Poll: organ donation.

[Disaster Button]

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?

yes, this applies to bisexual guys, the question form where they determine if they want your blood states "as a man, have you had sex with a man?".
a friend who studies medicine explained that statistically,
gay people (well, the male gay people) have less safe sex
then hetero people.

you also can't give blood if you've gotten a different sexual partner in the last 6 months, or had a piercing in the last 3 months. apparently, you also can't give blood if you have had sex with someone who once used certain drugs.

But its rediculous to use that statistic against the invidivual.

I know a gay guy who had never had unprotected sex (I think he might have even been a virgin) and a straight girl who had lots of unprotected sex. Obviously she is at a greater risk of carrying an STD yet she was allowed to donate blood and the other guy wasn't. Hell, even that line of gay people having less safe sex is a gigantic generalisation.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

In the UK, you have to be 12 to legally declare yourself as an organ donor.

In that case, I shall now become one.

 

[Stoic raptor]

I dont think I am old enough yet, but I plan to be an organ donar.

 

[Ildecia]

donated blood; and that thing on my license

 

[bluepilot]

No, I do not want to donate my organs.

Maybe I am selfish, but I believe that once your organs have packed in, it is time to leave the mortal world. I think that modern medicine prolongs life longer than what is natural, plus donated organs only slightly prolong the inevitable. With some organ transplants, life long treatment is still necessary so organ transplantation does not necessary increase the quality of life. Even many sucessulful organ transplants can sentance someone to a lifetime of going in and out of hospitals, multiple surgeries e.t.c. until their bodies cannot take the stress anymore.

Then there is the issue of chronic blood diseases such as hepatitus. Should we keep renewing someone`s liver just to keep them alive? In the process of organ donation is the choice of who gets to live a few more years and who gets to die. Can modern medicine really be trusted with these descisions? We cannot solve every medical problem just by simply inserting a new organ.

I would donate my skin and eyes though, because I think that restoring someone`s sight or someone`s face would definatly bring an improvement in their quality of life.

 

[Latinidiot]

no. when I die, I die. all of me.

 

[Trivun]

[sub]search bar approved. all i could find was something about what you want to happen to your corpse when you die.[/sub]

A few weeks ago, while walking around Glasgow, I was wandering through the train station when I nearly tripped over a small woman carrying a clipboard. She thrust it up towards my face, saying "Would you like to become an organ donor?!". That's exactly what I did. I filled out her little form and bam, within 30 seconds I had signed my organs away to be fired into someone else should I die. That's a very blunt way of putting it but it's essentially true. Because of my age, she told me to make sure that my immediate family were aware of this fact. When I told my mum and step-dad, there was a contrast in opinions on the subject.

The questions I pose to you are:
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?

Wait, you mean up in Scotland you still have to specify yourself if you want to be a donor?

Down here in England and Wales, it's now become the case that everybody is automatically an organ donor and that if you want to opt out for whtever reason you need to go to your doctor and state that you don't want to be a donor. At least, I think that's the case. Which I think works better since I don't see any reason why people shouldn't be organ donors. Simply refusing to be for anything other than religious or medical reasons is just plain selfish. And for the record, yes, I am an organ donor .

 

[CincoDeMayo]

I'm not a donor, yet.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

I'm not a donor yet, but when I die I want my organs to be used to save other people who may need them.

 

[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

..*sigh* the UK. I only recently found out they can't donate blood myself.

That really doesn't make any sense. I mean, unless the doctors taking the donations are completely off their rockers, they screen the donators for any diseases transmitted through blood, right?
Or does the UK have some sort of russian-roulette style blood transfusion system?

 

[Macgyvercas]

Yes I am. I figure if I die, and my organs can help someone else, then why the hell not. It's not like I'll have any use for them. I'm a blood donor, as well.

 

[sauerkraus]

I am proud to say that I am not an organ donor. Partly because I believe that if somebody with bad genetic stuff lives to procreate, he will pass his bad genes to his offspring which is why so many people in the modern world have crazy fucked up diabetes and cerebral palsy and shit. Modern medicine stops diseases from killing off the unlucky ones so that they can make more babies who will grow up to live with paralysis or a wasting disease through their whole life.

I would like to be, but i am no longer a blood donor. I have a horrifying fear of needles and those things are huge. My first time I donated for a friend because she was too young to do it herself and I have magic blood (can donate to like everyone lol), and I was able to survive the ordeal with nothing more than nausea. The second time it was worse, nausea with getting really hot, and the third time I had the nausea, lightheadedness, and I felt really hot, and apparently my blood wasn't flowing fast enough so they wiggled the needle around a few times and after a while I was like OMG GET ME OUT OF HERE I DONT WANT TO DIE OMG HELP ME ONOEZ AAAAHHH! So, I'm no longer a blood donor.

EDIT: yeah, the skin and eyes I think I would donate because it would improve someones life and usually those are damaged by physical trauma rather than diseases.

 

[DuplicateValue]

No, because if I die, I'm not going to give away my organs so someone I don't even know can have them. Even if I did know them, I wouldn't give an organ, because I just want to have all my organs with me. The miracle of modern medicines can heal you, not a part of me.

You're dead. What are you gonna use them for?
The fact that they can use a part of you to save someone's life is a miracle of modern medicine.

 

[Jedoro]

They can take out whatever they like, but my family gets my body itself for funeral purposes and whatnot. I figure if my organs can help someone, may as well use them instead of letting them rot in my coffin.

 

[evilninja60]

sure ii'll donate them i don't have much use for them once i'm dead anyways.....unless i come back as a zombie...wait do zombies need organs?

 

[Danik93]

hah this remind me of the Monty Python thingy... from the meaning of life i think.