several questions

Lera 2022-03-25 09:01:08

1. On the issue of no escape.

My understanding is that this is their fate. Just as we were born to be told that one day we will die, basically we have no ability to fight. So do they. They have no other skills except to ensure their own health and wait for the day of donation, how to survive even if they escape from a Hayerson, a farmhouse.

2. Human rights issues of human cloning.

Hayerson is an extremely cruel idea. They are born and grow up, and after the age of 18, they begin to wait for the end or even look forward to the end. Except for animal eating, drinking and lhasa and basic desires, they have no right to be "human", just because they are "made". Like piglets in a pigpen, waiting for them is a clean and tidy hospital-like slaughterhouse.
But unlike the piglets, they also have thoughts, feelings, happiness, pain, crying and laughing, and they also accept fate helplessly. And their fate is precisely imposed on them by people who share the same face and genes as them.

3. Everyone's choice question.

If you were given the right to "manufacture" a similar completely healthy self for organ transplants for diseases you may have in the future or are currently having, how would you choose?

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Extended Reading

Never Let Me Go quotes

  • Kathy: It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart.

  • [first lines]

    Kathy: My name is Kathy H. I'm 28 years old. I've been a carer for nine years. And I'm good at my job. My patients always do better than expected, and are hardly ever classified as agitated, even if they're about to make a donation. I'm not trying to boast, but I feel a great sense of pride in what we do. Carers and donors have achieved so much. That said, we aren't machines. In the end it wears you down. I suppose that's why I now spend most of my time not looking forwards, but looking back, to The Cottages and Hailsham, and what happened to us there. Me. Tommy. And Ruth.