Poll: organ donation.
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Of course I am!!! What use do I have for my organs when I die?? I wanna be cremated and it'd be such a fucking waste if someone else died because I was a stupid, selfish *****.
I've signed the form and I'm obviously letting them have whatever they need.
I've signed the form and I'm obviously letting them have whatever they need.
Well, I asked my doctor about it, since I could technically donate blood as soon as in three months. But I just take too many meds, plus thanks to my asthma there's no way of saying how I would react after losing so much blood. I told her that I haven't had an attack since I was 7, but that doesn't matter - they can't take that risk. Although I'm pretty sure there are those forms that make me responsible for anything that might happen.Semitendon said:
But I take 50 mg of Losartan a day. Body processes it for 6 to 8 hours, lasts twice more after that. So if anyone suffers from any of the conditions that might make taking that drug ill-advised... that alone makes my blood significantly less useful.
Still, while it does make me a poor choice for blood donation, I can still be a donator, as long as my awesome blood type 0+ is viable.
What about antibiotics? If you're dying because of an infection, well that's your immune system crapping out, to treat you would be to defile the natural order.Guttural Engagement said:
Seriously, appeal to nature is the worst argument imaginable.
Sorry, you are wrong, my kidney disease also can cause damage in the liver, pancreas, and in some cases (though somewhat rare, but from my impression not rare enough that I get a yearly battery of tests) the heart and brain. That combined with hypertension which causes damage to your heart/eyes in general and various blood vessels you are looking at a handful of organs that are highly questionable.Semitendon said:
I was denied because of the medications I was on, they said that if I used a certain set of medications and my hypertension was under control when they took my BP it would be fine.
1) I pretty offended by this, primarily since going into medicine isn't easy, I've had to bust my ass for a great deal of years, take out large loans to pay for school, and have to bust my ass for a lot more years to get through med school and being an intern before I see a dime of profit. And secondly because you go about it in such an arrogant and condescending manner to not only point out something you disagree about but instead attack the poster's credibility.
2) Maybe you are under the wrong impression from watching too many medical dramas but the title of med student is a hard thing to nail down, in just a few years so much info has to be crammed down. You make the assumption that a med student should know everything. Guess what, I am a first year med student, and we are currently working on the thorax. We started in osteo, moved to CNS, head and neck and now thorax. Maybe in your world med students are like in Scrubs where they are handling patients in the first month of their first year and diagnosing diseases on real people, but that isn't how the real world works.
Might want to go back and read what I posted. The English language is one of fine details, that you either ignored or missed. I specifically said in the case of a risky or a low chance surgery/ set of actions or if I came into a hospital in a terrible condition (meaning if I sustained some sort of life threatening injury or was screwed up in some terrible way).
I do not see any point in my first post about doctor's deciding who gets what organ, or about assigning the priority of who gets what.
My post addressed a completely theoretical case in which I was in such a condition that I had a pretty good chance of dying, the surgeon would try but might not go that extra mile to try and save me because it is clear that I am an organ donor and the beneficial thing to do would be to prep and get those organs and the recipient ready.
I'm not talking about some one coming in with a broken arm and the doctor taking them in the back and choking them to death because they are an organ donor. In no way did I say a doctor is going to kill a completely healthy person for a few sick people.
I'm talking about a very rare situation and theoretical situation which I, if I was an organ donor, would feel uncomfortable about. And actually have been somewhat paranoid about since years ago when I got stabbed in the back and went into the emergency room, one of their first questions was "Are you an organ donor?" and my thought was wtf does this have to do with anything, I'm bleeding out, I need to be stitched up.
In the future, please don't be condescending and a complete jerk about a post you disagree with, you clearly have an agenda and are fairly biased and aggressive in a forum where it is asking people why or why they aren't organs donors. If I was a person standing out side a hospital screaming at people not to be organ donors then yes I would agree you have every right to browbeat them. Also you claim to work for "organ and tissue transplant" yet you seem to think that there is no genetic kidney disease who affects other organs and you seem to be oblivious of the stress hypertension puts on the eyes/heart and why a person with hypertension might be denied for donating blood. Might want to rethink that work or you might want to go back to school to learn a bit more since, as you put it, misinformation can rob a potential recipient of a chance at a longer life, or in this case giving a person a bad organ can harm them.
Generally, no. Mainly because I know the NHS would gladly hand over my lungs to chain smokers and my liver to a drunk, so I'd rather they died than have a second chance only to waste my organs and move onto someone else's.
This is probably rhetorical, but what the hell. Some people have religious reasons for not wanting their organs harvested after death. That is just one reason why everyone isn't a donor by default.dochmbi said:
OT: I can certainly understand the trepidation some people have with donating organs. If a loved one is in a terrible accident, and is left brain dead, often the hospital will ask about organ donation at that time. But it can be a difficult decision to make when you've just learned your loved one is gone. Some people just aren't emotionally ready to make that decision at that time, and despite the fact that you sign a donor card, your family still needs to give consent.
I am donor, because I don't really care what happens to my body when I'm gone. But I wouldn't judge others based on their choice to donate or not. It's a personal choice, and it wouldn't be my place to question what you want to do with your body.
I most certainly will judge others on their decision to probably killing others through inaction, due to their silly superstitions. I will judge them as selfish and another few choice words.meganmeave said:
OT: I am an ordan donor, no reason to keep what I'm never going to use.
I plan to be an Organ Donor, but I'm still talking with my family about it. My father is against it. He thinks that if you become an organ donor, it would make it easier for someone to legally farm organs. That's a myth, I know, but it only takes one objecting family member to halt the donation process.
yes i am. I look at it this way: when your dead you see your organs get put to use. a five year old girl is dying and needs a heart and you give her yours. makes you feel good when you save a life, eh?
I'm not an organ donor. It's not that I'm against it, I've just heard from certain knowledgeable parties that if you are severely injured, organ donors are less likely to be saved by the EMTs(not that they won't help out, they'll just do enough to preserve your organs). I know it sounds a bit off, but really only the EMTs would know and an outsider couldn't prove it otherwise, so for know, my organs are my own.
