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

[notsurewheretoturn]

Oops. :bag: It would appear the little flag has lead me astray. :confused:

That's OK, the little flag only says where you live now, not where you came from, or want to be.

 

[Changing4Best]

My mother donated her body to Albany Medical School in upstate New York for scientific purposes. We were and are proud of her for doing that. My dad tried to donate his too, but he was too overweight, so they could not take his. When they are done, about a year later, they cremate the body for free.

My body cannot be used for medical purposes, in other words, I cannot be a donor. I have Lyme Disease and if someone were to get my heart or whatever, they would get it too, so I cannot donate blood for that same reason either. Oh well....

 

[Nighthawk]

Please stop taking this thread off topic. Everyone is allowed an opinion. If you wish to ignore each other you can do so by going to the members profile and hitting the ignore button. Any further unrelated bickering will force me to lock this thread.

Thank you

 

[NovemberStar]

@notsurewheretoturn - you're right, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

HOWEVER - I also think that if someone is not prepared to offer their organs for donation, then they should not be able to have an organ transplant if they needed one. The few that object for religious reasons / perosnal reaosns - same thing, becasue if you have so much objection to organ donation, then you wouldn't (in theory) be ok to receiving an organ either.


@moonbeam a lot of the major organs you can't 'be dead' - you can be brain dead, but your body needs to be on life support and your body working properly UNTIL the time of donation. Yes, your organs can be collected, put on ice and immediatley transported to another hospital if needed, but technically you're alive unti the machines are switched off AFTER you've been cut up - in other words- you can't donte the major organs if you don't die IN the hospital becasue they need to be 'fresh'

 

[moonbeam]

@moonbeam a lot of the major organs you can't 'be dead' - you can be brain dead, but your body needs to be on life support and your body working properly UNTIL the time of donation. Yes, your organs can be collected, put on ice and immediatley transported to another hospital if needed, but technically you're alive unti the machines are switched off AFTER you've been cut up - in other words- you can't donte the major organs if you don't die IN the hospital becasue they need to be 'fresh'

A lot of my major organs wouldn't be good for someone else (they don't work that great for me either). I know how organ donation works. I meant make sure I am dead before I am cremated. We are also discussing the idea of donating bodies to science/medicine AFTER DEATH.

That's a fair opinion to have. To be honest I wouldn't want someone else's organs either. I can see your point about it being unfair to give someone organs that wouldn't donate themselves. But its not that simple. Many illnesses and various types of cancer can prevent people from donating organs when dead. So if they couldn't donate in the first place, does that preclude them from receiving a donation? Does this include blood? So people who don't donate blood (and some people like myself aren't allowed to) does that mean they shouldn't receive a transfusion? Isn't this also a bit like the life and death organ donation version of tit-for-tat at Holiday parties? If you don't give a present then you don't get one. Shouldn't donating organs be a personal choice? Something someone does to try and help someone else? And not because they are afraid they won't get an organ donation if they ever need it?

On an aside I have just discussed this with a friend in real life who says you can donate your body for necrophiliac studies. Where apparently people can learn about/experiment sexually. I am now thoroughly against donating. Seriously cremate me ASAP AFTER I DIE.

 

[notsurewheretoturn]

@NovemberStar I quite agree, which is why I'm on record as saying I would refuse one. I've never had one, just lived with only one kidney.

PS if the text is coming up large, new phone and not sure how to change everything on it yet.

 

[J_trustno1]

I am anemic, have low blood hemoglobin and have beta thelesimia so I am NOT allowed to donate blood. Plus I have thyroid problems and always on some form of medication (either antidepressants or thyroid pills) so donating blood isn't an option for me.

Coming back to the original question. Yesterday at work there was a discussion going on about First Aid training and the lady who called me selfish. She said she'll never do first aid training because it disgusts her. Btw I have signed up for the training because I want to be prepared for any adverse circumstances in the future. I said I signed up for the training but the only thing that scares me is giving someone CPR because of the mouth to mouth contact with a stranger. She said, she doesn't care and wouldn't do any CPR on anyone. Then I asked her that she's signed up for donating her body after death and how does this not relate to helping people?

Guess what her reply was!!! She said "she doesn't care because when she's dead she won't know what's happening to her body. The whole idea of giving blood and doing all this stuff disgusts her".

Now this was the entire purpose of my post. A lot of people pretend to be generous and think donating their dead body is a nobel cause but in their real lives they sick in the head. (P.S. I'm not raising fingers at anyone on this forum but speaking in general ). She called me selfish for making a choice about not donating my dead body but she herself wouldn't give a shit if someone was dying in front of her!!!

All I believe in is being helpful while I'm alive and be gone forever when I'm dead but some people have wrong agenda. They don't want to be nice or helpful while living. So my question is now, what is the point of pretending to be nice when you're a real asshole who doesn't give a damn about other people's life or condition while alive? I'd rather be nobel /nice or whatever you call it , in my living life than having my organs thrown around amongst random strangers when I'm dead!!!

 

[ms spock]

I don't want my body suffering after I'm dead

I don't understand, when you are dead you are dead, your body doesn't suffer.

 

[illusionist]

In life, I believe in recycling.....if anything can be spruced up and reused, I'm all for it. I see death in exactly the same way.....if any of my parts can give life to another person....I'm registered.....if not, and my parts are too old to give life to another person?...or no good for research ?...then I wish for a woodlands burial so that nature gets the benefit of my death....I so hate anything going to waste!.

 

[joeylittle]

I also think that if someone is not prepared to offer their organs for donation, then they should not be able to have an organ transplant if they needed one. The few that object for religious reasons / perosnal reaosns - same thing, becasue if you have so much objection to organ donation, then you wouldn't (in theory) be ok to receiving an organ either.

Could not agree more.

Many illnesses and various types of cancer can prevent people from donating organs when dead. So if they couldn't donate in the first place, does that preclude them from receiving a donation?

No, it would work the same as a donation order; you either have given permission to donate and receive, or you have declined to donate and receive. You can agree to donate your organs/body after death whether you have good re-useable organs or not; if you end up being a cadaver for class, so be it.

It's nothing to do with whether or not your organs or body are desireable; it's to do with whether or not you are comfortable/willing to share them and/or receive them, or if you just want your own for keeps. It makes perfect sense to me.

I'd donate anything. @richter scale said it - recycling is good.

 

[anonymous]

I wonder how many people suddenly change their minds about organ donation the moment they are told they themselves need an organ or will die..... (Or even go blind.....that one's scary, too!)

 

[ihateusernames]

Once I'm dead I have no further use for my body. So I don't really care what happens to it. If somebody can use some part of it then that's great. I'm an "organ donor" but I don't have a will so if I died tomorrow I couldn't say whether or not that wish would be fulfilled. Aside from that I have no burial or cremation preference- only that it's nothing expensive.

Edit: Or I could have just said "Exactly what @richter scale said" It seems like a huge waste to stash my body away in a box and bury it if somebody could use some part of me after I'm gone.