Organ donation-Yay or nay?

The only possible remotely logical opinion I've ever heard is that someone felt that medics might be less inclined go full out to save their life, if they thought their organs would save another one of their patients. Especially as they would already have a relationship with that person... so if you died, your death is eased by them saving a patient they've got to know type thing. Though, they don't even properly find out if your a donor or not till you die... so it's a rubbish excuse.

Organ donation is permissible in Islam.

Its anextremely mis informed post you have made

1) The medic looking after the 'donor' will never be looking after the recipient.
2) All transplants are decided by a transplant committee who have little to no contact with the patients directly. THey decide which organ goes where.
3) THe patients we are talking about tend to be those with brain injuries. THeir brain is caput - they are brain dead, but other organs still work fine. There is a complicated and long winded system involved in checking for brain death. It isn't something made lightly.


Might I suggest some of those sharing the above view look into organ transplantation. You'd be surprised at the reality.

Yes; I value the lives of others greater than mine.
Do you need to be 18 to be registered?

Yes, I am on the register, everything but my eyes and skin (doubt they'd want my eyes anyway, I am short sighted)

some people donate their lungs, parts of liver and so on something which I am not prepared to do. I don't see it as a contradiction. I will do this only if there is absolutely no way for them so survive unless and I am the only person that can help. other wise no. I don't judge people if they want to give away parts of their body however it's not something I would happily volunteer unless, like I said, my family member cannot survive without my help in particular due to gene miss match or whatever.

It's personal choice and this is how I chose to be, to live, to die.

No. I will never do it.

And what's with all these people saying "everything but my eyes"? They don't take the whole eye out and give it to someone else. They just take the cornea off and transplant it.

Or more accurately, they take the entire eye out, give it a wash and then remove the cornea (and occassionally the sclera) for transplanting. It's way too much hassle to keep an eye clean whilst it's still in a dead guy. People who don't like the idea of having someone walking round with their eyes have no need to worry. People who don't like the idea of having their eyes removed are entitled to their choices. Better to give people a choice than to have an all or none donation system, corneas are in pretty low demand compared to most organs.

Well I stand corrected - the guidance doc for removal of corneas for transplantation isn't working for me, but I would have thought they could remove the cornea just as easily with it inside the body. My understanding was that all procedures to obtain organs/tissue were carried out to the same standard as would be expected of a live patient.

I think that organ donation should be an opt out system though - if people feel so strongly about not giving organs then they'll register. If they don't care either way then they will be donors.

As for the opt out system, you could be right about that but it's unproven whether or not your theory is right. Are Spain's organ donation figures better per 1000 deaths (where the deceased would be eligible as a donor) or something like that? That's the only way I'd compare the two. I think that the whole seat belt thing is a bit of a red herring - there may be more suitable deaths but I'm not aware of any figures showing that of those that die and are suitable to donate organs are better in one country than any other.

I like the idea of "rewarding" organ donors with priority treatment (if there is a patient in a similar clinical condition as you and only one organ and you're a donor and he isn't... you get it!) as it seems quite fair. Like store cards though, you shouldn't get the benefits this visit, but the benefits will be seen when you make a return visit!