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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?
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.
My license says I'm donating organs after death, so I suppose that's my answer.