Poll: Are you a registered organ donor? Why/why not?

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

I'm an organ donor ... I did so because it's efficient.

Not sure how many organs the government could use however.

I'm not exactly the fittest person in the world ... despite being at the lower end of the BMI spectrum I have no other phsyical boons on the use of my organs.

I used to smoke heavily. I used to drink heavily. I have spent far too many nights and days without sleep or proper nutrition.

I have a whole plethora of old injuries and illnesses (such as malaria and multiple snakebites from Australian elapids ... can't be good for my kidneys and liver...)

But I personally believe that it should be mandatory to be a organ donor (and a blood donor, if you can give blood ... especially if you are plannning to go into surgery you greedy bastards).

It's efficient ... and the world world be a better place if everybody just did one good deed every month or so. Whether giving blood, or volunteering at a soup kitchen. Should be made mandatory ... call it 'civil debt reparation duty'.

Make it a pseudo public holiday, every month or two 10% of the country has to give blood or volunteer 4 hours of their time directly helping their community on a specific day (Such as first wednesday of every second month for Group 'A' n.n

Company paid of course.

Give tax breaks to companies that go above quotas and make it a more common practice written into their employee contracts.

I think most people would enjoy the change of pace, but also open their eyes to the silent suffering of those less fortunate. Not only that but it would build community cohesion.

 

[Gigano]

Yep, I am.

Once everything that is "me" cease to exist the idea that it should be "my" organs is meaningless anyway, and if they can do good to others then putting them in the ground would be a waste.

To do otherwise would I feel be a pointless selfishness beyond the grave (or the result of some religious conviction, apparently never not standing in the way of medical efficiency and ethical evaluations based on help/harm in this world and nothing else)

 

[AndyRock]

Yes, I won't need them when I die

 

[Phoenixlight]

I couldn't answer your poll because there wasn't just a "No" option. I'm not an organ donor simply because I fear that if I was someone would hunt me down and kill me to take my organs for free legally.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

I couldn't answer your poll because there wasn't just a "No" option. I'm not an organ donor simply because I fear that if I was someone would hunt me down and kill me to take my organs for free legally.

Hold on a tick.

A: That would be murder.

B: If they were that desperate to harvest organs I doubt not being a registered organ donor would somehow sway them from taking your organs.

 

[iamthelizardqueen88]

Im not a organ donor but apparently I am a bone marrow donor. I say apparently cause I have no clue how such a thing came to be about a year ago I simply found a registered bone marrow donor card in my wallet with my name and past address on it

 

[Phoenixlight]

I couldn't answer your poll because there wasn't just a "No" option. I'm not an organ donor simply because I fear that if I was someone would hunt me down and kill me to take my organs for free legally.

Hold on a tick.

A: That would be murder.

B: If they were that desperate to harvest organs I doubt not being a registered organ donor would somehow sway them from taking your organs.

I wasn't thinking about a normal person I was thinking more a long the lines of the CIA/MI5/w.e. killing me (making it look like an accident) then informing the local hospital that they need an organ and since my "accident" didn't harm that organ then the hospital would take my organ and help the person in power who needed it by performing the transplant.

 

[jamesworkshop]

My organ is very suitable for donation

no fat chicks

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Yep, I am.

Once everything that is "me" cease to exist the idea that it should be "my" organs is meaningless anyway, and if they can do good to others then putting them in the ground would be a waste.

To do otherwise would I feel be a pointless selfishness beyond the grave (or the result of some religious conviction, apparently never not standing in the way of medical efficiency and ethical evaluations based on help/harm in this world and nothing else)

Elegantly said.

The biggest problem we have in Australia is that some people who do die young and hasve elligible organs end up being denied for the program because the parents say 'no' despite there being a signed document between the person who died and the government asking for permission.

When you go for your licence or ID in Australia, they usually attach the permissive to the end of the document, and one year I forgot to sign it thinking it would just be carried over ...

And it has ...

Because I don't trust my family enough to follow my directions in death I also tell my physicians that 'If I ever do carc it, you have power over my remains to legalise any postmortem medical preceedure ... give away my organs and donate the rest to medical students as a cadaver'.

Even have a letter attached to my will saying so so nobody can question it.

Might as well make the most of me. Besides I get a sick and twisted joy out of knowing that when I die medical students get to stare at my already dissected body for any spare parts they can use ... makes me smile

There's surprisingly very little legal weight behind a signed document of which effects are determined after the signer has deceased in this country.

If governments (atleast here, not sure about the US or various European states) just said 'it's mandatory, get over it' it might just save so many lives and improve the quality of life of so many individuals.

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

Yup. Am also a blood donor, and if I lived close enough to one of the NBS centres, I'd be a platelet donor, too...

Most important thing people who want to be a donor can do is tell your partner/family/next of kin - since in the UK, at least, it's them the doctors'll be asking for permission to harvest your organs.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

I couldn't answer your poll because there wasn't just a "No" option. I'm not an organ donor simply because I fear that if I was someone would hunt me down and kill me to take my organs for free legally.

Hold on a tick.

A: That would be murder.

B: If they were that desperate to harvest organs I doubt not being a registered organ donor would somehow sway them from taking your organs.

I wasn't thinking about a normal person I was thinking more a long the lines of the CIA/MI5/w.e. killing me (making it look like an accident) then informing the local hospital that they need an organ and since my "accident" didn't harm that organ then the hospital would take my organ and help the person in power who needed it by performing the transplant.

That's ... a pretty irrational fear o.o

So the Government would risk such a massive political backlash and possible collaapse of an entire administration .... just to get at a kid's organs? Doubt it's going happen.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

I am not currently. Mostly because the notion of donating my organs never came up during my years of existence. Now though perhaps I might, the case for is made even more poignant considering I am in the health care profession and work with patients five times a day.

And the last time I saw this thread it turned into an absolute shitstorm. I can't wait!

I shall wait with you! Perhaps I can om nom nom on your sandwhich meanwhile?

 

[Phoenixlight]

That's ... a pretty irrational fear o.o

So the Government would riskk such a massive political backlash and possible collaapse of an entire administration .... just to get at a kid's organs? Doubt it's goiing happen.

It is unlikely but it scares me enough to put me off doing it.

 

[kinggingerman]

Organs, blood and bonemarrow because I like helping people I suppose

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

That's ... a pretty irrational fear o.o

So the Government would riskk such a massive political backlash and possible collaapse of an entire administration .... just to get at a kid's organs? Doubt it's goiing happen.

It is unlikely but it scares me enough to put me off doing it.

As opposed to the fear that once you die you could very well save multiple people, but chose not to because of said irrational fear?

In alot of ways I think donating organs is a reward, and less a civil duty. I mean in a way you are getting a second life. A chance for some part of you to physically exist after your physical body has rotted away.

It's win-win in my opinion ... you've died, but some of you gets to live on AND the person receiving your organs gets an improved quality of life ...

Its so rare to find win-win situations in the world that you cannot afford not to take them when they appear.

 

[monkey jesus]

I am so I can use it as a way to impress women "hey baby I'm registered to donate my organ to you".

Then I rip out a kidney and throw it at her.









So ronley

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Nah, I don't see the point. I don't feel like letting some stranger have my organs, I want to be buried with the very things that kept my body functioning throughout my life.

This being said I look forward to a day when we can grow or manufacture shiny new ones anyway.

 

[Slangeveld]

I'm not an organ donor because it requires me to sent a letter saying yes. If you were an organ donor by default and have to say no if you absolutely didn't want to be one, I would be one.

So, I can't be bothered.