As Catwoman has already written, it depends on the family.  In rather more "traditional" famlies, there is no dateing what so ever.....there are no boy or girl friends anyway. 

One or two years of dating....?????..........only very modern Turkish famlies would consider that. Even in the US, when a friend of the opposite sex is introduced to family, eyes are raised and the introduction is taken as a sign of something very serious........and sometimes it´s hard to convince them otherwise. 

Daydreamer.....actually I agree 100% with you.....regarding the matter of consent....and that is the issue.  If someone willingly, and with knowledge donates their organs and tissue, G-d bless them. The probem is too many times this is not the case.

How about the people who were coerced out of their organs, or who´s organs were stolen from them?  We know for a fact of the case of Alistair Cooke (I was a fan and listened to his broadcasts every morning), whose tissue was stolen with out permission.  His tissue, being from a cancer victim ,and from a 96 year old was not even legally permissable, but still it was done. It only was an accident that revealed the case......and a whole network of criminals who "harvested", sold and traded in the "tissue".

When so much is at stake, there are those who will do highly unethical and illegal things to profit. There has to be a method to clearly limit illegal and unethical "harvesting". It´s downright goulish and gruesome.

Bayram Mubarak!!!

One thing that is often missed is the fact that organ recipients need some pretty nasty drugs to prevent their body rejecting the transplant.  I think we imagine a transplant....then all is well and the transplantee goes on and lives a normal life....not so....

Immunosuppresive drugs

The problem is when people get to the state of being paralyzed...they can´t express their wishes very well.................so it is often others who make the decision for them.

Yet another reason to think ahead.

I haven´t seen any reference to this in the news anyplace........but under the circumstances......wouldn´t she qualify as a political refugee and be given sanctuary?

Yes, mothers are famous for what they would do for their children.  However, the one whose organs you are thinking about taking are the child of someone, and they may be the parent of someone else...........and don´t forget they may only be paralyzed....not in a vegetative state....they may be fully conscious, but unable to communicate............and they may very well feel.

read the article Aenigma posted the link to

´A brain scan finally revealed Houben was conscious

A Belgian man who doctors thought was in a coma for 23 years was conscious all along, it has been revealed.

Medical staff believed Rom Houben had sunk irretrievably into a coma after he was injured in a car crash in 1983.

The University of Liege doctor who discovered in 2006 that, although Mr Houben was paralysed, his brain was working, said the case was not unique.

Mr Houben said that at first he felt angry at his powerlessness, but eventually learned to live with it´

Wonderful, thank you Turkishcobra.  This is a great way to learn Turkish....a very poetic Turkish...

Hmmm....did you read Merih´s column? It seems Turkish youth are also loosing their vocabulary as the rest of the "Modern" world is....u no?

+++   good for you.......I think this is called "walking the walk". 

I generaly avoid vaccinations myself.....but I have more opportunities and choices than some.

As a parent, it´s a big decision. We get vaccinated against a lot of horrid diseases and most the time they seem to work. I think it´s best to do research (as you are doing) and choose carefully.

Some illnesses were wiped out by vaccinations..things like polio, a truly horrific disease that affected millions of people. Many victims of polio are around still suffering from the effects.  I would not prohibit any child from gettng a polio shot, would you? ..........but I would be very careful in researching and asking questions about just what vaccine was being used.

As for flu shots....they only work on particular ones....not all of them. The best tactic is taking care by watching what you touch, wash your hands....stay out of crowded areas....but it´s hard. Everyone does not have that freedome to choose where they go and do not have access to sanitary facilities. They also don´t have access to healthy foods, so it´s impossible for them to fortify their systems to fight diseases.