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Thread #86678   Message #1745251
Posted By: Divis Sweeney
22-May-06 - 05:21 AM
Thread Name: Obit: George Best (November 2005)
Subject: RE: Obit: George Best (November 2005)
Today Belfast City Airport is being renamed The George Best Airport.
When you consider that this man through his own actions destroyed his own liver, then was given the chance of life again by the kindness of a family who donated the organ of a loved one in 2002 and proceeded to destroy it too. For the life of me I cannot understand why anyone would wish to highlight this shameful life in such a way. Yes he was a talented footballer, as were so many others. To make such a public gesture is nauseating. As I have said before I have watched many times families making that decision to turn off a life support machine and watch as a new life is given to someone else. Words fail me on this occasion.