Finally the urge was overwhelming. I just had to answer one of your correspondents who obsessively writes to you. I refer ”“ and everyone should have guessed by now ”“ to Frank Novotny. See “Reader’s Forum” from April 7.
Now if printing his usual diatribes is meant to amuse us, then I concede he is hilarious without meaning to be so. But given the unlikely chance that someone might take him seriously, let’s just note that he outdid even himself in his latest bit of nonsense challenging Mr. Dunlop’s well-meant plea for the noble cause of organ donation.
Novotny’s brief letter starts with a specious premise upon which he builds his “argument.” It’s a “fact” he tells us that we can only claim an organ for transplant by taking it from living, breathing, alive and kicking humans. Ignoring the technology involved that allows dying and even passed away donors to share an eye ball, or a liver, or even a heart ”“ Novotny paints a macabre scene where creatures slice open wombs or, in Jack the Ripper-like fashion, excise beating tissue from unwilling murder victims.
His intended conclusion to this distorted bit of grotesque fancy will remain with him ”“ and it is best that way.
Joseph W. Mahoney, Ph.D. , Saco
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