Are you a organ donor ?

[Captain Shaw]

After a talk that I have just had with my brother I was just wondering how many people on here are organ donors?
I became one a few weeks ago when, I signed up for a boots advantaged card I ticked the box asking me if I wanted to become a donor.

 

[Danny99]

I am.

The way I figure it: if I'm dead, I won't be using them.

Anything that can extend someones life I'm for; that's why I donate blood too!

 

[John Picard]

I would like to donate an organ if I could just find a willing female recipient.

 

[1001001]

Yes, I am an organ donor.

Funny story (well, it's funny now)....

When my mother died, the organ people at the hospital called to talk to my dad. They said they had to get his consent to harvest her organs and tissues (I'm still not clear why, other than to avoid lawsuits). The woman said she had to ask him specific questions, and record his answers.

So, this woman he doesn't know starts in with every piece of my mom, one at a time:

Can we have her eyes?
Yes
Can we have her liver?
Yes
Can we have her lungs?
Yes

And this went on for a good ten, fifteen minutes. It was surreal, especially since my mom had only been dead a couple of hours. But my dad knew mom was an organ donor, she had talked to us all about it, and it was important to her. So he soldiered on through this ridiculous and unnecessary exercise.

Finally the call was over, and he hung up and we cried.

About a minute later, the phone rings. It's the Organ Lady, sounding terrible. She says "I'm so sorry, but the recorder didn't work. We have to do it over again."

I have often wondered what was going through her mind as she realized her mistake and thought about calling my poor dad back. I'll bet that sucked.

Anyway, one of the bizarre things when a loved one dies, I guess.

 

[scotpens]

Yes, I have an organ donor card in my wallet. If I should expire before my time, someone else might as well benefit from my body, or whatever parts of it are salvageable.

In fact, I find it difficult to understand the rationale of people who refuse to be organ donors. Even if you believe in an afterlife, it's not as if you'll need your physical body in the next world.

(Unless you follow the ancient Egyptian religion, but there aren't too many Isis or Osiris worshippers today. Except in Southern California.)

 

[RyanKCR]

I am unable to be a donor but I'm might become a recipient.

 

[cultcross]

Yeah, registered on the organ donor registry, although I wish they still sent you a card or something, I often think 'I wonder if my form got lost in the post'.

 

[Deckerd]

This is a strange question. I imagine there isn't anyone here who is personally an organ donor (smutty innuendo aside). We might carry cards saying we are willing to donate but I sincerely doubt there are any actual donors here.

 

[trekkiedane]

When I'm dead they can do with the corpse whatever they will which is why I ages ago registered as a donor and to give the rest to science.

 

[Daneel]

I have a card in my wallet that identifies me as an organ donor. Plus, I'm pretty sure my family is aware that I would want my organs to be donated in the event of my death. Hopefully, that's enough, and I haven't overlooked some sort of technicality that would prevent my organs from being used.

 

[1001001]

This is a strange question. I imagine there isn't anyone here who is personally an organ donor (smutty innuendo aside). We might carry cards saying we are willing to donate but I sincerely doubt there are any actual donors here.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Yeah, registered on the organ donor registry, although I wish they still sent you a card or something, I often think 'I wonder if my form got lost in the post'.

My brother got a card made out of cardboard.
I did not notice the organ donor logo on the back of my boots card at first so I was wondering if they had me on their list.

 

[Captain Shaw]

This is a strange question. I imagine there isn't anyone here who is personally an organ donor (smutty innuendo aside). We might carry cards saying we are willing to donate but I sincerely doubt there are any actual donors here.

Smart ass

 

[cultcross]

By sheer numbers, there are reasonable odds of there being at least 1 person on the board who has donated an organ - but whether they'll post in this thread...

 

[Roger Wilco]

Yeah, in Austria everybody is, except if you explicitely say you don't want it. And I'm ok with that, why just burn/bury a dead body when it could still be some use to other people?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Yes, I am an organ donor.

This is a strange question. I imagine there isn't anyone here who is personally an organ donor (smutty innuendo aside). We might carry cards saying we are willing to donate but I sincerely doubt there are any actual donors here.

I, myself, have donated my brain to Humanity.

 

[cultcross]

Yeah, in Austria everybody is, except if you explicitely say you don't want it. And I'm ok with that, why just burn/bury a dead body when it could still be some use to other people?

We keep talking about the system being 'opt out' here but no-one seems quite willing to go ahead and actually pass the necessary Act. There has been a bit of a 'recruitment drive' for the Organ Donor Registry of late, with a poster campaign designed to attract registrations. I frankly can't see anything wrong with an opt-out system but I suspect it would get some bad press, something our new govt can ill afford at the moment.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Yeah, in Austria everybody is, except if you explicitely say you don't want it. And I'm ok with that, why just burn/bury a dead body when it could still be some use to other people?

The government was going to bring in a system like that over here but they had to scarp it for some reason.
Probably afraid of lawsuits.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Yeah, I understand why it could be politically difficult to implement something like that. In Austria it was done in the 50s already I think, and most people probably don't even know about it now.

 

[scotpens]

@ 1001001: Orson Welles in Citizen Kane? What am I missing here?

This is a strange question. I imagine there isn't anyone here who is personally an organ donor (smutty innuendo aside). We might carry cards saying we are willing to donate but I sincerely doubt there are any actual donors here.

Okay, let's rephrase the question: “WILL you be an organ donor when you're fucking DEAD!!??”