Should I be a donor?

[Renob]

Should I be a donor?

Now thats a silly question.












YES is the answer.

 

[bromer]

Originally posted by: Muadib
I never gave it much thought either, until my brother needed a heart and lungs. If you gotta checkout, you might as well help someone.

Totally.. I signed up af one of my friends was in a accident.. he didn't need any transplan though 🙂

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Tominator

Originally posted by: Geekbabe

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
No, you shouldn't. Doctors don't make all the efforts they can, if you're a donor, to save your life. No way in hell I'm giving those money-grubbing bastards a reason to not try their damndest to keep me alive if need be.

nik

Actually Nik that's not true at all, Transplant facilities have internal Ethics commitees in addition to outside agency monitoring, a known organ donor might well receive even more effort to save his/her life.The decision to declare the patient brain dead is not made lightly.

And the family is included in the decision making process.

So my doctor of 21 years who told me this was pulling my leg? 😕

nik

 

[Lady In Red]

Yes I'm an organ donor.

Let them take anything that can be used and then throw the rest in the furnace.

I rather the worms not eat what's left of me!! :disgust:

 

[Thegonagle]

I'm a doner. Everybody who knows me knows that I would gladly give what I can no longer use.

And no, I don't think the docs are going to just sit there and let me bleed to death just because they looked at the back of my license. What the hell kind of thinking is that? I'm thinking someone's a little paranoid.

 

[SherEPunjab]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: Tominator

Originally posted by: Geekbabe

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
No, you shouldn't. Doctors don't make all the efforts they can, if you're a donor, to save your life. No way in hell I'm giving those money-grubbing bastards a reason to not try their damndest to keep me alive if need be.

nik

Actually Nik that's not true at all, Transplant facilities have internal Ethics commitees in addition to outside agency monitoring, a known organ donor might well receive even more effort to save his/her life.The decision to declare the patient brain dead is not made lightly.

And the family is included in the decision making process.

So my doctor of 21 years who told me this was pulling my leg? 😕

nik

You still visit a pediatrician?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: SherEPunjab

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: Tominator

Originally posted by: Geekbabe

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
No, you shouldn't. Doctors don't make all the efforts they can, if you're a donor, to save your life. No way in hell I'm giving those money-grubbing bastards a reason to not try their damndest to keep me alive if need be.

nik

Actually Nik that's not true at all, Transplant facilities have internal Ethics commitees in addition to outside agency monitoring, a known organ donor might well receive even more effort to save his/her life.The decision to declare the patient brain dead is not made lightly.

And the family is included in the decision making process.

So my doctor of 21 years who told me this was pulling my leg? 😕

nik

You still visit a pediatrician?

Oh. 😱 😀 No, I just only remember going to this guy. 😛 Forgive me, I've felt ill for two days.

nik

 

[Gnurb]

what religion says that you have to keep your organs intact? that's (imo) absurd.

 

[911paramedic]

Always been a doner myself and I think unless it is against your religion, you should be too.

I had the great experience of assisting with an organ transplant years ago. A 20 year old guy was shot in the head and was brain dead. I flew to the Monterey area with the SF university transplant team to assist. (a member of our SAR team was a transplant tech and the doc said I could assist)

We did all the surgical work, in fact I held the beating heart in my hands, and that is what we were there for. There was another team from UC Davis that was "harvesting" (sounds bad, but it is what they call it) the abdominal organs. We got ready, and they cut off the life support, and we all harvested the organs. The heart only lasts a couple hours so we rushed out and flew back to SF with it.

That organ doner saved six peoples lives. I was lucky enough to know the nurse that did the "dispersion" and she updated me a few months later. The fact that one person dying from gang violence and ending up saving six lives is enough for me.

I have had since I was 16, and always will have, a doner card on my license. I am now 36 and still stand behind it.

It may be because I am in the medical profession, but I think thtat organ donation is the best thing you can do. Trust me, if you have a "doner" card. that does not make the doctors work less. The doctors rarely know if you even have it until after your death. So forget about the "urban legend" that if you have a doner card they will try less or just let you die.

 

[polypterus]

Originally posted by: 911paramedicAlways been a doner myself and I think unless it is against your religion, you should be too.

I think even if it is against your religion you still should be.

dc

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: AndyTriboletti
what religion says that you have to keep your organs intact? that's (imo) absurd.

None that I am aware of.
The question of whether or not one should be a donor is usually not a religious one. The actual issue is the sad and real fact that organ donations and transplantations are big business and, like Nik said, doctors do NOT do everything possible to save the lives of potential donors, except insofar as what effort they must do in order to keep the organs acceptable for donation. There have been many unbiased and true articles about this, feel free to look them up yourselves.
The reality is that dead people, in the common sense of the word, do not provide organs that are acceptable for donation. Once the heart stops beating and the blood stops flowing, the organs are worthless to the doctors. Therefore, the "harvest" (actual word used by organ donor doctors) must begin before death, before the heart has stopped beating. And despite common myth, there is no "consultation with family" or anything like that. The process is far too fast. Once a potential donor candidate (young serious accident victim) enters the emergency room/trauma ward, a determination is made if the life can be saved or not. If the determination is "probably not," then medications are began to induce (or hasten) brain death while keeping the heart beating. Once brain death occurs, the harvest begins, with the heart still beating.
In fact, 2-3 years ago the DA of Cleveland, OH threatened to indict the directors of the local organ donor department for murder because of some of the lethal drug combinations that they were giving to donor candidates in order to speed up brain death (and thus increase their successful harvest ratio).
There are many, many books and articles on this subject, I suggest some folks read up. It is far from a religious issue.


edited for spelling

 

[michaelh20]

If you've watched some movies, you'd be aware of some of the potential hazards....



"We've come for your liver!"

"But, I'm not dead yet!"

 

[Ender]

I prefer not to be gutted like a fish, sorry.

 

[TwinkleToes77]

Originally posted by: Merkon
I prefer not to be gutted like a fish, sorry.

But you wouldnt know, you'd be dead. Unless ofcourse you are donating a kidney or a bit of your liver.