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The Lancet Interactive Discussion Groups http://www.thelancet.com/cgi-bin/newlancet/reg/pg_discuss.cgi (Tue, 9 Feb 1999 05:38:11 GMT) "Our value Judgement" In Japan, according to the Japanese National Police Agency, 141 persons were killed by gunshots in the five years 1993-97, 28.2/year; and 105932 were killed in traffic accidents in the ten years 1989-98, 10593.2/year. It is obvious that transplant surgeons in Japan count on the latter victims for organ donation. The dead in traffic accidents decreased to 9211 last year; however, it seems to me that we Japanese do not necessarily regard the numbers of victims as the most important criterion, because the decrease did not appeared as early as in USA and Germany. What is our value judgement? I wonder whether we do our best to save lives in every field. Our country is not suitable for organ transplant yet. Yoshifumi Enokawa