Organ donor's right to choose
As everyone has the right to choose to be a donorWhat is your opinion of the donors right to choose who gets the donated organ
Would you want your lungs to be given to a chain smoker or your liver to an alcoholic
After all if you have chosen to treat your body with respect and your organs are healthy enough to be considered suitable ...
Should you not have some say in the use of them
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It's a given ...
You ever weighed your dumplings. ..
In my country they are trying AGAIN to bring out a law that when anyone dies they can remove organs
Not an opt in just a take, WELL i did opted in, my choice, but when my choice it taken away, i will opt out.
I know the arguments about doners not enough, but if i did not have enough money i could not just take a bottle champagne of shop shelves== hope you get what i mean.
Your other point about choosing is a good one, maybe not a person per say but liver to alcoholic, the one about lungs though i stopped smoking 10years ago but still have lung condition were maybe i might need lung transplant??? problem for some i reckon, for me no i would not want some one elses organ inside me.
Good blog
I personally wouldn´t want any organ from someone else - even if it was to save my life - unless, of course, it was from a family member - as you end up inheriting some of the traits from that donor.
One thing which is getting more and more common these days is bone marrow transplant. They now have a much easier way to extract it from a person and donors are needed.
This, I would certainly volunteer if someone needs it, as my immune system is perfectly in order.
So I think...as far as receiving organs from a stranger...One has to be very careful of the source.
Having said that, I believe that my own DNA would far outweigh any potential traits from a donor.
My ex had to have a double transplant. He didn't query the origin of them, he was just grateful to the donor and the family for having donated them, and giving him a 2nd chance at life.
I too would be grateful.
euthanasia is my route.
The other about inheriting things from donars, well research at one time said some folk who had never been musical ended up playing piano. Later found out donar was a muscian.
Another person hated certain food but after transplant liked it, finding out donar loved that food.
Other research had been done too on how brainy someone was after transplant--meaning knowledge he had not known before.
I know stories--fictional, have had a blast at stories containing this and they were fun to read---well some, but they stemmed from this research. Not every transplant but some.
Now my reasons for not wanting transplant are not for inheriting this or that, just simply i do not want anothers organs in my body simplz
The rights or wrongs of that, i do not know, as in later years i did not follow up on this research as i knew i would not want a trasplant anyway.
I may just try and find new research as the one i was referring too was when i was in my twenties
I used the word "traits" which is a synonym for what you said ..or you could say gifts?
I'm on the organ donor list, and carry the tag on my car keys. Pity the poor lug gets my lungs, though.
As for being a donor... I am a donor. What they choose to do with body parts is inconsequential ... at that point I will be dead.
Anyone in need, would be just dandy.
It comes down to a question of ethics? What is wrong or right...happy to leave that decision to the hospital to make.
I won't be worrying about it, for sure.
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Taking time to check your preferences seems like a waste.
A good liver is not something you gain at life or earn , it is either there or not. You do can destroy it but also there is a social or genetic aspect.