Organ Donation...

uknowist · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:03

couldn't u just sign other people up to the register online..?

poopots · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:04

I signed up for everything apart from my eyes, they seem a little too personal to be giving away.

Windle · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:33

Yup I'm on the register. Once I'm done they can do what they want, the only thing I don't have on my card is for Cornea donation. Eyes freak me out big style so someone messing around with them even when I'm dead is a no-no.

djmc0 · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:34

Don't understand the whole eye thing, Hey, you're dead. What is so personal about the corneas?

Davies_M · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:35

Too bad you can't make specifications on who may have one of your organs!

djmc0 · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:36

Davies_M said:
Too bad you can't make specifications on who may have one of your organs!

That is a fair point considering people like George Best. He wasn't happy ruining his own liver!

uknowist · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:55

djmc0 said:
Don't understand the whole eye thing, Hey, you're dead. What is so personal about the corneas?

yeah i never got it either, when i worked in the dvla the amount of people that would tick all the boxes for organ donation bar the corneas was huge. However one person even made their own box up and put brain

Mr. Anderson · 10 Nov 2009 at 00:21

Davies_M said:
Too bad you can't make specifications on who may have one of your organs!

There is a council I believe, to even be put on the list you have to pass certain regulations, obviously though if you have the money and are a famous figure like best you can probably have a few rules twisted. Normal bad people wouldn't get away with it though.

I'm hoping that for some reason science is all completely wrong and when i die the person that gets my eyes will be gifted sight but I will also be able to see, like that film with Cameron Diaz (fap fap) and the puppeteer who works in a skyscraper in a half sized floor. Can't remember the name of it.

uknowist · 10 Nov 2009 at 00:30

Mr. Anderson said:
and the puppeteer who works in a skyscraper in a half sized floor. Can't remember the name of it.

Being John Malkovich?

Mr. Anderson · 10 Nov 2009 at 00:32

Yeh that's it!

Andelusion · 10 Nov 2009 at 00:32

I'm a donor. Signed up after a campaign a couple of years ago that convinced me.

Tonyator · 10 Nov 2009 at 02:15

Been on it since i got my driving licence, to donate everything. Given blood a few times, but been busy the last few times.

HAz · 10 Nov 2009 at 02:19

they should pay you to be on it tbh, that would get me signing the dotted line

Tonyator · 10 Nov 2009 at 02:23

But you don't need your organs after death so why does it matter?

THats my thinking anyways.

ThatJoe · 10 Nov 2009 at 03:55

Signed up. Cheers

Glaucus · 10 Nov 2009 at 06:04

I'm a donor have been since, well I can't remember when. If you are on the donor register. You need to sit down with your next of kin and tell them you want to do it. As your next of kin can over ride your choice of being a donor once you are dead. Absolutely stupid law and one that needs to be changed.

Dave85 · 10 Nov 2009 at 06:39

Just joined they can have it all but my small bowel, it doesnt work properly for me so not lumbering some poor git with it lol, been thinking about it for a while and finally joined, also uploaded a pic to wall of life

apeZ · 28 Nov 2009 at 13:12

Little bump, I think a thread like this is worthy of one.

Got a letter and my donor card in the mail today, will be keeping it in my wallet

Go on people, sign up! https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/ukt/RegistrationForm.do

Efour · 28 Nov 2009 at 13:31

In my religeon my organs are removed and elmbalmed and my corpse gets wrapped up in bandages. I also like cats.