Organ Donations

I stuck myself down to donate whatever they wanted as soon as I was old enough, once I'm dead it's of no use to me.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
i would give blood if the process was a lot easier and quicker, i have decided to do it from time to time, not on the regular.

i am also happy to let them harvest my organs, going to get as many people i know in real life to do the same.
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IIRC you have used juice in the past? If you injected that rules you out of giving blood.
If I've completely mixed you up with someone else I apologise.
 
[TW]Fox;19275176 said:
Thats really not true, is it?
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Of course it's not really true - if it were, I'm sure they wouldn't have spent all those years at University while accomplishing all that medical training and would instead simply toss burgers in Maccy D's for 35K+ P/A :p

While I don't know Sonny personally I get the impression (from his posts in this thread) he's a keen body builder (yet to post pics) and has previously "taken juice" (what ever that means?). I'm also fairly sure that your average GP will have a far superior knowledge of the human body than your average body builder. However as is common in DG we've digressed a little off topic here haven't we? :p
 
Registered donor and have explained my wishes to my next of kin (who agrees and has the same arrangement with me) - also a blood donor.

It should be an opt out system - there's no reason at all why it shouldn't. If you are so adverse to giving life to others, for whatever reason (religious, squeamishness, just don't want to), then OPT OUT. With it being 'opt in' there would be many more organs for those who need it, so you don't have to worry about the doctors turning off your life support and harvesting you :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Simple really, innit?
 
I'm sure I signed some sheet ages ago to be one.

As far as I care, am dead do what the hell you want to me. I won't care. Don't see why anyone wouldn't, to be honest, it could save someones life. Damn, it could save your own kids life!
 
The worst thing about our donor system, is next of kin can over rule your choice. At a time of lose there must be loads in the greive process that refuse consent.
 
AcidHell2 said:
That doesn't solve the next of kin problem.
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It does when you (as an individual) haven't opted out - with the opt out system, the next of kin's wishes should be overruled unless they can prove the deceased did not want to donate organs :)
 
Quink said:
It does when you (as an individual) haven't opted out - with the opt out system, the next of kin's wishes should be overruled unless they can prove the deceased did not want to donate organs :)
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Why would it be any different to the op in system, next of kin shouldn't beagle to overrule but they can, I don't see why it would be any different under a opt out system.
 
Quink said:
Next of kin can override in the current system - they would not be able to with the new opt out one :)
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If it followed same rules they would be able to. It makes no different what system we use. The rule needs changing. Also opt out system isn't happening anyway.
 
Quink said:
Never said it was going to happen, just what should happen :)
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You don't seem to understand that an op out system wouldn't make any difference to next of kin. It is not an integral part of it, and there is nothing saying that rule would be change in an opt out system. Which is why your first post didn't make sense when you said it should be changed to opt out, well that would solve next of kin problem. The only thing that will solve that is changing the next of kin rule, which is independent of the system.
 
Sonea Fifer said:
Hi there

Thought I'd create this thread in relation to a conversation my OH and I had the other night.

Bit of background, She works as an ODP (Operating Department Practioner) specialising in neurosurgery and as part of her training earlier this week done a course on the Organ donation / replacement surgical teams - this was quite an in depth course involving speaking to surgical team members, organ recipients and the mother of a 12 year old girl who decided (after a brain aneurysm) that she wanted to become an organ donor! There's no need for me to go into too much detail re the conversation (suffice to say I was shocked) but I was also hit with a question I'd never thought of before. I'd always been in the frame of mind that no way would I ever be an organ donor, if I was dead I'd be buried/cremated in whole as I was born, however. . . . . . . .

Reverse the role, if for whatever dreadful reason you required a heart, kidney, etc etc would you be willing to turn it down having previously been in the same mindset as myself?

Slightly off topic but I'm a regular blood donor and have always thought "you never know when you may need an emergency blood donation yourself" and this is pretty much along the same line. Our conversation has certainly opened my eyes and now I am considering becoming an organ donor. I guess the question I'm asking what frame of mind are you guys (the collective OcUK forumites) in? And what decision would you choose?
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They can take what ever than can use, if they can not use then I want everything to go towards research and/or training.

I wanted to donate blood but was refused because of an old minor heart problem, now, that that has cleared up, I can give blood but no longer live in the UK, However when I go back to the UK for a holiday I'll be donating blood ;) and I'm even considering Bone Marrow donation.

[TW]Sponge;19268265 said:
What use are your organs once you are dead?

I don't understand why everybody isn't an organ donor.
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For some it's to freaky vvv for others they are just selfish.

Foxtrot26 said:
yup

everything bar the eyes thats just personal choice as it freaks me out the thought of it
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You'll be dead ;)

jp_bl_68 said:
I'd donate my organs. I won't need them once I'm dead.

The doctors can donate what they like and keep the rest for research/educational purposes. If, for whatever reason, they are unable to use my body then I'd like to be cremated and my ashes scattered (preferably in a river, but whatever's most convenient).
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Apart from being cremated it's pretty much how I feel.


Out here in Brazil it's not socially common to donate blood, so Lot's of people die here unnecessarily because there is never enough blood.
 
My dad was given a heart transplant when I was 17 (I'm now 36) and he's still going strong. He's since met the donors family (was a woman in her earlier 20s) and still meets up with them occassionally, they're thrilled that he's still around and that he's raised two children, something he'd never have been around to do without that transplanted heart. At the time of the transplant he was told he had at most 8 weeks to live.

I've been on the donor register since I was 18, originally I had everything down except my corneas.. but then after thinking about it I just put the whole lot down. If when I die anything is of use to improve someone elses life then I'm happy with that and good luck to them.

Our entire family are on the donor register, although I must admit that we'd never think badly of anyone who didn't want to go on it - this is an incredibly personal decision.
 
The idea of Organ Donation kind of makes me feel sick, just thinking of people cutting your insides out :/.

then agian, if I was dead I woulden't count on using my internal organs mutch anyway, so I probably would just give them to somebody who deserve it.
 
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