Poll: Are you a registered organ donor? Why/why not?
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I am not.
The only reason is a tiny portion of paranoia having a party in my head.
I keep thinking...if I'm a donor...and I'm (mostly) at deaths door, and my organs can save 3 lives...will the doctors motivation to keep ME alive be as great?
I have no problems at ALL giving away my organs or whole body for that matter, after death...but potentially making my own chances of survival worse for the benefit of people I'll never even meet? I'm not that good.
The only reason is a tiny portion of paranoia having a party in my head.
I keep thinking...if I'm a donor...and I'm (mostly) at deaths door, and my organs can save 3 lives...will the doctors motivation to keep ME alive be as great?
I have no problems at ALL giving away my organs or whole body for that matter, after death...but potentially making my own chances of survival worse for the benefit of people I'll never even meet? I'm not that good.
I utterly unsarcastically congratulate and thank you for doing this. More people should.Kyoufuu said:
As for the question: I am an organ donor, ever since I worked in a hospital for a couple of month (wanted to be a doctor till then, since then... not anymore) and saw that organ donations are needed and people regularly and tragically die because there are not enough.
Same reason I donate blood whenever possible.
Doesn´t Sweden have one of those opt-out gigs going on ?Evilsanta said:
Huh, did not know it was that easy for us. I've been meaning to ever since my uh... suicide attempt. :/ Felt afterwards that I was wasting my squishy parts, but as I said didn't realise it was that easy. I will endeavour to do so asap. If I descend into the depths again there's no reason why someone else can't keep a part of me.Kyoufuu said:
Li'l thing called the Hippocratic Oath (such as the line "I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability"), not to mention lawsuits, are great motivations for doctors to do everything in their power to keep you alive.tzimize said:
Protip: do it now, it isn't going to happen on its own. You have the time to be on The Escapist, you have the time to sign up as an organ donor. Assuming your country has online registration.Crazie_Guy said:
Good on you. I believe Australia has the lowest rate of organ donation and blood donation amongst developed countries.Kyoufuu said:
Though I have no idea why.
They keep turning me away when I try to donate organs.
Apparently you're only supposed to donate your own which is fucking stupid, I NEED MINE.
Apparently you're only supposed to donate your own which is fucking stupid, I NEED MINE.
The thing why I'm not a donator and might never be one is, that if you are a doctor and have 2 patients, one needing some kind of organ very badly in the next few hours or he will die, the other one being an organ donator with a chance of survival of maybe 10%, or even less, will you actively do everything to keep this person alive, maybe only for a few more hours on the costs of another live? I know the law says you have to, but how strictly is that followed?
No because the system in Australia is both ineffective and rarely enforced. Even if you're a register donor your family can veto it.
Even so, when I was 14 I got sat down by my father and he said "(blank) I don't care what want or feel,if you die and I can donate your organs, I will, because it's means at least a tiny part of you gets to live on in someone else". So yeah that's the plan guess...
Even so, when I was 14 I got sat down by my father and he said "(blank) I don't care what want or feel,if you die and I can donate your organs, I will, because it's means at least a tiny part of you gets to live on in someone else". So yeah that's the plan guess...
I would gladly donate my organs. Even while I'm still alive, I could pop a kidney or an eye in the mail for someone if they need it. I don't need them that much. It's only that I haven't got around registering; as you'd have to print out one. I'll just take my chances of not doing until I've printed that somewhere.
Kyoufuu said:"Li'l thing called the Hippocratic Oath (such as the line "I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability"), not to mention lawsuits, are great motivations for doctors to do everything in their power to keep you alive."tzimize said:
And? Its just words. I can swear I'll never kill and shoot a guy the next second. Doctors are just people too. Can you honestly say there are no doctors on earth that would consider letting a patient that will probably die anyway, just die to save 3 other people?
Also, not every country has a legal system like the US (thank goodness). Lawsuits are not that common in my country
Edit: Whoops. Something got messed up on the quoting. Your stuff is in ""s.
When I'm old enough to register I will do.
If I'm dead I don't see any reason why I would need organs, might as well save someones life with them instead.
If I'm dead I don't see any reason why I would need organs, might as well save someones life with them instead.
