I am NOT a donor, am I EDIT: a bad person? EDIT!

[Hairetos]

of course not. Because when I take over the world, donation won't be an option.

Your body belongs to the state now. Thank you.

In all seriousness, I'd call you an asshole and give you no organs if you needed them. The list is short enough for people who do give and get, so you get no place.

 

[Dags90]

How about this.

Register as an organ donor. Then I'll make sure you're armed with a big ass stick after you die. That way, if you feel uncomfortable about it at the last minute, you can fight off those pesky zombies organ harvesters.

 

[JoeThree]

Hey, if it gives you peace of mind in life to know that when you die, which could realistically happen at any moment, you'll get to rot with all your bits and pieces, then more power to yah. Personally, I find serenity in knowing someone else might get a few extra years from my tar filled lungs, or cholesterol clogged heart. I happen to find the idea of someone having my eyes, however, a bit unnerving, and so those are the one body part I won't donate. It's your body, your choice... unless it comes to the topic of over eating or smoking, then you're a monster. And gross.

 

[Crimsane]

I'm a bit weird in that I believe our ownership over our bodies ends when we die. There's no "me" left in the corpse, so it's not really "mine" anymore. Thus, I have no issue with organs that would be worm fodder anyway going to someone living. I mean, I don't have problems with people taking worldly possessions after I die, since I don't need/use them anymore either. Why should I care who takes pieces of a corpse I no longer use?

 

[lucky_sharm]

Just a quick question to anyone here that feels like answering. If I were to donate my kidney, like have it surgically removed of course. Would I be able to...have it back in case I needed it again?

 

[Berethond]

Just a quick question to anyone here that feels like answering. If I were to donate my kidney, like have it surgically removed of course. Would I be able to...have it back in case I needed it again?

No, but you shouldn't need it. If you have even a chance of kidney failure they won't let you donate.

 

[WOPR]

I am not an organ donor. The only reason being that I feel comfortable with it.

Though if I'd be in danger I would really appreciate getting someone's donor organ..

Am I a bad person?

Please be objective, I'm just wondering

EDIT:
To elaborate, I would feel kind of desecrated if people started to cut in my body, however one of my life goals is to save someone from death..

I started this thread to get some opinions and to see if anyone could change my mind, Thanks for the reactions so far!

Also: Is it possible to put terms up when you sign for donor? For example if I'd just want to give a kidney?

(Semi-changed my mind so far )

I've been told that by not donating blood I kill 3 people each time

considering that when my friend donated blood; she almost died in the process

and that the last person I know to get a blood transfer was getting it because I smashed his head after he tried to kill me (loooooooooong story)

well in short...

it's all your choice, you're not good you're not bad you're you

don't let people pressure you

but just make your own decision

I'd only donate an organ or blood if it was going to a close friend of mine (being that my families gone)

 

[lumenadducere]

You're going to be dead whenever organ harvesting time comes. What on Earth are you going to need your organs for?

And no, if you donate your kidney while you're alive, you can't have it back. It's not like they just take your kidney and keep it in a jar somewhere. Organs don't last all that long unless they're transplanted, so they wouldn't take it unless you had gone through the process of signing up so they could match you with a person who needs it. Once you did that then they'd go through with the surgery at some point down the line and it'd be removed from you, then transplanted to the person who needs it immediately after. So if you were to want it back, they'd have to remove it from the person who got it, and that's just a horrible thing because then that person would basically be facing the same problem they were in before you came along.

 

[lumenadducere]

I've been told that by not donating blood I kill 3 people each time

considering that when my friend donated blood; she almost died in the process

and that the last person I know to get a blood transfer was getting it because I smashed his head after he tried to kill me (loooooooooong story)

well in short...

it's all your choice, you're not good you're not bad you're you

don't let people pressure you

but just make your own decision

I'd only donate an organ or blood if it was going to a close friend of mine (being that my families gone)

That's ridiculous, you don't kill anyone if you don't donate blood. I'm a regular blood donor and I support blood donation wholeheartedly, but whoever made that claim was being dumb.

Out of curiosity, how did your friend almost die? They don't take anywhere near enough for that to be a risk. Or did she have some other blood condition that they didn't know about? Because that's the only scenario I can think of in which blood donation is even remotely risky.

 

[QuantumWalker]

the one thing that we as humans are guarenteed from birth to death is a body, whatever state it may be in.

It is our god given right to decide what to do with our body not only in life but in death.

So which is it. Is it from birth to death or is it beyond death?

To the group of people that suggest that the government make organ donation an 'opt out' system I ask this. Should any governing body be allowed the authority decide what happens to the denizens of its land without their permission? I say no. Making the default system one that allows my organs to be removed violates my human right to my own body.

I guess I did not make myself clear, I apologize. My argument is that because we born with our bodies it is our right to choose what happens to it. This includes post mortem situations. This goes along the lines of cremation vs. burial. The deceased has the choice before dying to choose how they want their body to be interred.

As to my statement about the 'opt out' system some people propose. Even if the government were to impose a minimum age requirement it still takes a pretty big decision away from the people. And after reviewing the forum there have been cases where non organ donors were not even presented to option to choose at places like the DMV. Whose to say that a similar occurance won't happen if the opt-out system was adopted.(To be fair that last statement is more wild mass guessing, but a valid complaint)

 

[WOPR]

That's ridiculous, you don't kill anyone if you don't donate blood. I'm a regular blood donor and I support blood donation wholeheartedly, but whoever made that claim was being dumb.

Out of curiosity, how did your friend almost die? They don't take anywhere near enough for that to be a risk. Or did she have some other blood condition that they didn't know about? Because that's the only scenario I can think of in which blood donation is even remotely risky.

The whole school pressure to donate blood was the statement "When you donate blood that blood saves 3 lives, so if you don't donate blood you're killing 3 people"

(on a side note our school has the highest donation rate in the state... maybe that pressure helps)

and as for my friend... it was a new nurse and the nurse screwed up and bumped the needle the wrong way... then the nurse panicked (maybe she was afraid of blood? if so that's really stupid to get that job)

I don't know but she lost a lot of blood... then they had to use her other arm to put blood back in her... poor girl

EDIT: maybe I shouldn't say "girl" because she's 2 years older then me

 

[SpecklePattern]

No. But you are a hypocrit.

To be honest I think organ donation should be an opt-out scheme, rather than opt in; most people don't sign up due to sheer laziness, or because they are paranoid about urban myths where doctors harvest them for organs alive.

Yes. This sounds purely hypocritical to me too. I mean, when I am dead, you can cut to as small pieces as you please (the doctors that is, not you, you sick sick reader).

And wow! I am pretty happy with this:

So basicly, recently in Finland we have passed a law that says the person that is dead is organ donor in default. The will of that person is still heard through his/her closest peoples if that person denied the organ doning. If the opinion of that person is not heard of, that person is a organ donor.

So basicly that rules out the lazy people. Quite nice in my opinion.

 

[Actual]

If you don't like the idea of losing your organs, donate your cadaver to a medical school.

The baby doctors will have much learning and laughs cutting all your bits apart and then when they're done they'll roughly reassemble you and you can be buried/cremated/fired into space more or less intact.

Sounds strange but it's even more useful than donating your organs, you'll give two med. students their first knowledge of practical anatomy and they'll likely go on to save many lives.

 

[BrionJames]

Eh, who cares there's way too many people living on this planet anyway. No one deserves my super-badass organs anyway.

 

[tharglet]

I have the code on my driving licence (uk) that says I'm a donor

Really don't care what happens to my body after I'm dead. S'not like I'll be usin' it any more. Use it, cremate it, bury it, eat it if you really want Heck, throw it to the wolves, there won't be any of me around to care.

Might as well be useful to someone after I'm gone

 

[ShakyFiend]

Arnt you missing the point slightly? Morals and what you care about are not the important thing, the important thing is that someone somewhere gets to go on living. Sure what you believe matters and im not for obligatory organ giving, but ranking your personal beliefs above someone's life? Seems a tad selfish don't you think?

 

[Digikid]

I think of it this way.

My organs are MINE. I was brought up to believe against this sort of crap as I perfer to be buried INTACT.

There is nothing hypocritical to it. So to this that think otherwise can suck it.