Organ donation?

i'd donate anything that was of any use. i'm on the organ donor register and i carry an organ donor card with me everywhere i go.

on the other hand, i'd like to think i was gonna live to old age. in which case being on the organ donor register would be of little significance. they prefer to use younger donors. for instance, an 80 year old heart would be pretty useless.

Does no one feel that it would be incredibly insensitive to have you cut open almost immediately after dying (considering organs don't stay "fresh" forever once you're dead ) and ripped apart, when your family might just like to see you again in your coffin and not a burst balloon with your face?

I wish I had chosen the partial donation now. I would donate, I think, things on my inside. But they'll take anything the can and I would prefer them not to take, say, my eyes, as if I was in, like, an open coffin, it would stressful for people I think.

Though personally, if I were ever to have a loved one, I would tell 'em just to dump my body in a bin bag and wait for garbage day. I don't really care about a grave or anything.

I also herad that sometimes, they can't tell if you are still alive of not because your vital signs are so low, and slow. That's why my dad said he would never be an organ donor as he didn't want to run the risk of them actually killing, as him in the ensuing rush to get the organs out they may miss the chance to realise that he is still alive.

It's not insensitive if they're respecting your wishes. If you hadn't told them you wanted to be a donor, and they decided they'd cut your organs out after you died, that might be insensitive, but if you've expressed your wish to be a donor, they're doing what you wanted them to. If any of my family members think it's insensitive to take my organs out after I'm dead, that's their choice, but frankly it's my body and I'll give parts of it to whomever I want to.

That was another of my worries... your heart can stop for around 4 minutes before you start to die. Within those 4 minutes they will have you on an operating table with your back open removing your kidneys, because if they don't, your kidneys start to 'die' too, and become useless. If, during those 4 minutes, your heart starts again, you're still alive... as long as your kidneys haven't already been removed.


I mean insensitive towards your family who might have to see basically a skeleton (no internal organs, no eyes, maybe skin taken off) of you as you lie in your coffin, rather than your full body. If you fell under a bus or something you'd be rushed to hospital, and if you died, you'd be cut open, straight away. No goodbyes from your family (pointless as it is when you're dead, it would still hold important emotional value for them). That would be insensitive.