Poll: organ donation.

[Crystal Cuckoo]

I don't think I can be an organ donor for the same reason I can't give blood: I lived in England during the Mad Cow period.

If I could, then yes, I would donate my organs if I was going to die with no hope for my survival (hooray for tautology!) But if I were in a coma or something, then no, I wouldn't want to.

If I ever come out of it, I'd like to have my insides still intact, thank you.

 

[Hafnium]

Everything except my eyes. You can take everything else, my skin and organs, but leave my damn eyes. Aside from finding it creepy, I want my real eyes with me when I die.

The organ donor lady got a little miffed when I said everything but my eyes. They're mine, damnit. You're already getting the rest of my insides.

I don't think they can't use more than the thin outer layer from your eyes (the cornea). They certainly can't pop whole eyes into someone elses face. My mom has had two operations where she received corneas from donors, giving her acceptable sight despite an eye-disease.

Anyway, your demand to keep them is completely fair of course, you're giving everything else.

As for me, yes I'm an organ donor, and have been a blood donor since I was able to about 4 years ago.


Khitten-->

Damn, that's harsh. If you end up on a hospital bed urgently needing an organ, don't complain if there are no organ to save your life.

My girlfriend's brother lost the function of his kidneys when he was 18, and just recently got one, at 30 years of age, mostly because people are selfish or distrust the system. So yeah, that's over a decade of his best years where he couldn't get a proper education or carreer because of medical reasons and the enormous time spent in dialysis-machines.

 

[Blatherscythe]

No I'm not an organ donor. Why? Because I haven't signed myself up for it yet (underaged), but I will, because I'm not going to use my liver, heart, kidneys, stomach, lungs, eyes, tounge, etc when I've kicked the bucket.

 

[Skooterz]

There's no point in NOT being an organ donor. I'm dead, I ain't using these anymore, take em and get the fuck outta here.

 

[WolfThomas]

Are you an organ donor?
If so, why? If not, why not?
If you want to be an organ donor, why aren't you one already?

Technically I'm not a registered organ donor, but in Australia that holds little sway, basically family have the last say in what happens to the body regardless of the person's wishes.

But my father has told me that he would give all my organs if I was brain dead, because while he would be very sad, I would get to save several lives and live on through those people and my gift.

I would never give my body for science though, which is especially selfish as being a medical student I have gotten the chance to study with cadavers, I just didn't like it, it's viking funeral all the way for me.

No. Nor will I ever be. I do not want some doc to take a little too long to help me because my organs could save X many others.
Also they are my parts. My body. I am not some friggin toy to chop and change parts with. There is even the fact that I do not want my remains given to med students to piss around with.
When I die I do not want a autopsy or to be embalmed. Just set me on fire and be done with it.
Also if they did make organ donation a opt out thing I would be pissed off. Unless my friends and family deliberately state that they want to donate then I would cause as many hassles as I could just to delay it till their organs are not usable any more.

Dude...

So there's a difference between giving organs and being used for science, as I established above. Doctors don't just let you die for your organs its against all of the codes of ethics and in fact there is a huge amount of tests and procedures they have to go through to establish you are dead before they can take your organs.

You can help/save dozens of people.

If it hasn't already been done

I'm not one.
People are better off without my organs.
They suck.

I figure I'm doing enough damage to my organs as possible so if someone had the opportunity to take them it wouldn't really be worth their time so no, I am not a donor.

Any organ is better than none

 

[walker.au]

I have my organs available and I donate blood platletes and blood plasma each month, you you did some research on what these blood components can do, you would be blown away.
if you have known anyone with major surgery, a serious accident, cancer or thousands of diseases. you might see how it should be part of every healthy persons life. there is a 99% chance that at sometime in your life a donation as simple as blood will save someone you know.

 

[Turing]

Yep. I plan to be a blood donor too.

While we're talking about it, sort of, does anyone know why gay people can't donate blood? And does anyone know if it applies to bisexual people?

Wait, what? What kind of backwards fascist hellhole do you live in?

On topic, I am indeed a donor, I have no use for my earthly remains when I've passed on and I'm a big fan of recycling

 

[Brad Shepard]

why wouldent i be? i got no use for my organs after i go, and besides, my religion doesnt say jack on the subject, and i think god would want me to help people with my organs i have no more use for.

 

[Kris015]

No i'm not, and i probably never will be.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I am not an organ donor. I want to be, but I don't know where to sign up...
So, it is just a matter of time.
Then others will be infected through the organs they get from me...
Mwahahahahaha!
[small]Haaauuuuuuuuuu~[/small]

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Funny thing about that. Before getting my driver's license (and the option of donating organs) I got my yearly physical. While my lung capacity was being tested, I brought up donating organs. My doctor did some tests on me, my head, my blood, head to toe, as well as look at family and personal medical history.

The verdict: I can't donate any organs because I've had jaundice (liver disease), family history of heart disease, chronic asthma, my blood has a lower pH (higher acidity) than the average person at 7.0 instead of 7.3.

To quote my doctor, "You're not fit to donate organs. In fact, it's nothing short of a medical miracle that you're still alive."

So, no. I'm not an organ donor.

 

[Xerosch]

Actually, I got my mother's kidney after almost two years of dialysis. As organs by still living donors only last about 15-20 years (organs by dead donors only 7-10 years) I'd be very happy about a whoooole lot of potential donors

 

[Guttural Engagement]

I'm not an organ donor; and don't plan to ever become one. I would like to keep my organ's inside me; even after death. If someone is going to die; they're going to die - I see taking some dead persons organ's and putting them in a live person so they can keep living (for a while? or a few years?) as a defilement to nature and the natural order.

I see it as; if your dying because one of your organs crapped out - then your dying and your going to die. It's your time; accept it - and die in peace.

Although, if someone I care about very much needed an organ donor; and I could provide them the organ they needed to keep living - I would most likely do it.

But for a stranger? No, definitely not.

 

[ace_of_something]

Nope. I have an autoimmune disease so I am not allowed to donate organs. They don't want mine. Which sucks for them because everyone in my family is type B- which I am told is very rare.

 

[Iznat]

I've had to choose no, but that's only because I'm not 18 yet, and can't become one.
I completely agree with organ donation. And pretty much as soon as I can, I'm going to become one. I know full well that transplant lists are ridiculously long in most countries, and if anything, I think you should automatically be an organ donor, and have to opt OUT of it.
I can't see why people wouldn't. After death, you have no need for them. I mean, come one. You think Hell's gonna have a buffet?

 

[Aesir23]

Yeah, I'm an organ donor. There's a little card in my wallet that has my signature and has a little box checked saying that my organs are only for transplant. After all, if I'm not using them, then why not give them to someone who needs them?

I've tried to give both blood and bone marrow (blood: 3 times, bone marrow: once) but each time I've been turned down because of my Crohn's Disease. So organ donation is really the only way I could help anyone.