Your $200,000 Body by Dr. Wu Tao-Wei Yes, that is what your body is worth to the Medical Monopoly ... $200,000. Of course, you have to die, first. And no, the money isn't yours or your heirs' money. This is the amount that the physicians make when they dissect and disassemble your corpse for spare parts. Those of you who have fallen for the swindle of donating your body to science or donating your organs or bodily parts for medical replacement in other people, might think again about doing this. The warm, gratified feeling of compassion that you might get by planning to do this, is well known by the physicians and is used to their advantage. Appeals are made to your humanity and loving-kindness to be an organ donor. They want you to feel that it is the good and right thing to do. Of course, the physicians don't want to pay you anything for this because it would cut into their profits. They want you to give them your corpse for free so that they can sell its various parts for a profit. Corneas, skin, tendons, kidneys, bone and anything else that they can transplant into victims of disease and accident are carefully chopped out of your corpse and either used immediately or frozen like cod fish for later use. Frozen human tissue up to two years old can often be successfully sewn and stapled into living patients. If you have AIDS or hepatitis or a dozen other microbial diseases, then these are transmitted to the recipient. And if your parts have rotted or deteriorated enough during cold storage, the recipient can get gangrene, also. The physicians don't give refunds for passing along such diseases, They just charge the victim more money to treat the newly acquired pathogens. So, you see, you become worth even more than the sum of your parts. The Medical Monpoly of the Western People has achieved some amazing results. Even though your physicians can treat your body like an auto mechanic treats your automobile, this does not mean that the human body SHOULD be treated like an automobile. There is nothing but Virtue accumulated from acts of kindness and compassion. But when compassion is cynically channeled into producing a profit for those who are neither Virtuous nor Compassionate, then there is a swindle being perpetrated. And this swindle is endemic to the entire Western Medical Monopoly. The allopathic philosophy of Western physicians is designed for maximizing profits. By treating symptoms rather than diseases, no cures are performed. As long as there is sickness there will be physicians. When sickness disappears, so does the reason for the existence of physicians. Their symptomatic medical philosophy ensures, if not the eradication of disease, then at least the perpetuation of a physician's income. So, what is so wrong with the dead helping the living? A dead person certainly has no further use for their body. Why not use the skin to replace that of a burn victim? Or the corneas, kidneys or any other part? While this might seem to be the logical thing to do, there is a philosophical hole in this scheme of things. You see, when people become too attached to the material nature of the world, they overlook and forget about the spiritual nature of this world. Those of us who can see the spiritual nature of the universe know that the Eternal Nature contains more Truth and more Reality than is found in material things. The material world is transient and temporary while the spiritual nature of the world is eternal. It is one of the potentials of human life to realize the Eternal Nature of things and to not be entrapped by the illusions of the material world. This is where religion comes into the forefront. This is where spirit triumphs over matter. Western physicians are deficient in this knowledge of the spirit of Mankind. Thus, they resort to treatments that are material in nature and they only treat the body. But the body is only one-half of a man or a woman. The spirit is the other half. For this reason, Western Medicine is actually only one-fourth as effective as it should be since it treats only one-half of the human and then only treats the "symptoms" of that one-half. Really, it is up to the People to heal their own ills since the Western physicians are not able or willing to do it. The People need to believe their ancient teachers - the Buddhas, the Christ, the religious philosophers and saddhus, those who knew of the spiritual nature of Man. The People need to practice meditation, prayer, fasting, qi gong and Tai Chi Chuan because without the knowledge of the Spirit, what other alternative do they have? The only other choice is to submit to the machinations of a Western Medical Monopoly that treats you like an automobile, cannibalizing your parts to fit into another chassis; stealing your body to sell for $200,000. And you don't get to keep any of the money. -------------------------------------------------------------- Second Publication Rights Granted as long as the following is credited: First Published in the Chinese Swaztika Newsletter, for free subscription send blank eMail to: