Organ donation-Yay or nay?

Yeah. It's not like I'm going to need them.

Quick question: I registered to be an organ donor online, so presumably I am on the list, but they never sent me a donor card. I thought they would so that they can know more quickly that I am a donor, they can just look in my wallet. Is it normal to not get sent a card these days? Anyone know?

That's interesting, I didn't know that. Are they allowed to override even after 18?

Here in the US it's the decision of the individual and no one can do anything to override. My parents are fine with it now, as they've grown to understand my religious outlook compared to two years ago when I had to make the decision to be a donor.

42What will happen if my relatives object?

We know that in most cases families will agree to donation if they knew that was their loved one’s wish. If the family, or those closest to the person who has died, object to the donation when the person who has died has given their explicit permission, either by telling relatives, close friends or clinical staff, or by carrying a donor card or registering their wishes on the NHS Organ Donor Register, healthcare professionals will discuss the matter sensitively with them. They will be encouraged to accept the dead person’s wishes and it will be made clear that they do not have the legal right to veto or overrule those wishes. There may, nevertheless, be cases where it would be inappropriate for donation to go ahead.

Some people would have had diseased organs from birth and thus would not be allowed to join the register...

I became an organ donor around a month ago and seemed pretty indifferent about it. I told my rents and my dad shrugged it off but my mum was like 'Okay, but I can over ride that decision.'

I signed up because if I was unfortunate enough to need an organ I'd like it before I died, so why not be the donor?

Well anyway, I just want to hear your views on organ donation, are you against it, or do you embrace it?

Reasons please.

It was like a month between me signing up online and receiving my donor card. It took so long to come that I almost forgot that I signed up. When did you sign up?

i've wanted to become an organ donor for ages, but haven't a clue where to sign up. last time i went to give blood i asked about organ donating and they were pretty snooty with me haha, informing me that giving blood and being an organ donator were entirely different things!

i've wanted to become an organ donor for ages, but haven't a clue where to sign up. last time i went to give blood i asked about organ donating and they were pretty snooty with me haha, informing me that giving blood and being an organ donator were entirely different things!

Uh like 18 months ago. I actually signed up a second time maybe a year ago because I thought I might have done something wrong the first time, but still, nothing has come from them.

Oh, that's weird because I found the link to organ donation on the give blood site.


try this
http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/default.jsp

Hope that helps

Why would you much rather die than have blood or an organ from somebody else?
Did you know some people have pigs organs? They seem fine with it.

Do you believe in the after life?

good, stupid people dying is no problem to me, speeds up our evolution as a species

Just curious, would you feel the same if a loved one needed an organ and/or blood?

This is fundamentally where a person who is an organ donor who is dying will be moved from the ward to ITU, put onto a ventilator and allowed to lapse into a coma. Then when brain stem death occurs, their organs would be removed. The problem with this was that people's last moments were being needlessly spent on ITU and not on the ward with their family/invasive treatment etc.