Would you become an organ donor? (13)
jon1972: There is an urgent need for more donors, so please consider becoming a donor and letting your family know your wishes.
I have a good kidney for 20,000 bucks if anyone is interested
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Liver or Hammond?
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jon1972: There is an urgent need for more donors, so please consider becoming a donor and letting your family know your wishes.
I am "officially" registred as a donor. My donor's card is always in my wallet together with my ID. Of course, family, friends & my doctor have a copy of this card.
I also stated that after my death, I want my body to be given to a University Medecine dept for research or teaching to students.
I wrote all this when I was 19 years old. I'm now 63. You see this will did not hasten my death, as some people are afraid of.
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of course I would...
some one else can have my bits and pieces
if they are in any functioning order before I die
some one else can have my bits and pieces
if they are in any functioning order before I die
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jon1972: There is an urgent need for more donors, so please consider becoming a donor and letting your family know your wishes.
excellent ... ill go to my Doc tomorrow and ask what do i need to become a downer
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Boban1: excellent ... ill go to my Doc tomorrow and ask what do i need to become a downer
Get drunk, talk about ur ex, politics and your crappy job - then we'll ALL become 'downers' ;)
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jon1972: There is an urgent need for more donors, so please consider becoming a donor and letting your family know your wishes.
I always carried a donor card when I lived in the UK because you have to register and "opt in" Here in Spain there is an "opt out" system, and Spain leads the way in transplantation of donated organs
The following story highlights their success.
Actions taken by Spanish physicians following the death of a British toddler in Spain may have outraged some tabloids in the UK, but they also helped highlight the policies that have made Spain the world leader in organ donations.
Two-year-old Megan Jones died of natural causes related to a viral infection during a family holiday in Spain, and her parents agreed to the removal of her liver and kidneys for transplant purposes. When her body was returned to the UK, however, other organs were found to be missing. (Spanish physicians are allowed to remove organs without permission during the postmortem process. They must seek permission to remove organs for transplantation purposes.)
Heavy media coverage of the case drew attention to Spain's phenomenally successful organ donation policies, which have seen the number of donations increase by 142% since 1989. Not only does Spain have the highest donation rate in Europe, with 34 donors per million people, but it is has almost 3 times the rate of 13 per million in the UK. Other rates range from 20 in France to 18.1 in Italy and 12.2 in Germany. In Canada, the donor rate is about 15 per million people.
Spanish officials had considered implementing a policy of presumed consent to boost the number of donors, but instead they created the Organizacion Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT), a network of transplant coordinators in 139 intensive care units across the country. ONT professionals identify potential organ donors by closely monitoring emergency departments and tactfully discussing the donation process with families of the deceased. (With presumed consent, people are assumed to be willing organ donors in the event of their death unless they or their families had specifically stated otherwise.) According to the ONT Web site, the number of kidney transplants from cadaver organs has risen from 1477 in 1992 to 1998 in 2002. During the same period, the number of liver transplants rose from 412 to 1003, pancreas transplants from 26 to 69 and heart transplants from 254 to 310.
A survey by Spanish researchers found that of 200 families that declined to have their relatives' organs donated, 78% changed their mind after the process was explained in detail.
Spain's success has attracted attention across the EU. In September, officials from 6 countries met in Frankfurt to discuss transplantation and agreed upon a statement calling for governments to increase donations toward Spanish levels.
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Thanks Jan1307. Very interesting comment.
In Belgium too, people are assumed to be willing organ donors in the event of their death unless they had specifically stated otherwise. I had my donor card 40 years before this new law.
In Belgium too, people are assumed to be willing organ donors in the event of their death unless they had specifically stated otherwise. I had my donor card 40 years before this new law.
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Sorry, my organs are going with me when I die. If I get sick and something fails, its my own fault and nobody lives forever, so I would just rather die when my time is up. Just personal preference for me, I couldn't imagine having anyone elses eyeball, kidney or other parts in my body to cheat death wnen I will die someday anyway, but that is my opinion.
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Its marked on my medicare card..organ donor..so is my oldest son
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I am a donor...
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Actually, I am the world´s only living brain donor - I thought I finished using using it..............doh!!!!!!!!!!
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