organ donation

[hightara]

would love to hear your views on this........my son has to do a three minute debate without being biased, he has chosen organ donation.

i am on the organ donor register and so are my eldest..... god forbid if anything happens to my younger ones.. i would also donate.

questions.  if you don't want to donate.......would you accept an organ for you or your children etc?

                 if you are not on the register...should you take precedence over those that are?

[chickengrandma-2008]

I am on the organ donor register, have been for years.  I think it should be changed to opting out rather than opting in.  Let's face it, even if I wasn't on the register I would accept a donation for my loved ones.

[hightara]

CG i was just saying that to him...........about opting out instead of opting in.

but some people have religious beliefs ....... i would like to know.... if they would fore-go them if they needed an organ.

[welshtoff]

They can have whatever they need from me when i am gone! Not much use to me then is it?

They did ask if I would donate bone after my 1st hip operation, but then they discovered my bone wasn't worth having :^O

I agree that is should be opt out rather than opt in.

[chickengrandma-2008]

I've never been asked that (yet) welshie, although I did think about asking to bring it home for the dog.:|  ONLY JOKING!!!!   I think I'll steer clear of any soup on the menu though.;-)

[merc1_clocks]

As above...

should be opt out - not opt in  IMO

[ilove2patch]

As above & above.:-D

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

I think it should be opt in.  Just the same as allowing your medical records to be put on a national database - opt in every time.

There had to be a post mortem when my mum died, and even though I knew and understood the reason I found that very distressing.

I would have found it even harder if her organs had gone to a drug addict, alcoholic (remember George Best) or even worse sold to a foreign national, and there is more of that going on than anyone would like to admit.

[stan3502]

Our grandson was on the transplant list for 5 years but sadly never got the organs he required.

He needed new lungs and a liver due to having Cystic Fibrosis , sadly he passed away at just 12 years old.

Obviously as a family now we are all on the donation register and are also on the Anthony Nolan bone marrow register which is something that allows you to save a life while still being perfectly fit and well yourself

Here in Wales they are actually trying to pass the opt out law.

[huggles1253]

They can have any bits of me that they want. I have however warned my nearest and dearest that my liver is probably past its best!

[merc1_clocks]

:^O:^O:^O huggles

[stan3502]

They can have any bits of me that they want. I have however warned my nearest and dearest that my liver is probably past its best!

:^O you and I both

[chickengrandma-2008]

I don't think there'll be anything of mine worth having.:|

[hightara]

oh stan.......... so sorry about your grandson......:-x

i'm trying not to be biased here..........as my son wants views from everyone.

apart from children....... do you think those not on the register (adults) should get a donated organ?

do you think that those that are.........should have priority?

[merc1_clocks]

* wonders if someone is wearing my finger *

[twishy123]

* wonders if someone is wearing my finger *

only on a necklace Merc ;\

*pinches Merc back on the bum 😛 * >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

:-x

[ilove2patch]

oh stan.......... so sorry about your grandson......:-x

i'm trying not to be biased here..........as my son wants views from everyone.

apart from children....... do you think those not on the register (adults) should get a donated organ?

do you think that those that are.........should have priority?

Interesting question. Would it make more people put their names on the register I wonder? 

[stan3502]

you'd think as a family of a person on the list we would approve of the opt out system but actually we don't as it throws up as many arguments about next of kins rights as it does to remove them.

I also believe that everybody is entitled to be on the recieving end of a transplant and the only priority should be compatability and the urgency with which the reciepient requires it

[guardpig]

Not sure I have anything worth having at my age.

Sorry but it should be opt in.  I certainly wouldn't trust some of the Docs I've met to know whether i was dead or not.  If they want bits of me and OH agrees they can have what they want but there's no way I'm going on a list for it to be automatic.

Yes, I think everybody in medical need should be entitled whether they are on the list or not.  Son was quite keen to donate but(he went all quiet about it) I suspect being type 1 diabetic there's not a lot they'd want.  Why should his inability to donate preclude him from receipt.

On a personal level I would not have refused anything for the kids but, whilst still fit and healthy, I really am in two minds about whether I would want to live enough to accept a donor organ.

[wizilizi]

This is one of those issues that is so very difficult to address & to know how one might feel

I go along with not discriminating as to who should receive an organ - we are none of us perfect, & addicts (singled out earlier) do not choose to become addicts.  People who do not become addicts make the more active choice, I believe - addiction comes from pressure, whatever form that takes for the individual, not design

As to donation, I concur that the point of death can be nebulous, but as long as we have systems in our society to maintain legal & procedural verification, I feel that donation should be opt out - as should receipt

The main problem seems to me to be the time-limiting factors in donation.  it is my understanding that progress is being made in this area