That feeling of pure love is amazing, now, is that my own awareness existence, surroundings? Or, is it what I hope for, my maker or angels listening to me. I really hope, that it is the latter. But the fact is, we don’t know. Now I have seen things in my life I can not explain. Things have happened to me that I also can not explain. It would be easy for me to say I have been spoken to by God, but even though I have had those experiences, I’m so sad that I can not be like some of my friends and believe, truly believe. I so want to. But there is a barrier there preventing me from seeing what is over the wall.

 

Gosh, where has this blog gone to? Basically, for those people who will donate their organs, you are amazing. And I wish the best for you. For those waiting for an organ transplant, I pray you will be fixed soon, especially if you are not responsible for your organ failure. For those who are anxious about the fact we have to opt out if we don’t want to donate, firstly, I hope the procedure will be made easy and I hope this won’t be a road to a never ending of decisions that our governments will decide for us. How far will this go?

 

Oh, and before I go, if we get a new heart, and it comes from a cold person, who was quite harsh in life, are we going to be like that person, if love comes from our heart? If love comes from our brains/minds, and we in the future are able to get brain transplants, will we change and think like the person who had that brain before us?

 

I was reading an article oh it fascinated me. It said that people who have been cryogenically frozen, could be brought back to life within three years by having their brains transplanted into a new body.

 

Will that brain remember who they were before? Oh, this is a subject I must read more about.

 

Gosh, have your got to the bottom of this blog? If so, you are either interested in the same subjects as me, or you are a specialist and are reaching for the phone right now to get me admitted. Or, you can’t believe how my mind works and are just curious. God help any person who may get my brain. I tell you, it’s like a factory with the biggest production. It never stops and the workers are on shifts whereby they don’t even get a toilet break. The production line in my factory runs on energy, batteries as well as electric and solar power. The noise is dreadful the lighting is even fading but it’s not a boring place to be. If you get bored of one of many subjects, then there will be another around the corner. Haha.

 

OK, on that note, to all my friends and Bloggets who have given me their opinions on organ transplants, thank you. It’s an interesting subject. And for those who have said what about those people who are unable to make their minds up because of their disability, what right do we have to make up their minds for them?

 

   

I do believe, or, again using that word believe, I wish there was a better word, as I think that word should be something one should know, rather than just hope for and how can we know this if we have never been there or remember being there? I think, we are recycled. We live each land as a different person or creature. Or, whatever else is out there in our vast universe. I think there is life on other planets. I’m not so narrow minded to think we are the only life. That would be crazy. But how do we not remember being alive before? And if we were, then what makes us think we will remember those we love in the next world? Also, why is there only three worlds, earth, heaven and hell? I think there are many places we can end up in. different zones of life. I think we may go to a land where our body changes into a machine for example. But the best land of all is what we look like now, but in a peaceful perfect place. And that is where we meet with our loved ones. And we stay there forever. But that would be too good to be true, right?

 

 

Sorry if there are loads of errors grammatically speaking, but if I was to edit this and read it over, I wouldn’t publish it, as I would self-analyse myself and would disregard my writing in fear of sounding like the crazy minded person I actually am. I write from my mind and heart and don’t want my writing to be processed. Now, time for a coffee. Cup of tea, or probably something stronger for you. () Peace

 

© Fiona Cummings

 

  

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