Are you an organ donor?

[Rukas]

Why not?

It creeps me out.

I donate blood though (even though I have a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGEEEEEE fear of needles) to even out the karma scale.

I want to be buried intact and want my body treated with respect in Buddhist and Christian traditions and do not think that having it hacked up for spare parts fits into what I consider respectful.

 

[ArtsyGirl]

But, you are dead. Lights out baby. No comprende.. Sorry, it's your choice.. Good that you give blood, need more of that.

 

[Rukas]

But, you are dead. Lights out baby. No comprende..

Well. That is your opinion.

 

[Amara]

I want to be buried intact and want my body treated with respect in Buddhist and Christian traditions and do not think that having it hacked up for spare parts fits into what I consider respectful.

If you needed an organ transplant, would you take someone else's "spare part" or would you consider more respectful to die?

 

[Rukas]

If you needed an organ transplant, would you take someone else's "spare part" or would you consider more respectful to die?

Probably the latter. Although we are all kidding ourselves if we believe we know how we will act and feel in such a situation until presented with it.

 

[Illuminattile]

I've tried to donate blood twice, but both times they struggled to get enough. Dunno what's up with that.

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Dehydrated maybe..?

 

[Kobe]

Since your last post here, any thoughts or opinions changed? Someone flipped sides perhaps? I'm an organ donor. After hearing different stories of those in need, it seemed like the right personal choice

...or maybe coz one day I witnessed cops carry out a body exhumation. Embalmed or not, that was f!@#$d up I prefer to think I made the decision to be an organ donor before witnessing the exhumation.

 

[vg4030]

I donate my organ to yo momma every night

 

[S O F I]

When I was getting my license, nobody asked me to donate.

this.

 

[dilla]

Even if you are a donor, your family can revoke your decision and keep you in tact. It can't work vice versa, though.

I have it checked on my driver's license. Knowing my dad, I think he would struggle with it at first, but he would probably let my decision stand. My mom...I dunno what she'd think but I think they'd both say to do whatever I wanted them to do with it.

 

[Kobe]

^Yeah, in the end family do have the final call. I think that make the whole process redundant.

I think there is talk in England of donors having their funeral costs met by the NHS. Is it incentive to donate or a thank you to donors? I couldn't figure it out. Either way, I think things should be left as they are.

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Important thing is to let your family KNOW what you want and why. That way in the event of your death there is no guess work for them, they know what you truly wanted.

I am still an organ donor.

Also what I appreciate as well is people who donate while they are alive. My cousin is surviving Leukemia because someone in the US donated their bone marrow. I think 2 years to go before we can really breath easy, but she's doing great. Although she is massively allergic to fish now.

 

[keco52]

I'm a living donor. I have been since my brother had AML. He's been in remission for almost 7 years now I think.

 

[dilla]

Donating marrow is very painful but it's definitely going to an even sicker person than a blood recipient. Well, usually. But it hurts like hell but they pay well so I guess there's a bright side to it.

Pretty sure I'll be drawing blood from patients soon and I feel pretty good about it (referring to Rukas's fear of needles) whereas if you asked me two or three years ago, it was one of the more daunting things, I felt, about being a physician.

My dad had to give me a TB test and get some routine blood work done this past summer. He's been doing it a while, but I'm pretty sure he could have done it with his eyes closed. Where most doctors have the nurses do it, he usually does it himself to patients if he has the time. I went from being scared of needles, to simply afraid of sticking someone with one, to eventually wanting to be able to do that shit routine.

 

[Synful*Luv]

I'm an organ donor but by accident. They asked at the DMV and I panicked and said yes because the line was long and people were grouchy. The question caught me off guard. And I've been too lazy to get back in line at the DMV and change it.

I really don't want to be an organ donor as listed on my license. However, if I'm already dead i'm okay with someone close to me offering my organs. I have a huge fear (and perhaps it's irrational) of being near life or death and having the docs on call not do all they can to save me in order to harvest my inner goodies. D: