Are you an organ donor?

[Steam]

Mea Culpa, I should have know better, being a REPOST nark myself.

[Joni]

Nah Steam, Ixion has a point, it is relevant...
I have just noticed a lot of "re-discussion" as of late... but I also forget that there are 2000 more members than there were the last time it was done.

[Sniper]

No, Im a selfish bugger and Im taking all my parts to the grave with me

[klingon]

I'm listed as an organ donor for the reasons others have already covered. I've been listed ever since the option became available.

I've also been a blood donor for many years, so people don't have to wait until I die to benefit from me. Started donating whole blood when I was 16, moved to plasma later (they put the red cells back into you so your recovery time is much quicker).

But now they don't want my blood any more Picky people! Wouldn't have thought a little bit of malignant melanoma was such a big deal!

Yep, I'm all for sharing my bits around

[Curious_AJ]

im a donor, i want others to benefit from my death coz i CERTAINLY dont benefit from my life!! *jumps off bridge over traffic*

[Guitana]

No ones touching my organ!!!!!!

[klingon]

im a donor, i want others to benefit from my death coz i CERTAINLY dont benefit from my life!! *jumps off bridge over traffic*

Don't jump, AJ!
You'll mess up your organs and they'll be no use at all (except maybe as steak and kidney pie... or liver and bacon... or black pudding... )
Oh alright, who am I to stop you doing something you really want to do?
I'll bring the frying pan.

[Curious_AJ]

lolz, that means you'll benefit.. and no, if i jump it wont damage them, but possibly the cars will! thats probably not the way i'd go though, i have a feeling i'll be shot ^_^ just ask joni there, im rather "abnoxious"

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Im a donar.. but if and when I die, I don't think any one will wont me parts.. probably want be anything let...

[0arbreaka]

Im listed as an organ donor, but im still not completely sure about my decision, I suppose it makes bugger all difference if im dead.

[Coyote]

I believe that there are technical type problems here too, though. My (very limited - correction invited) understanding is that there is a very short amount of time available for transplantation of the organs , with the clock starting to tick from the moment when a strong effective pulse ceases . Note that at that point the donor may not yet be dead!

So a person who dies at the roadside will not be suitable for "harvesting" - and often someone who dies in intensive care will not be either because their organs will have been damaged by the process that led to their death.Unfortunately most people who die in hospital after a road crash die of general organ failure. And the two most "saleable" organs, the kidney and heart are the organs that fail.

And even if someone dies under "suitable" circumstances the hospital must know of a target recipient "ready and waiting" .

And permission must be obtained from grieving relatives at a time of very high emotional stress. Even people who might be willing, at a less fraught time, to allow a deceased love one's organs to be used , will often respond with a "oh no no - please not now" when asked at the height of their grief. It is actually easier emotionally to give permission for ones own organs to be harvested , than it is to give permission to harvest those of someone you love who has just tragically died. And of course it is not a time when medical staff want to be "pushy" .

Incidentally, I understand that the hospital staff do not have access to the deceased wishes stated on the driver licence ie the doctors don't know that you ticked yes.

I had thought of all of that, but even so it seems like a minisule amount of people actually being 'harvested' when there seems to be so much death

[Quartermile]

im a donor, i want others to benefit from my death coz i CERTAINLY dont benefit from my life!! *jumps off bridge over traffic*

You know why your life 'sucks', 'cos you don't have a bike!!

You know why you would die if you jumped off a bridge over traffic, 'cos of friggen cages

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Im listed as an organ donor, but im still not completely sure about my decision, I suppose it makes bugger all difference if im dead.

Thats my thought... I dead so I don't really care

[Trudes]

Yep I ticked the donor box and must inform the loved ones to let them have whatever they want should it be of any use. I tried several times to give blood, but I tend to start to faint after about a test tube of blood has been pumped out, Would be great blood for anemic people though as it is very iron rich apparently!

[avgas]

Im not listed as an organ donor, not really because i am against organ donating or anything.
I think they are awesome people.
Im just too scared to tick that box, its like signing a death warrent or something.
Dont like will's for the same reason.