Donating organs, your thoughts.

[LancsLad]

Hey LL. Was your spelling of lieberal above a pun? He just has easily could have been spouting con-servative rhetoric too.

It wasn't meant to be a pun, however, well spotted and good rejoinder. The Bear is basically apolitical or is that apathetic, I'm never sure. Either way ,he doesn't care.

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[LadyTY2Uall]

I am a donor. My family likes the idea of parts of me helping others live......

 

[Haus]

Beyond religious beliefs (which are beyond argument or discussion) I cannot conceive any reasonable argument against donation of every useful body part after death.

What the OP is really asking about is not organ donation, but dying and death, and how to control that when you're helpless and in the hand of your physicians and whoever has your power of attorney for personal care.

You do have such a person don't you? If you don't that's what you should be thinking about, not donation.

One is not helpless. There are well define rules on who can be a donor. For one, you have to be declared by two doctors. Two, the doctor only ask your next of kin when you are brain dead or if it is a cardiac death still on life support (very limited cases) after they exhaust everything to help you....so if they haven't even ask, they don't know if you will be a donor or not. Three, ususally it is not the doctor's role to ask, there is 'end of life' team that take care of the donation stuff.

 

[MissCroft]

Well I want to return the punning part of my brain to GB and Red.

Me too. And rubmeister...he needs it.

 

[good to go]

Doctors used to have to take the hippocritical oath as a prerequisite but that is no longer the case now. I believe that if you want to donate then do so, but i am not for it if you do not subscribe to this thought.

 

[oldjones]

One is not helpless. There are well define rules on who can be a donor. For one, you have to be declared by two doctors. Two, the doctor only ask your next of kin when you are brain dead or if it is a cardiac death still on life support (very limited cases) after they exhaust everything to help you....so if they haven't even ask, they don't know if you will be a donor or not. Three, ususally it is not the doctor's role to ask, there is 'end of life' team that take care of the donation stuff.

Didn't you mean to respond to the OP who specifically laid out a scenario of himself as 'helpless patient'? Both your scenario and mine assume there are next of kin, and their relationship gives them powers—would that include your unmarried gay partner? Of how many years?—but his scenario is more like the anonymous accident-victim.

Thanks for clarfying there are doctors devoted to saving you who are apart from the medical team devoted to harvesting organs if they cannot, which does go someways to answering his question. Still and all, the issues have to do with care at the time of death, and have zero to do with how the dead meat is disposed of.

But it's compforting to me to imagine I won't be wasted in some hole in the ground, like some hamburger past its sell-by date.

 

[Chivas Regal]

What do I need them for? I have been registered for 25 years.

 

[oil&gas]

I have an irrational fear of people taking stuff from me, ( as many people do ) but the truth of the matter is that if it is not taking soon after your passing it goes to waste and eventually turns to dust.

In my previous incarnation as the Pharaoh all my organs were
removed upon death to preserve my body by mummification.
There was no pain felt I assure you. My organs did not go to
waste--they were preserved in jars. I wish I had donated them
for a noble cause.