Yasin Topaloðlu (25), who lives in the town of Hopa near Artvin and has already lost three siblings to kidney failure, is experiencing the disappointment of a lifetime: His father will not donate his kidney to him, despite the fact that the two men are a biological match.  Topaloðlu, whose kidneys both stopped functioning about five years ago, has been receiving treatment at the Trabzon Training and Research Hospital for the past two months. Topaloðlu has already lost two brothers and one sister to malfunctioning kidneys, and doctors recently decided that a kidney transplant was also necessary for him.

After doctors made clear the necessity of a kidney transplant for Topaloðlu, his father, Ali Topaloðlu, who had separated from his mother 10 years ago and since remarried and had two other children, went through the necessary blood tests to find out whether his kidney would be a match for his son. But while Ali Topaloðlu initially accepted the idea of kidney donation to his son, he later changed his mind.

And now Yasin Topaloðlu, who undergoes kidney dialysis three times a week, is experiencing deep frustration and disappointment with his father´s decision. "Well, despite everything, he is my father. I can´t get angry with him," Yasin Topaloðlu said in a statement to the Anatolia news agency. "All I really want from my father is that he contribute to my life span."

Topaloðlu, noting that he had a girlfriend with whom he had already made marriage plans, said: "My girlfriend´s father told me, ´I don´t have a daughter to just give to someone with kidney disease.´ And so I was crushed once more. I want someone to help me. Please, let someone hear my cries for help. I want to live."

Yasin Topaloðlu´s mother, Nilgün Erdoðan, talked about the difficulty of watching her own child in this situation. "In these difficult times, I try to be by his side. It is very difficult for him at this age, to try and live his life while being hooked up to dialysis," she said. "From a financial perspective, we do not have the money to pay for a kidney. His father´s kidney would be a match, but they made a family decision not to donate. I tried to convince his father, but it didn´t work. As it is, I have already lost three children to kidney failure. This is a very tough situation. If only my body matched the transplant conditions, I would give my own kidney without hesitating."   

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Poor son!

 very black and white. If only life were like that! Life makes you take decisions you previously thought you wouldn´t, but everybody´s judgements and opinions are coloured by life´s experiences. Maybe we shouldn´t be so quick to judge??

 No, I would not want a body part from a dead person, even if it could save my life.....but I also would not want any part of my body stolen like happened to Alistair Cook without permission....

"reports that a body-snatching ring, operating illegally to sell tissue for use in transplants, managed to obtain and distribute the bones of famed British broadcaster Alistair Cook after his death in 2004. Bill Sherman of the Daily News fills Madeleine Brand in on a bizarre story."

There are pros and cons of this whole thing too. Think of it as a highly profitable business the hot commodity of which is the human body and its parts. All sorts of abuses are possible. There are people whose kidneys were stolen or those who were forced to sell theirs either by force or through trickery or those who sold their organs to feed their families. This trade is done among three parties donors, doctors and receiving patients. In many cases the middle chain is also the corrupt chain with certain doctors and their accomplices accomplish this through illegal methods.

It is just an assumption to say that a dead body belongs to another entity such as the family of the deceased, the government or the medical organization hence it is in their authority to decide what to do with it. When you assume that you are disregarding so many personal rights. Furthermore, you are probably a very simple-minded person who doesn´t care about the subtleties of human life that is why you see nothing wrong in reducing this highly complicated matter that affects many people into a simple Boolean Equation. 

If you are thick as brick an organ transplantation will not change anything.

 then you are a double brick if you cant donate your kidney to your child. end of story!

folks, what for do you need your body after you die? are you going to use it in afterlife?

I would donate my entire body after death (I haven´t done anything about it yet) and I would certainly donate any of my organs to my son including the vital ones.

 Absolutely nothing!  Only good for the maggots or the oven. And there is no afterlife.

  there is no afterlife.