What would be you opinion of the organ donation process if you or a family member was in need of an organ transplant?
Been there and did it.
We have a terrible shortage of organs because of the stupidity of our government. It is illegal for someone to pay for a donated organ to the family of the deceased. Every day we bury perfectly good organs. Every day patients needing these organs die.
About 50% or more of the people waiting for a liver donation die before a liver is available. The idea of the drives license is great. Sign the card to be a donor and you go to the top of the list. Don’t sign it and you are on the bottom of the list.
My brother received half my liver. This was a desperation move as he had waited for 2 years for a donated liver. They would not take mine until he was close to end stage and they knew he probably would not get a donated liver. Unfortunately he did not make it. Six months later he died from complications of infection. If we had the drivers license program he would have gotten a liver while he was stronger and healthier. He might be alive today.
The other thing that is insane about our transplant procedures is that we give the donated livers to the sickest which have the least chance of survival. Those least sick but with a terminal liver disease should be the ones on the top of the list. They have a better chance of survival. The transplant surgeons know this but there is nothing they can do. It is out of their hands.
I encourage each of you to sign that damn license. It is easy to say that you do not believe in this and it is wrong.
Take a look at you wife, sons, daughters, brothers and parents and picture them slowly dying over several years in a most unpleasant fashion. Dying because of a shortage of organs. Think about it!