Should You Or Should You Not Donate.......

[moonbeam]

Nope. Nope nope nope. My family and I fight over this sometimes. They all believe strongly in donating to science.

But nope. I know I was a sick child so some of my organs aren't great and would probably be useful to students learning but I can't.

I would love a Viking funeral. Failing that cremate me ASAP. Do not allow my body to linger. Don't pretty me up or wait for xy or z to show up to have a ceremony. When I'm dead my body will um release and then go all cold and freakishly still. Then just set me on fire.

Just please please please make sure I am dead first!

 

[J_trustno1]

This is my perspective on this whole thing:

I know some of you are very towards donating your organs or dead body to science or the ill because you see it as a noble cause to give life to someone.

However, I am personally not in for either the donation or scientific dissection. I personally believe that if I am a horrible human being while I'm alive then there is NOT much I can do after I die. My body may save some people's life but I will be in the entire circle of life. I'd rather be released entirely than my parts being here and there. I'd rather help people while I'm alive than I'm dead, I'd rather be there for people now than when I am dead because I will only be a material part of my body not who I am inside. Most importantly I would NOT want to save a life of horrible abusers like my mum's brother, the pedophile or my father. If my organs were to go to someone I will want to have their deeds checked before having my organ in a perpetrators body. I wouldn't want my organs in a pedophiles body or a abusive husband/father or any other type of abusive person regardless of their gender.

I know a lot of you will disagree to my beliefs and will be calling me "selfish" like I was called at work today when I said I'm not donating my body after death. It's my body and it's my right to choose what I want to do with it. I may not have done a Nobel cause till now but that does not stop me from not doing anything good in future. I think it should be a personal choice other than people dumping their views on others like at work.

I have always wondered what to do with my body once I'm gone but the conversation at work kinda made me ask this question in open here.

 

[LuckyDuck]

If I signed the card "Yes" to donations I wouldn't be alive for the process of seeing someone benefit from my donations, so that doesn't bother me too much. I wouldn't know the personality of the one who received my junk either, so that doesn't get to me.

There's nothing noble from me in this. I don't view it as a noble thing at all. Noble is for the doctors who harvested my innards. Noble are the scientists who paved the way for these things to actually happen.

I'm just ticking boxes.

 

[Queen Boudica]

I watched a program on SBS recently, China has a huge transplant rate, that cannot possibly be explained by dead donors but which there is some evidence to suggest the organs are forcibly harvested from political prisoners such as Falun Gong believers, often live removal of organs and the donor killed in the process. And the recipient pays a tonne of money for those organs. Wonder if the spirit of the murdered Falon Gong believer resides in those organs. I think not.

http://organpetition.org/

 

[scout86]

It's my body and it's my right to choose what I want to do with it.

Totally true! And it's not really fair of them to call you selfish because you don't see things the way they do. You're entitled to your opinion.

Personally, I don't look at it as much as being a noble cause as just a practical matter. It's been a pretty good, useful body. If someone else can get use from parts of it once I no longer need it, I think that's cool

As far as getting to decide who deserves help and who doesn't........ I have a bunch of thoughts on that. To begin with we can't see all ends. I have no way to know whether or no saving the life of a person I see as evil today might have an impact for "Good" somewhere down the road. And I don't know if the extra time will give them a chance to see the "error of their ways" so to speak and change for the better. And, "deserving" seems like it's not a major force in the universe, even if I wish it was. Lots of good people don't get the good things they deserve. And lots of bad people don't get the bad things they deserve. Myself, I look at it as all that stuff being above my pay grade.

But, we are all entitled to our own opinions on this stuff and disagreements shouldn't lead to name calling!

 

[sun seeker]

I would be okay with donating organs, not that I've done anything about that yet. I don't think there's a right or wrong about it though.

I have a real terror of being buried alive, used to have nightmares about it, it goes with all my suffocation issues. I suppose once I had donated my organs people would be really, really sure I was dead before burial. I don't like the idea of cremation for some reason.

 

[Tinyflame]

I think we're all headed to dust whether we're comfortable with that idea or not.

It's an act of charity to donate organs, but the truth is (barring accidents) most illnesses that result in death do not leave organs salvageable for transplant.

I would prefer to be lost at sea! Funeral costs are enormous.

 

[WildMermaid]

My mom chose to become ashes, and she wanted to be put into the Pacific Ocean, which my brother, and a few family members and I did last spring along with a ceremony that I think she would have approved of. She allowed my brother and I keep some of her ashes though and he keeps his in his truck so she's always with him. I wear her in a beautiful piece of memorial jewelry with an amethyst on it as that was her favorite stone. I've taken her to San Diego, Vegas, and a bunch of other places she adored. *smile*

I'm a genetic oddity and an organ donor. My insides are in rather good condition for being such a medical freak. O.o :happy: I do hope if my turn comes before my husband and my children that they have some of my ashes if they want them, my mom's have been a source of comfort to me. I wouldn't mind some being used around a tree so that my body becomes part of the cycle and some in the ocean as it is the most powerful symbol in my life.

Thank you @J_trustno1 this is an interesting topic and I liked reading everyone's thoughts and wishes.

 

[WildMermaid]

I should note that it was one of my mother's last requests that we keep her with us and take her to her favorite places.

 

[notsurewheretoturn]

I've never liked the thought of organ donation and it angers me every time I see yet another appeal by someone wanting an organ. Rightly or wrongly, it always gives me the impression that they are wishing for the 'right' person to die so that they can live. So its firmly on my records that nothing is taken from my body as its against my belief system.

As for what to do with my corpse, sorry folks but that's what it is, I've always wanted to be buried at sea (not cremated first - whole body in the ocean.)

Everyone whose buried feeds the worms and the beetles, what about the poor fish.

 

[mytai]

I personally am donating my body to science. They can use whatever organs they need for those on a donor list, use the rest for learning purposes. Nice this is, they cremate your body after they are finished with it and return your ashes to your family at no cost to them. Win-win. My death helps save others, and my family doesn't have the expense of dealing with my body.

 

[Queen Boudica]

I've never liked the thought of organ donation and it angers me every time I see yet another appeal by someone wanting an organ.

Sorry that really angers me. There are children here who are dying. What would you do if your child were dying? Or if you had kids and you were dying and you knew there were organs there that were going to rot in the ground that could save someone. Let you child die? Hmmm