Organ donors

[stanko]

Well its the season for giving so I thought I would mention the organ donor thing. Not everyone is lucky all the time.

Sadly everyday people come to grief in all sorts of ways. Many people are donors on their driver licenses, but forget to remind their familys of their intentions , the result is so many good organs being buried or burned.

Maybe its a good time to talk to your loved ones about what if.

Maybe the best thing to do is ride safe and be a KBer next year as well.

Thanks
Mike Stein

[PrincessBandit]

Excellent suggestion stanko. Must admit I've only just recently had donor put on my licence as I was unsure how my kids would take the concept when they were a bit younger. Now they're in their late teens we've talked about it as a family and they have a much broader understanding and acceptance of these important issues.
Thank you for bringing this topic to our attention and reminding us that we still have the opportunity to potentially make a life-assisting change to someone in desperate need once our number is up.

[Choco]

If I come off then I'm probably not going to be using them, so might as well let someone who needs them have 'em! I'm a donor as is most of my family.
What comes around goes around people, if you horde your bits then who's going to share with you?

But saying that - stay fit and ride safe and so you can keep using them!
Mike

[homer]

sorry to be a perty pooper
but what mine is mine and it for free
but it is at a price

[jtzzr]

Not too take the piss out of quite a serious topic, but whatever organs I have (I`m no doctor) are pretty much toasted. But I do think that people with fully functioning organs should look at donating , if the unmentionable should happen.

[McDuck]

I am. Dad is and mum is to. By the time i am that farr gone we may as well save the bits we can for others.

In the same way if i was to smash my bike if it had a part sombody else needed that was still good then fine by me.

[sunhuntin]

if they can scavenge anything good, they can have it, be it flesh or metal. think im still listed as a doner on my license... will have to make sure they put it on the new one.

[Rhino]

Well its the season for giving so I thought I would mention the organ donor thing. Not everyone is lucky all the time.

Sadly everyday people come to grief in all sorts of ways. Many people are donors on their driver licenses, but forget to remind their familys of their intentions , the result is so many good organs being buried or burned.

Maybe its a good time to talk to your loved ones about what if.

Maybe the best thing to do is ride safe and be a KBer next year as well.

Thanks
Mike Stein

As Mike has pointed out, a couple of things that potential donors need to be aware of.

Firstly, your organs can only be used in the case of a "sudden death" (ie accident/homicide/heart attack etc.) If you have passed away due to an illness, you cannot be a donor, even if some organs were not affected by your illness.

Secondly, do make sure that your family knows of your wishes. The next of kin have the final say as to wether you can be used as a donor, regardless of what you may have specified in your will or drivers license. If you stated "yes" in your will and a spouse/child says "no" donation will not happen.

[sunhuntin]

doesnt the body still have to be living at time of removal as well? ie, if you die at the scene of an accident, they cant be used as by the time you get to hosp, they have been dead too long? or is that only for certain parts, like heart?

[Donor]

The person I am, ain't this chubby flesh suit I wear round all day.

It's the spark inside me that causes me to wake, eat, sleep and fart as well as ride a motorbike and other funky shit.

So yeah, all bits for others after I've popped me corks!

[Mikkel]

There's no way I'm going to list myself as a donor on my license. However, my girlfriend knows that if I am beyond the chance of a decent existence they can have the lot...

There was a case not too many years ago where a young man didn't get all of the chances he should have had - simply because he was a donor and there was a part they were really needing at that hospital. So, no, I'll carry a card saying I'm not giving anything away.

If I should happen to get into a bad accident they can have my organs as soon as they've talked to my family and given me all the chances I should have.

[James Deuce]

I'm at a loss as to how we can describe organ transplant technology as successful. If we drove vehicles that were analogous to organ transplants 50% of them would explode after being exposed to the technology and none of them would be functioning after 10 years or so.

By KB standards most of the people lining up for organ transplants don't deserve them anyway, and of the ones that do deserve it the organ transplant process kills enough of them to have made Pol Pot proud.

[Bass]

I'm at a loss as to how we can describe organ transplant technology as successful. If we drove vehicles that were analogous to organ transplants 50% of them would explode after being exposed to the technology and none of them would be functioning after 10 years or so.

By KB standards most of the people lining up for organ transplants don't deserve them anyway, and of the ones that do deserve it the organ transplant process kills enough of them to have made Pol Pot proud.

I have a niece who would otherwise have been dead 20 years ago who would disagree with you.
I believe that it is the treatment of last resort and in most cases the recipients have little time left if untreated. Consequently, I think your comment about the treatment killing half would be better read as the treatment saving half who would otherwise be goners.

[Blue Velvet]

On the one hand your donated organ could help someone genuinely deserving.

On the other your donated organ could end up going to a muppet who killed or injured someone while driving/riding under the influence.

[Angusdog]

I'd love to have my organ buried , but my family are well aware how I like to go the extra mile. If bits of me keep on going even though most of me is dog tucker, so be it.

Organ transplants only a stop gap measure until new bodies can be grown, as in the documentary The Island with Ewan McGreor and Scarlett Johanssen.