Organ Donation - Yes or No?

[The Don]

You're entitled to debate your views, but there's no need for the unnecessarily rude "shut the **** up" comment to her...

I know really, seemed unnecessarily harsh.

I'm not an organ donor, I don't really know how to sign up for it or anything although I don't mind my organs being used after I die. I don't understand why people are so against it, it literally won't matter to you as you're dead... I think we should also use the systems other countries use where if you are an organ donor you receive organ donations (should you unfortunately need one) quicker.

I think I may actually look up how to become one now.

[Sharon]

no in the nicest way possible they're mine and i want to keep them regardless. i haven't caused any1 to die directly by not giving them up and i have no intention to want to donate them

so so sick of sly people that feel the need to question people's decisions and try to pressure them into feeling like they have to. news shock they don't

ps. this wasn't to anyone in particular in time of posting i hadn't read thread yet however saying i deserve to be left to die if i don't want to donate is not the nicest to hear

[Yupt]

I love the idea of helping others, I give blood and what not. But I don't think I like the idea of my heart beating in someone else's chest, etc.

[Joe]

Understand completely why some dislike the idea of their organs being in someone else, but I honestly don't care about what happens to me when I eventually die. I'm not religious so I wont have to be intact for any form of afterlife either, so quite frankly whoever can have whatever they like. We have to remember really, organs can only be used when the patient is young - if I was a heavy smoking 90 year old with lungs that are nearly dead, they won't want to use them.

When I signed up to be an organ donor my mum accepted it but pleaded with me to not check the eyes column - if I were to die young, it'd destroy her if by chance she saw someone with my eyes. Kinda cute. But yeah, if someone gets to live a little longer with the kidneys I no longer need, they're very welcome to it and I hope they enjoy that big extra longer with their families.

Yeah, I'm also a donor for the Anthony Nolan trust, that offers life-changing treatment to patients requiring urgent stem cell donations.

[Empired]

So anyone who's religion prevents them or their own views of needing a full body to enter into afterlife etc should die because their views prevent them from being organ donors?

*REMOVED*

People can become a donor if they want, if they don't want to then they don't want to. Regardless of reasons either way. Saying someone should possibly die because they can't get the organ they need because they're not a donor is idiotic.

Edited by Nick (Assistant Forum Manager): Please don't be rude to others.

Haha

I'm not forcing people to give up their organs and I think I'd agree with what The Don said. If you're not on the organ donors list and you need a new heart, you can have a spare one if they're going but if other people who are on the list need a heart, they should always be given priority. Is that fairer?

[buttons]

Haha

I'm not forcing people to give up their organs and I think I'd agree with what The Don said. If you're not on the organ donors list and you need a new heart, you can have a spare one if they're going but if other people who are on the list need a heart, they should always be given priority. Is that fairer?

say you're an organ donor but u drink, smoke and eat fatty foods, destroying them before anyone could get a chance to use it, should they be allowed to get organs when they've ruined a chance of someone else getting them just cause they've said they'll donate them?

[Kyle]

Organ donation should not be complicated by some moral imposition to have to give up what belongs to you. Jehovah's Witnesses choose not to give blood, if they suddenly have a change of heart and choose to adapt their religion to suit their need to stay alive should we deny them a blood transfusion? I don't believe so.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[The Don]

Organ donation should not be complicated by some moral imposition to have to give up what belongs to you. Jehovah's Witnesses choose not to give blood, if they suddenly have a change of heart and choose to adapt their religion to suit their need to stay alive should we deny them a blood transfusion? I don't believe so.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Should a non-donor receive a heart over/before somebody that would be willing to donate theirs?

[Kyle]

Should a non-donor receive a heart over/before somebody that would be willing to donate theirs?

Yes. It's not a transaction, it's a donation. We don't give to charities that support those that are worse off in anticipation of them paying it forward should they ever get out of their predicament, we do so because we want to help. I just don't quite understand how being willing to give up your own organs automatically qualifies you as a more worthy recipient of somebody else's.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[The Don]

Yes. It's not a transaction, it's a donation. We don't give to charities that support those that are worse off in anticipation of them paying it forward should they ever get out of their predicament, we do so because we want to help. I just don't quite understand how being willing to give up your own organs automatically qualifies you as a more worthy recipient of somebody else's.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There's an incredibly long waiting list for organs due to people receiving them but not giving them in return. Introducing either a opt-out system or giving priority to donors will greatly increase the amount of organs donated and will lower the number of people dying before they were able to receive a transplant.