Organ Donor i have a issue with it?

[Zeema]

Note: i have nothing against it i think Organ Donor's are great people i just have a issue with it.

Now i had to get Photo ID so i can go out on my 18th and i saw 'do you want to be a Organ Donar?' [its the gist of it]

and i wondered will i be able to make restrictions to who my organs go too. But you can't according to my roommate and i can't really find anything to say, except some stupid thing in which a guy didn't want his organs to go to a Black person. but none the less.

I WOULD give my organs to certain people, BUT I don't want my Lungs to got to a smoker who smoked all his life and is now ill. they can take my organs sure but i don't want it to go to someone who killed there organs with liquor drugs or Smoking. What's to stop them ruining my organs?

So what do you think about Organ Donoring?
Do you agree with me?
Shud there be restrictions on Organ Donoring like make it only family/friends can have organs?

 

[SonofaJohannes]

Well, I learnt from watching Desperate Housewives (At least I think it was Desperate Housewives) that you could give your kidneys to specific people. I don't know about other organs, but I don't see why it would be any different.

 

[Thrager]

That is the idea of the whole 'Anonymous' aspect of it. So people can't find out their dead daughters lungs go to some smoker, it's a coverage for the person getting them.
The only way to stop them taking your organs and giving them to someone who doesn't quite deserve is not be an organ donor essentially.

The whole restrictions is a fair enough idea I see your point, but unfortunately it just wouldn't work.
I agree and disagree with you on the matter itself.

 

[Simple Bluff]

I don't mean to sound like smartarse, but I think I'd be too dead to care. And besides, if there's even a small chance it may go to a child who genuinly needs it, it's worth it.

And anyway, if you don't fancy the idea of donating organs to people, I think you can choose to donate them to scientists for research/teaching and such.

EDIT: Just noticed this: HAPPEH 18th BURTHDAI! CELEBRASHUN TIEMZ!

 

[SnowyGamester]

Better not tick lungs and liver then, since in all likelihood those are the people who will inevitably get them.

 

[Woodsey]

Pretty sure people who self-inflict the damage are put lower on the waiting list.

And if you're dead, why would you care anyway who they go to?

 

[NightlyNews]

Meh I think a lot of the time your organs won't actually be useable by the time they can take them.

They mine as well change the organ donor list to the cadaver list for med students.

 

[Daniel Holland]

Isn't there a whole list of requirements though? As in, the people who's organs may have failed naturally would be higher up than those that destroyed them with alcohol/smoking?
And the chances of one of them getting it would still be slim, because doesn't it take months before it's acceptable for them to be on the list? Chances are they'd die before they got them...

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I WOULD give my organs to certain people, BUT I don't want my Lungs to got to a smoker who smoked all his life and is now ill. they can take my organs sure but i don't want it to go to someone who killed there organs with liquor drugs or Smoking. What's to stop them ruining my organs?

People who require organ transplants due to self-inflicted habits (smoking, drinking etc) are not put on the transplant list until they have proved that they have kicked their original habit, so that's nothing you need to worry about.

And yes, I fully agree with organ donation.

 

[exampleAccount]

I think that while it is preferable that your organs go to people that deserve them, it shouldn't stop you from donating just because it isn't guaranteed. Think about it, if you don't donate no one will get your organs, if you do there is at least a chance someone decent will get them. It doesn't matter too much anyway, once your dead you won't care.

 

[Matt Oliver]

i agree there should be restrictons but it wouldnt work like previously said

That is the idea of the whole 'Anonymous' aspect of it. So people can't find out their dead daughters lungs go to some smoker, it's a coverage for the person getting them.
The whole restrictions is a fair enough idea I see your point, but unfortunately it just wouldn't work.

 

[Rednog]

Well, I learnt from watching Desperate Housewives that you could give your kidneys to specific people. I don't know about other organs, but I don't see why it would be any different.

You're talking about something you can give while living. But the OP is talking about the organ donor card you get on your license, which is any and all organs that are still good should you demise in an untimely way.
Those are given indiscriminately and you can't decide who they go to, though if you had a family member who needed it at that time they would probably get it just because the tissue type would be a close match. But you don't get to say who gets it because doctors who perform the transplants and take care of patients aren't allowed to judge people based on their life choices.

OT:
As a person who actually needs an organ, it is a tough situation to be in, everyone wants to live, nobody wants to die because someone judged them and ruled against them. I personally need a kidney, and I've never done anything that would progress the deterioration of my kidneys, but I could not live with myself if I got put over another person because they happened to drink and sped up the deterioration a bit and that person happened to die. Actually since learning that a lot of people die on waiting lists for organs I took myself off it and am refusing an organ transplant. I cannot live with the notion that I would live over another person.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Note: i have nothing against it i think Organ Donor's are great people i just have a issue with it.

Now i had to get Photo ID so i can go out on my 18th and i saw 'do you want to be a Organ Donar?' [its the gist of it]

and i wondered will i be able to make restrictions to who my organs go too. But you can't according to my roommate and i can't really find anything to say, except some stupid thing in which a guy didn't want his organs to go to a Black person. but none the less.

I WOULD give my organs to certain people, BUT I don't want my Lungs to got to a smoker who smoked all his life and is now ill. they can take my organs sure but i don't want it to go to someone who killed there organs with liquor drugs or Smoking. What's to stop them ruining my organs?

So what do you think about Organ Donoring?
Do you agree with me?
Shud there be restrictions on Organ Donoring like make it only family/friends can have organs?

The problem is that such restricting of organs would give donor the power of who lived or died. I don't know how long organs keep, but think, if somebody that needed your organ and you were the only match, but they didn't meet your requirements, what happens next? Well they would stay on the donor list, and your organ(s) would stay in storage somewhere. But lets say that your organs weren't a match for someone right before they started to go bad, you organs would go to waste.

Now lets go to that person that was a match but was a "bad" person for some reason. That person wasn't able to find a donor in time and died. So effectively, you have some part in the fact that person didn't survive. Besides, you never know if the person is going to change his or her life around, then it can also point out that this "bad" person might go on to do something important for society, but because of your restrictions, such and important thing didn't happen.

The whole thing is bigger than just, well that person was a smoker and doesn't deserve to live because he or she made a wrong choice in life. Sometimes smoking starts at a young and impressionable age, and then it takes hold and then the person can't stop. I don't think some people realize how hard it is to quit(This coming from the experience of what it took for my dad to quit smoking).

It is a deep subject that can't be treated with such selfish thoughts.(No offense, it is just how I see it.) So, no I don't agree, it must stay anonymous, besides they don't give out organs willy-nilly; there are many rules, restrictions, and stipulations before a person can be accepted onto a donor list.

 

[Zeema]

Pretty sure people who self-inflict the damage are put lower on the waiting list.

And if you're dead, why would you care anyway who they go to?

There My Organs i prefer it to go to someone worthy like children not some smoking drug addict.

 

[The_Decoy]

Well I'm circumventing this problem by smoking now.
That way my lungs won't go to some no good smoker who needs a new set

I'm willing to have all my organs, and if my family agrees, my cadaver, used to save lives and do scientific research. I mean I'm not going to be using it, might as well do some good.

 

[mad825]

Eh, I will be dead by then so why should I give a fuck?

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Pretty sure people who self-inflict the damage are put lower on the waiting list.

And if you're dead, why would you care anyway who they go to?

There My Organs i prefer it to go to someone worthy like children not some smoking drug addict.

Of course it is hypothetical, but it is valid:

The drug addict(who of course had to get fully clean for a good while before getting on the list), doesn't get your organ and dies. Oops, this former drug addict would have turned his or her life around and went to school and became a cancer researcher and found the cures for the last remaining cancers.

Now, your organ did go to little innocent boy who meets your requirements and he lives. Oh no! Say it ain't so, he grew up to become the next Hitler.

One can never know what will happen, so that is why it must be anonymous.

 

[Aesir23]

Personally, I'm in support of Organ Donation. I would have to be considering I am a donor. As for your second question, I partially agree with you. While I would be slightly hesitant about my organs going to someone who is at fault for their own organ's destruction, I wouldn't be against it. After all, they have as much right to a new chance at life as anyone else. Besides, regarding my own lungs and smokers. It's not like they would ruin a pair of pretty pink, pristine lungs. I've lived in a small city my entire life and both of my parents were smokers for a long time (my mother quitting just this past year and my father quitting five to seven years before her). Chances are, my lungs probably look just as bad as the lungs of someone who smokes.

To answer your final question though, I don't think there should be restrictions beyond the ones already offered. There are already so many people who need transplants and not enough organs to go to everyone who needs them. As a result, many people die while waiting for a transplant. If such restrictions were imposed it would only make things worse.

 

[Daverson]

Well, the alternative is clinging onto your Organs and not letting anyone have them. It's all good and fine to say "I want my organs to go to someone who deserves them", but if things were like that, the people who deserve them have got a hundred odd other people saying "Pick me! Have my organs! I want to be remembered as the man who donated Chuck Norris his Spleen".

Personally I like the idea of organ donation. I intend for my body to be completely stripped down upon death (or if I simply decide to get a new one) and divvied up between science and medicine.