Never Let Me Go

The book Never Let Me Go is the type of book that raises a lot of questions right away, then takes its time answering them. It wasn't until the last reading assignment that I really figured out what the donations were. Their guardians are really secretive about a lot of things, Miss Lucy finally breaks out and tells them that they're never going to grow old because they will have to donate their vital organs. It's nice that they call them donations, implying it is something that they chose, when really it's what they were created for. To be honest though, the students really don't seem as troubled by the thought as I would think they should be. Yes, they've grown up with the idea, but you would think the fact that they were going to be slowly killed so that their organs could be harvested would upset them a little bit more than it appears to. Miss Lucy does specifically say that the students were created, whether or not they are clones, I'm not sure but it's definitely a possibility. I also wonder about those who go through donations that aren't Hailsham students. Are they created too, and if so, why aren't they raised the same as those from the school?

The Right to Die?

In class today we discussed do not resuscitate orders and death in general. The subject is hard to talk about because no one really likes to think about it. I think that personally there is such a thing as excessive measures to keep a person alive. Why would a person want to live as a vegetable for years when there is only an incredibly small chance that they will ever pull out of it. Then again, who can say for certain how they would react if they or someone they loved were in this situation?