Are you an organ donor?

[over5tayer]

i heard some unsettling news a few days ago and have been thinking about it since. Apparently, if you are an organ donor and you are in a serious accident; the priority switches from 'keeping you alive' to 'removing your organs while they are still fresh'.


is there any sense behind this or is it just scaremongering?

[sil3nt]

People will believe anything these days.

[Ferkletastic]

Scaremongering.

What possible motivation could the paramedics etc have to look at you as donor organs instead of a patient?

[The Pastor]

my 'organ' is too large to donate, it just wont fit.

some people think its a blessing, but its a curse.

at least i dont ever need to buy a belt.

[oneofsix]

i heard some unsettling news a few days ago and have been thinking about it since. Apparently, if you are an organ donor and you are in a serious accident; the priority switches from 'keeping you alive' to 'removing your organs while they are still fresh'.


is there any sense behind this or is it just scaremongering?

scaremongering. The best way to keep your organs in good condition to be reused is to keep you alive. The priorities will only change after you are dead. Add to this that your choice to be a donor can be overridden by the next of kin so they have to keep you going long enough to get that sorted as well. It would be a waste of time to let you die cause you are a donor only to find that the loved ones say no and by the time they talk them around the organs are no good. They don't think reuse until after you have no further use.

[Maki]

Nothing pleases me more than using my organ for the benefit of other people. If I can do it, even after I am dead I will be in heaven!

[over5tayer]

People will believe anything these days.

im usually pretty skeptical - but when it comes to my life id rather be sure

scaremongering. The best way to keep your organs in good condition to be reused is to keep you alive. The priorities will only change after you are dead. Add to this that your choice to be a donor can be overridden by the next of kin so they have to keep you going long enough to get that sorted as well. It would be a waste of time to let you die cause you are a donor only to find that the loved ones say no and by the time they talk them around the organs are no good. They don't think reuse until after you have no further use.

ok thanks, im going to book my restricted now so i guess i'll tick the box again.

[Usarka]

I changed my mind after working in a hospital and finding out about the harvesting process.

[over5tayer]

Scaremongering.

What possible motivation could the paramedics etc have to look at you as donor organs instead of a patient?

maybe their dad is dying in the next room and is in need of fresh lung..?

[jazfender]

I heard the doctors, after they've kept you alive... will sew you into a human centipede..at the back! and they target bikers.

[over5tayer]

what have i done - mod you can delete this thread now

[matdaymon]

I changed my mind after working in a hospital and finding out about the harvesting process.

My older brother did the same. I was only a wee fella when he came home from working at Auckland Hospital after witnessing one of them. Apparently he had nightmares for a good few weeks.
I'm a donor though, What will I care? I'm fcking dead! Good luck to them to find something they can use though maybe they could do a hair transplant from my incredibly hairy back?

[Insanity_rules]

I ride like an organ donor!

[GPXchick]

my 'organ' is too large to donate, it just wont fit.

some people think its a blessing, but its a curse.

at least i dont ever need to buy a belt.

LOL. That is all

[bogan]

i heard some unsettling news a few days ago and have been thinking about it since. Apparently, if you are an organ donor and you are in a serious accident; the priority switches from 'keeping you alive' to 'removing your organs while they are still fresh'.


is there any sense behind this or is it just scaremongering?

I heard some G.P.s will give you plasters filled with anesthetic, so when you put one on a boo-boo they can break out the bone-saw and get harvesting.