DB#314 – Nuts!
Today: Where am I? London, Rome, Zeeland or … Amersfoort? My ‘Everything I Always Wanted To Do But For Which I Could Never Find The Time’ Week; Great shows that get cancelled: first Firefly, then Daybreak, and now Jericho! Healthy Catholics in New York and Canada; Podcasting Priests; Fr. Bill Kessler’s Daily Breakfast!
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I am an organ donor. For me, it’s the only way to go. But I respect those who doesn’t want to donate their organs, for religious or other reasons. It’s every humans right to choose.
Next time you’ve got some leisure time, you might consider spending some days on Schiermonnikoog… It’s a car free island reachable by train and bus. You can take the train to Groningen CS and reach Lauwersoog by bus. There, you can take the ferry to Schiermonnikoog.
You might consider ‘Wadlopen’also… fun to do, awesome nature and working out at the same time
I disagree on Jericho’s quality versus Lost. I have a particular fondness for post-apocolyptic fiction, but couldn’t get past about 6 episodes. It was a very interesting premise, but I thought the acting was overdone and the writing predictable and cliched. If you liked Jericho, check out the book Alas, Babylon.
One way to think about organ donation is in the sense of the Catechism: We are not owners of anything in this world. We are stewards of the master’s goods like the parable of the talents. If we give to the poor and needy, we aren’t burying our talents, we are investing them in furthering God’s kingdom. Whatsoever we do to the least, we do unto Jesus. I am an organ donor, blood donor and willing to donate bone marrow. Who knows, the extra time my tissue might give someone on this earth might be the moment they need to turn their lives over to God.
I am a organ donor – and so is my whole family, my neighbours and most of the people I around me. The reason of this: In my country (Austria) everybody is an organ donor, as long as doesn’t officially declairs he doesn’t want do donate his organs. Still there are long waiting lists of people who need organ donations. But maybe these lists are a bit shorter than in other countries.
This is a nice surprise!!!
I just wanted to see what was going on on the site, but now I see a DB. I can’t wait to listen to it, so I’ll get on my motorbike quickly and ‘fly’ to Amersfoort, so I can listen to it. Unfortunately I can’t do that at my current job. 
Sirius’ “The Catholic Channel” web site page has gotten quite extensive in the last few months with information esp. regarding the daily schedule:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yrlpae
I look foward to hearing from the Technopriest. I have never had time to listen to him before. I think a “guest priest” when you need time off is a *great* idea, Father. Have a nice week doing “other” stuff.
London isn’t going anywhere…
I have been a donor for the past 11 years, my parents had to sign aswell as I was only 15 when I decedided to become one. Besides wanting to help others, I always thought about it the other way round: If something happens to one of my loved ones I want them to be saved by a donor transplant. And if you wish this for yourself and the ones surrounding you it is only fair to become a donor yourself.
About the show, I am quite surprised that people believed it to be real. I know BNN (the network) is controversial, but they have some really good and intens programmes about illnesses, especially amongst young people, and as they said themselves it was to extreme even for them. I agree with them that it is shocking we need a show like the Big Donor Show to get the attention the problem needs and hopefully something will be done about it.
Another think I do not understand about the Dutch system is that even when a person how signed up as a donor dies, the hospital has to ask permission of the next of kin, when they refuse, the (potential)donororgans won’t be harvested and therefore the donor will no longer be a donor.
I know you aren’t doing DB this week, but I thought you might like to get more information on the “nuts for jericho” campaign. There is a website set up that takes easy donations as low as $5, and the site covers delivering the nuts in bulk:
http://www.nutsonline.com/jericho?sid=HyEPPSv0bj1Ydmjj
they’re close to 40,000 pounds – over $50,000 spent on nuts
I am looking forward to the Technopriest edition of the Daily Breakfast!
Unfortunately, Fr. Bill Kessler did not make it to do his own podcast on a daily basis, so I am eager to listen to him daily via the Daily Breakfast.
The worse cancellation was of a show on Fox a few years back called “Reunion” the premise was that it was the groups 25th high school reunion and one person was murdered by one of the other classmates. The idea was that each episode was a year in their life starting with High school graduation. In each episode they would flash back to the future and they would give you clues on who did it. They canceled it about 12 or 13 shows in, so we never did find out who the murderer was