Would you donate your organs?

[Jesterarts]

What if it went to a gay guy? LOL!

Any holes a goal...

 

[scouser king]

I would if i could,iam a pom

 

[Drewie]

Every year I've put YES on my license forms saying I'd donate. Not once has it been recognised and put on my license.

Last time I was at Medicare they had forms there for becoming a donor, I filled one in and received a credit card size card back saying I was now a registered organ donor.

 

[a1k3m1]

I'd feel sorry for the poor bastard who got mine.. haha

lol, but that would still be you in a different body?.. Going to sleep and then waking up in a different body ... woah.. lol

 

[Garth]

id be dead, so they can have what ever is left that might still work

 

[HuskeyVR]

I clicked yes, but i was born in the u.k so i cant give blood because of that, does anyone know if its the same for organs?

 

[kuzman89]

why can't you give blood? Because of your blue blood??

thanks for the feedback everyone... only 6 people have said no so far. Australia isn't particulary religeous in terms of 'i need my organs for the afterlife' or anything so what would you say would be the main reasons for people being against donation?


again cheers for the feedback.

 

[monkeys437]

I am NOT registered as an organ donor. The reason for this is if I happen to suffer from a car accident, any serious illness/incident etc. Where I might be hanging in the balance, I would preferably want to survive. If im a registered organ donor, whats to stop a doctor from putting a pillow over my face and ending it all just to redistribute my organs to people more worthy. What if a doctors 5 y.o compatible-to-my-organs sick daughter is in the next room in the hospital waiting for a Heart?
In my life Ive found doctors and medical practitioners to be unethical and untrustworthy (on par with used car salesman), so I dont want to leave myself vulnerable to their judgment.

Having said that, my family know that if I die they can feel free to donate my organs, but under no circumstances will I ever register.

 

[kuzman89]

thanks for the feedback monkeys, I will keep that in mind as to one reason some people may not wish to register.

Here is the donatelife response:

Doctors won’t work as hard to save my life if they
know I’m a donor.
Reality:
Not so. Medical staff do everything possible to save lives.
Their first duty is to you and saving your life. Organ and
tissue donation will only be considered after all efforts
fail and you have been legally declared dead. Usually, the
Australian Organ Donor Register is only checked after you
have died.
In most cases, a person may only be able to donate organs
where they have been declared brain dead in an intensive
care unit in hospital. Brain death is when blood circulation
to the brain ceases, and the brain stops functioning and
dies with no possibility of recovery. A series of tests carried
out by two independent and appropriately qualified senior
doctors establishes that brain death has occurred.
People are sometimes confused about the difference
between brain death and coma. Brain death is completely
different from coma. A patient in a coma is unconscious
because their brain is injured in some way, but their brain
can continue to function and may heal. Medical tests can
clearly distinguish between brain death and coma.

 

[HuskeyVR]

why can't you give blood? Because of your blue blood??

yeah soumthing like that

nah its to do with mad cow disseas or something, they cant track it in humans or something like that i think its if you where in england for over 6 months between 1980 something and 1999. not too sure