Posted on 08/26/2006 9:39:03 AM PDT by The Cuban
You are close, but another side is that your organs will be sold at a huge profit by those who convinced you to donate to a worthy cause. I once was a big proponent of this practice till I saw that some of the organ handlers were the same as those selling baby parts.
I've made my wishes clear. With or without the little box checked, my husband knows that any of my parts are available to save a life or improve a life for someone else.
I also trust my husband to make sure I'm good and dead of the usual causes before such measures are taken.
I won't need my human body where I'm going. :-)
I put NO too.
You may mean "kidney", since they come in pairs, but I'll be happy to take any extra liver off your hands; I could probably use a backup one of these days. ;)
lol!
"I put NO too."
OK. Your choice. I made another choice.
I'm divided on this. I want to help people but organ donation is a gray area for me. But that is just me. I say God Bless those who do selflessly help others.
I don't know if all this is true or not but here are a couple interesting things:
http://www.geocities.com/organdonate/index.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/12/health/main567903.shtml
I and my children don't donate because we can't decide who will get the organs. My body is my own and when the state will not let me do what I want with it, then I will go to the grave with it.
I hope all who read this, including you, will notify the state that you are not going to organ donate until you can designate who gets the organs. If you don't care what the state decides to do with your organs, then go ahead and let a bureaucracy make the decision. We all know how good the govt. is with their decisions that supercede ours.
Selling baby parts? What parts? Who does that?
As an afterthought, my husband does tissue flights... taking the nurses and doctors to where organs are to be harvested and flying the organs back.
I can't count how many times he's been called for a flight then put on "on again, off again" hold because the patient hasn't expired. Nobody is hastening anything, it's actually the exact opposite. He's waited up to 24 hours before to launch for one of these flights after initial notification.
I sure could use an extra liver.
"Great idea!! I can donate my appendicts and tonsils and my extra liver (cause I only need one)."
And you only have one. Perhaps you're thinking of your kidneys.
Organ Donation is just that, a donation.
Which way you decide is completely voluntary and up to you no matter what your reason, which means "just because" is good enough.
No guilt need be involved.
hmmm, i know things vary from one location to another, but
i would think checking the yes box would override your familys
wishes. it's your body and you've made your wishes public.
i could be wrong on that tho.
secondly, im pretty certain you would not be removed from life
support, if harvesting your organs was their intent.
"I hope all who read this, including you, will notify the state that you are not going to organ donate until you can designate who gets the organs. "
Who would you exclude from getting your organs? I guess I don't understand your position. I'd expect my organs to go to the next person on the list for that organ, if mine matched.
Who would you exclude?
Just to be argumentative, these teams fail in the long run with every person on this earth. We all die. How much money would be paid to someone who allowed a "hopeless" case to die, if a person with $10,000 or $50,000 was to offer it. OOPSY, we just lost another one. Send it downstairs.
You seem eager to keep your organs away from certain people. If you mean, instead, that you want to give to a certain person, you can certainly do that with live organ donation. A friend of ours gave one of her kidney's to a coworker of her husband's. The man was from a family with awful kidneys, and his were going fast. She designated him as the recipient and they both went in for the surgery at the same time.
Forget it - I put my name in first! :)
"I am a smoker, smokers are considered lower than snake bellies when it comes to a place in line for an organ donation.....so if I am going to be discriinated against in the possibility of receiving a life saving transplant, I will be just as discriminatory when it comes to offering the same. "
Smoking increases the chance that your body will reject an organ. People who don't smoke are more likely to survive than people who do, that's simply a medical fact. All decisions about who gets organs are based on number one, who needs them the most, in other words, who's going to die the soonest without one, and number two, who is likely to benefit from receiving one. People with certain types of cancers, for example, are generally not eligible for transplants because the cancer is likely to recur. It's a question of distributing a resource that is in short supply to those for whom it is most likely to succeed. Discrimination, value judgements about who "deserves" an organ more, don't enter into it.
If more people were organ donors, fewer of these terrible choices would have to be made.
I like the way you thought this through! :)
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