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Volume: 18 Issue: 1 July 2020 - Supplement - 2

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Why Altruistic Donation is Not Fulfilling the Expectations?

The critically growing organ shortage reflects a failing system of Altruistic Donation (AD) in spite of the tremendous efforts invested mainly by the medical community and the hundreds of thousands of organs wasted yearly. The global rate of kidney transplant had only increased from 11 to 12% and the gap continues to widen between the number of kidney transplants and that of waitlisted patients. It is the result of cultural barriers, religious obstacles, government’s laxity and societal apathy and fear with consequent distrust in the system that implies a lack of solidarity within and among societies.

This lack of societal cohesion is the consequence of the state of sub-consciousness at the individual and collective levels that places humans in a permanent survival mode and results into the loss of their intelligence and hence of their compassion, engagement and devotion. This is well mirrored by the noticeable increase in kidney transplant from live unrelated donation in different regions that has resulted in the proliferation of transplant tourism, trafficking and commercialism, contributing to a survival system within which the wealthy recipients, mainly from the rich countries, exploit the poor donors from the underdeveloped countries. This is well reflected by the main focus of humans on materialism, consumerism, greed, fame, politics and religion, all being necessary ingredients of struggle for power and hence for control. This state of sub-consciousness originates from a domestication process that begins at fetal conception and is enforced later on by familial and socio-cultural-religious-political and mass media organizations, all being under the influence of the monetary establishment. The acquired negative and erroneous beliefs, mainly during the domestication process, influence our perception and hence our emotions, our behaviors, our values and ultimately our final destination, UNLESS we become conscious, intelligent and reprogram our subconscious mind.

Altruistic donation requires a close collaboration between all parties involved in the donation process and necessitates therefore a positive reprograming of our subconscious based on cooperation, sharing, harmony, resilience, generosity and recycling that will lead to satisfaction, gratitude, trust, inner peace, and ultimately happiness which are well known laws of nature and major components of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, the peak of CONSCIOUSNESS. CONSCIOUSNESS and therefore AD is optimized when we, attain a stage of perfect harmony with Mother Nature and her laws.



Volume : 18
Issue : 1
Pages : 74 - 74
DOI : 10.6002/ect.rlgnsymp2020.P8


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Corresponding author: Antoine Barbari, MD,
Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon