Organ Doning

[Andreina]

Are you an organ donor?
Would you become one?
What are your thoughts on this issue?



I am a registered organ donor in the UK. In my home country I don't have to be registered as all bodies are automatically organ donors unless explicitely stated (Anti-Organ-Doning Card).
I am an organ donor because I think that my (to say it cheezily) 'moving on' can help other people.

 

[BlazeofLife]

I agree, once I'm gone I'll have no further use for this body (not that I use it for much but typing at this point anyway) and I've signed to have it donated for organ transplants and medical experimentation.
Might as well try to help somebody else live, even if I can't, right?

 

[T.H. Oughts]

I ticked the box to pass them on to the next fellow but I have a feeling they will turn them down cause I'm gonna live to be old

Reasons they will not want my body:

1. Lungs will be stuffed from smoking by the time I'm 86.

2. The elastisity will have gone "completely" in the boobs.

3. My eyes are stuffed now... imagine them when I'm 86

4. My bones will be brittle from age.

5. My skin will lost all it's elasticity.

6. At 86 I hope to be completely fucked and will need a reboar anyway before it can be put to use again.

7. The kidneys will be well and truely stuffed from eating to much chocolate all my life.


But hey, I might have a couple of spare chins they can use

 

[Calamity Jane]

Yeah... i'm pretty sure they won't be doing me any good. Not all that sure they'd do anyone else much good either though.

 

[Cheyenne]

In my home country I don't have to be registered as all bodies are automatically organ donors unless explicitely stated (Anti-Organ-Doning Card).

Really? There is such a place? I like it!

Yes, I have signed my drivers license to be an organ donor. Once I am dead, I don't need them and someone else can have them if they want them. It's the "ultimate" charitable contribution.

 

[mig]

If any of my bits still work they're there for the taking.

 

[MidnightAngel]

Yes, I have expressed my wishes to be an organ donor by stating it on my drivers license and also by letting my family know in no uncertain terms that this is my wish.

FYI: Even if you designated on your license that you wish to donate, your family will have the final say after your death. Make sure they understand your wishes!

 

[bluespoke]

With only one kidney, I suppose I am a potential recipient.

However, they can anything of mine they find useful (guess that means they'll reject the brain ).

Its about time the UK had an op out system in stead of opt in.

 

[Bindii]

I'm all for organ donation as I watched a friend die while on the waiting list for a new kidney....

 

[Andreina]

Its about time the UK had an op out system in stead of opt in.

i absolutely agree with you there.
my position on the topic is that when im dead i won't need my heart anymore, nor my liver, nor my pancreas, nor my kidneys, nor my lungs, nor my corneas.... although I wouldnt want to have limbs sawn off for transplants as they recently did.

 

[Sorsha]

ok...

This may sound infantile but i have a problem with thinking people will disect me after i die...maybe its a snow white thing. i dont know!


I guess to help i would still be one tho.

 

[tigerjen]

When I first got my driver's license, I did not want to
be a donor, but upon renewal of it several years later,
I decided to become an organ donor.....sure, I'd rather
have my whole body intact when I pass on, but it would
make me feel good that if my heart, lungs, eyes, and more
would go to those who need them the most.


tigerjen

 

[Nigel]

I've been a donor since age 18 - almost (gulp) 22 years. I figure that if part of my body that I won't be needing will help save or improve someone's life, why not? My mom saw the donor sticker on my driver's license one time and freaked out. She didn't like the thought of my being "cut up" and that I would be dead, but someone else would live. Couldn't make her see reason, but she's dealt with it....

Here's a song that you might enjoy.....sung to a bright country beat....

"Please Don't Bury Me" by John Prine

Woke up this morning
Put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen and died
And oh what a feeling!
When my soul
Went thru the ceiling
And on up into heaven I did ride
When I got there they did say
John, it happened this way
You slipped upon the floor
And hit your head
And all the angels say
Just before you passed away
These were the very last words
That you said:

Chorus:
Please don't bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
No, I'd druther have "em" cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size

Give my stomach to Milwaukee
If they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box
Just get "em" out of here
Venus de Milo can have my arms
Look out! I've got your nose
Sell my heart to the junkman
And give my love to Rose

Repeat Chorus

Give my feet to the footloose
Careless, fancy free
Give my knees to the needy
Don't pull that stuff on me
Hand me down my walking cane
It's a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye

Repeat Chorus


I LOVE that song.....

Nigel

 

[alltherage]

I've been an organ donor since 18 and I see no reason to change that. My body is the ship I travel in during this incarnation. I have no use for it once I am free of it.

 

[kotori]

give 'til it hurts

They can take anything they want, but I doubt there will be much they want (unless I accidentally step in front of a bus this afternoon). This has been discussed in the family, so when they come with the forms to the next of kin, there should be no questions.

Here's a song that you might enjoy.....sung to a bright country beat....
"Please Don't Bury Me" by John Prine
Nigel

Regarding that song, there's another one, with the same measure, an old-timey, Mother Jones-y, labor-organizing-type song. I only remember the some.

Bury me in my overalls
or in my beat up jeans,
Bury me in my overalls
not in my gaberdines,
Give my suit to Uncle Jake,
He can wear it at my wake:
Bury Me in My Overalls.

The undertaker will get my pay,
the ground will get my bones,
and what is left will have to go
for one of them fancy stones,
but this suit it cost me two weeks' pay
so let it live another day,
Bury Me in My Overalls.

 

[Simply Me]

So glad to see that there are so many donors amoung us. I, too, am a donor, and they can take whatever they want. Cornea, skin for burn victims, etc. I have to go and speak with family at least once a week about this issue, and I am always so glad that this topic was already talked about before the person died. It makes my job a little easier. Every time I approach the surviving family, I get a little sick at my stomach, then I remember all the people that will survive if they say yes. I also understand, and respect, those that can't seem to bring themselves to do it.
It's a tough decision for everyone.

 

[perks]

I'm not even allowed to donate blood, the most I could do would be donate my body to science. But my organs are unusable, I believe. I'm not sure though.

 

[Guest]

I am. It's not like I'm going to need them anymore...

 

[bluelight]

Like Wings fan said If I dont need them anymore sure take what ya want.

But in Canada you have to cary a little paper card in your wallet to verfiy your desision. Well mine is worn out now so I should put a sticker on my back telling them it is ok.

 

[Cibo]

I'm a registered organ doner. Hell, I have no use for them when I'm dead, and if it can save someone's life...why defy them of that?

 

[Vinny]

Doner

I am not sure if it is a state or federal law, but anytime someone dies under my watch, I am legally respomsible to call the organ donation hotline. I have made hundreds of calls and I have only given them one. There are many reasons for this. One is the lack of voluntary donors and th other is the deceased is excluded from being a donor candidate due to age or condition. I have become a donor only after realizing the shortage of donors. If my death can save a life then I would be satisfied in death.