Organ donation

[trailerprincess]

And not the musical kind

Who's a registered donor? Have you agreed for all your organs to be used? For some reason, when I registered I don't think I agreed for my eyes to be used... What do people think of the new UK law? personally, I think it's great (y)

[na§tee]

i am registered - like, years ago, but i don't carry my card around with me. is there some procedure where they just check on a big database and go "yes! that claire stewart is this dead claire stewart here, cut her up!"? i assume so. of course there is. but i still wonder.

i haven't, like, discussed with my family what i would like them to do with my body because, to be honest, at 23 i don't really think about death that much. but they would never go against my wishes because i don't think they'd be too precious about the whole keep her body intact thing. after all, they're never gonna see it again!

i don't fancy being cremated. that's all i ask for. i want to be buried in lewis, next to the ocean and the beach and in the middle of the village (really, it is! i can see it from my bedroom window at home. it has an ancient viking 'church' in the middle. of course, it's not a church, but still, it's awesome). and there's, um, lots of space there so i think it should be alright.

[Thundercracker]

i'm a registered organ donor, and i agreed that any of my organs can be used.
the thought that after i'm dead i could still somehow help people makes me feel good with myself.
why just bury the organs if those organs can be used to save lives? i won't need them once i'm dead.

[icy manipulator]

i've put undecided on my drivers licence. i think that means that they cant take them or they can if they ask my parents permission. note to anyone that rides a motorbike, i suggest you tick yes on that box

[Funky Pepp]

I'm registered. But I don't want them to use my eyes too...

BTW: I started that same thread some time ago here (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=63167) :D

[Nivvie]

I'm registered, and they can have everything.

I ummed and ahhhhed about the eyes, simply as it seemed weird for someone to see the world through my eyes, they seem so connected to the mind, but the horrible truth is they become concave soon after death anyway, so it's not like the outer appearence would be altered by their removal.

[mikizee]

in australia the only way u can register (as far as i know) is when u renew your drivers licence. so it says 'organ donor' on mine. u cant choose what organs to give away, your either a donor or your not.

but ive heard bad stories about being a donor, like if your clinging to life the hospital will be quicker about pulling the plug etc or if there are 2 ppl that need life or death attention in hospital the non organ donor will get helped first.

dunno if any of that is true tho.

[QueenAdrock]

I said no at first, because I've heard stories of doctors not working quite as hard as they could to revive you because they have the "Hey she can always be carved up for organs" mindset. But then I said screw it, if I'm at that point where they would think that, that would also mean I'm on the border of life and death. At that point, even if I WAS revived, what would be the chances that I'm not severely mutated or a vegetable? I decided to put my faith in the doctors around here and believe they'd try as hard as they could before they decided to let me go, and give my organs to others.

[QueenAdrock]

but ive heard bad stories about being a donor, like if your clinging to life the hospital will be quicker about pulling the plug etc or if there are 2 ppl that need life or death attention in hospital the non organ donor will get helped first.

dunno if any of that is true tho.

As a registered Red Cross First-Aid responder, I can tell you that the rule of thumb is to go after the person who can be helped the most. For example, if someone came in with severe bleeding from a gunshot wound through one of his lungs (having exit and entrance wounds), and another person came in that had a broken leg protruding out of the body with profuse bleeding, the broken leg would be helped first. It's because the chances of survival for the broken leg are much higher than the gunshot wound. If they were to try to help the gunshot wound guy FIRST, there's a chance that both of them could die. If you KNOW one of them can survive, you go after that one first. It's all about who you CAN save, versus who is extremely risky and in the long run could take up all of your time and no one else could be saved during that time since they'd take up all of your attention.

If two people came in with the same exact wounds, that would be a harder situation, though.

[beastiegirrl101]

I'm a doner....and I have organ doner license plates! Recycle yourself!

[HEIRESS]

my coworker has a dead dude's corneas!

[QueenAdrock]

I'm a doner....and I have organ doner license plates! Recycle yourself!

Can I have your butt when you die?

[jabumbo]

my dad was one of the main guy in developing the whole system for that here, and now most states and several other countries use the same model.

he was telling me how not long ago, he got a phone call from some japanese media about this since they were about to adopt the same policy and his picture was in the paper even though nobody knew who he was there.




so yeah, i am a donor

[The Notorious LOL]

even if you have "donor" listed on your ID they need an OK from the next of kin. So basically its a "okay to ask family if he/she really meant they are a donor" endorsement.

[trailerprincess]

even if you have "donor" listed on your ID they need an OK from the next of kin. So basically its a "okay to ask family if he/she really meant they are a donor" endorsement.

yeah, this is what will change as of midnight tonight in the UK - there is no longer a requirement to ask permission from the deceased's family

[marsdaddy]

On Nov 4 2005, I went through almost needing a liver transplant. I hadn't thought too much about death before then. On Nov 5 2005, I instructed a lawyer friend draw up the paperwork for a medical order to not keep me alive on machines, a last will and testament, and a donor order.

I'm a donor.

beastiegirrl101 is a stoner or has a boner?

[Freebasser]

I pity the guy with 3rd degree burns who gets my face (n)

[beastiegirrl101]

beastiegirrl101 is a stoner or has a boner?

um, what? Neither.

[Caribou]

I've allowed them to cut me up into as many pieces as possible. I'll be dead anyway so I won't notice, and If I can help someone else out, then I think I should.

[Echewta]

Have everything but my Corpus Callosum because I heard I need that in the afterlife.

[beastieangel01]

I'm a donor, they can take what they wish.

California finally got around to printing the "donor" button on the license vs. the old donor sticker they'd give you that would fall off within a few months.

[bigblu89]

I'd have no problem being a donor.

When I die, I wanna be creamated, and I want my ashes to be put in a pile under my season ticketed seat at Giants Stadium.

My wife doesn't like that idea.

[QueenAdrock]

When I die, I want to be cremated and my ashes mixed into some sort of delicious cookie dough so some little girl will eat me and I can somehow find a way to live through her.

I dunno, it worked on South Park.

[RaZoRbLaDe KiSs]

Im not registered since im under age, if i die before.. next year, my mom ultimatley gets to decide if she wants my organs donated, but it says on my state ID that I want to donate. I dont think i'd want my eyes taken, only if they could be put to really good use, not used for exsperiments and shit, but I wouldnt mind if they took my liver or kidneys or heart or something.

[b-grrrlie]

I've got both Irish and Swedish organ doner card. I got the Irish one when I dated Jim back in 89 (there's a date on the back) and they didn't have those cards here so I thought I better get one.
I just checked my purse and couldn't find my Swedish one, it was made of really thin cardboard so it was in a bad shape, the other card's plastic.
I'm letting all my organs to be used, but not for students to mess about with (I had a workmate who studied to be a surgeon and heard his stories........).
I want the rest of my body to be freezedried, I hope by the time I die it should be all fixed, it ain't really allowed here yet. Cause then the rest of me can be put in a mouldering container and used as a fertiliser, preferably for a Pyrus salicifolia. My body is not allowed to be cremated, cause cremation destroys so much of the ozone layer.

So this is my will and testament in case something happens.... .

[Funky Pepp]

in australia the only way u can register (as far as i know) is when u renew your drivers licence. so it says 'organ donor' on mine. u cant choose what organs to give away, your either a donor or your not.

but ive heard bad stories about being a donor, like if your clinging to life the hospital will be quicker about pulling the plug etc or if there are 2 ppl that need life or death attention in hospital the non organ donor will get helped first.

dunno if any of that is true tho.
I heard that organ-donors will be re-animated even longer than the
"ordinary" patients, because the organs need to be sullpied with blood.
Otherwise they couldn't be implanted to someone else's body...

So, your chances to survive as an organ-donor can be even bigger.

[Echewta]

I'm donating my organ to a church.

Thank you. Thank you. You are too kind. I'll be here all day.