Are you a registered Organ Donor?

[Ricochet]

OK, i know this isn't the most pleasant of topics, but they have just been discussing it on the radio and i thought I'd raise the awareness to the cause.
The nation is extremely short of organ donors. This is NOT a thread for discussion of the ethics of organ donation, it is just to give you a link to the relevant website if you would like to sign up for a donor card, and maybe help others to live, after you have passed on. You never know, maybe one day you, or one of your loved ones might need this.
Here is the link if you would like to sign up
http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/how_to_become_a_donor/registration/consent.jsp
or go to www.uktransplant.org.uk (http://www.uktransplant.org.uk)
I have signed up
Sarah x

[DoGbOt]

I'll donate to smokers only!!

As my freedom of choice has been removed!!

[DJMCJERICO]

I don't like this new thing they may be bringing out were you have to opt out of it, I prefer the donor card as you can choose what parts they can have.

[Ricochet]

I'll donate to smokers only!!

As my freedom of choice has been removed!!

lol ok here we go again. what did i say in my last post?
This has nothing to do with whether you smoke or not, it's about saving lives.

WE ARE ALL HUMAN IN THE END. One day a non smoker may give you an organ, or maybe not. How would that be? They might say, yes you need a lung transplant but sorry, this non smoker said he will only give it to other non smokers. Hard luck, sorry n all that.

This no smokeing thing is to do with the polititations, not the poor normal person who might die without your organ, which you 'reserved' for 'smokers only'.
Would you give your organ to your non smokeing girlfriend/mum/father/son?
(speaking hypothetically here)

[Morris]

I have already done this, it was on my drivers license application and i put to donate any and all my organs if i pass. id rather more people lived when i die.

[MICKTLS]

time in finished with my organs they wont want them lol

[DoGbOt]

lol ok here we go again. what did i say in my last post?

Nope afraid not i dont share, unless i'm being paid for the spare parts (payment in bikes is allowed) i came in with all my bits & i will be leaving with them all,

Besides i share my body parts with my GF all the time!! wink wink:laugh1

[SDM]

I'll donate to smokers only!!

As my freedom of choice has been removed!!

I'm with BB on this one..............if I'm not good enough for them we I'm alive then aarrhh soles to them :grin2

[STEALTH52]

Yep im not going to donate, i want to be able to have choices about what bits & who they go to.

[UKSkidMark]

I give blood - I may need it back some day!
I'm on the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Register, which meant another blood sample, and one day I hope I can save someone's life by donating.
I donate to the RNIB and support the Essex Air Ambulance.
I also carry a donor card in my wallet, and have let my feelings on the subject known to my parents.

One day I may need someone else to do one of the above, to help me, or someone I love.

My father was diagnosed with Cancer earlier this year, and it's been pretty tough on him, and our family. He's received blood transfusions prior to his chemo.

However it's always down to personal choice. I know of people who would love to donate, but are afraid of needles. So they do other things to help instead.

[the captain]

Nope afraid not i dont share, unless i'm being paid for the spare parts (payment in bikes is allowed) i came in with all my bits & i will be leaving with them all,

I'm with BB on this one..............if I'm not good enough for them we I'm alive then aarrhh soles to them :grin2

Yep im not going to donate, i want to be able to have choices about what bits & who they go to.

Oh my life

I never knew some members on this site were so petty!!

Dudes, youre gonna be dead, you wont need em anymore!!!

Its this small minded attitude that means people are dying because of a shortage of organs!

I'm almost 100% certain that any one of you would do a right goodun if you or a loved one were refused an organ because of this mentality you seem to have adopted!

you can argue the toss as much as you like, at the end of the day though you may be directly responsible for letting someones mother, father sibling or child die!
all because you feel hard done by for one reason or another!





Please note, im not just picking on the 3 quoted here...it'd be the same for anyone who thinks along the same lines!

[Lateshift]

Surely its down to personal choice?

Not that its going to go through as there are already surgeons opposed to this specifically because its yet another "we arent asking you, we are telling you!" scenario ;)

Whilst i think the no smoking part of this argument is a weak one i do think that its down to a person to decide even after death what goes in the bin and what goes elsewhere, much the same as you would generally respect someone's dying wish to be cremated ;)

If i am told i have to do it, then it wont happen, if i am convinced that my liver isnt going to someone with George Best's track record, my heart isnt going into some paedophile and any other important bits arent going into any criminal then i would probably be convinced but the sad reality is that you can bet top dollar that there is people on that list that wont deserve a second chance, much the same as any non smoker on here seems to think smokers deserve everything they get ;)

[STEALTH52]

Oh my life

I never knew some members on this site were so petty!!

Dudes, youre gonna be dead, you wont need em anymore!!!

Its this small minded attitude that means people are dying because of a shortage of organs!

I'm almost 100% certain that any one of you would do a right goodun if you or a loved one were refused an organ because of this mentality you seem to have adopted!

you can argue the toss as much as you like, at the end of the day though you may be directly responsible for letting someones mother, father sibling or child die!
all because you feel hard done by for one reason or another!





Please note, im not just picking on the 3 quoted here...it'd be the same for anyone who thinks along the same lines!

It's not being petty at all mate, as lateshift said its personal choice. End of discussion in my eyes.
I have my reasons for the way that i feel about it & that it's my choice as to where they go.

Anyway could we perhaps talk about a not so morbid topic! :grin2

[SDM]

you can argue the toss as much as you like, at the end of the day though you may be directly responsible for letting someones mother, father sibling or child die!
all because you feel hard done by for one reason or another!

Shane

If it come to the decision that there was one organ ready for transplant and two person waiting for this organ. One was a NON smoker and the other was a smoker, I'd bet any money that the NON smoker would get the transplant.

But as you rightly said I'd be dead anyway...............................

[the captain]

Im not arguing about peoples personal choice, its just some of the reasons for it i have trouble with.

I can understand to a degree some of the points raised, but im just the kinda person who goes from day to day as it happens....im not fussed by much at all. I guess its this attitude i have of "doesnt bother me, im dead anyway" that makes it hard to understand the whole (for example, and im not picking on you BikeBasher) what do i get out of it way of thinking!

Some would say im quite emotionaly unattached, if i die i die, not much i can do about it, deal with it! if my bits and pieces can help someone cool.....yeah it'll be unfortunate if they go to someone less deserving but again, not much i can do about it.

At the end of the day, smoker or not, anyone on here is welcome to my body parts once im gone!

I got and incredibly clean set of lungs and liver!!

[DoGbOt]

(for example, and im not picking on you BikeBasher)

no offence taken at all cap'n,

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but i do have to say after all i am only human & if someone comes a knocking & tugs my heart strings the right way i can be talked into almost anything!!

I did shave all my hair off & dye my goatie pink in aid of a friends boy who needed a dialasis machine at the time,

so if its the right cause & proposed to me correctly you have half a chance,

I have been described as a "get him at the right moment" sorta guy rele!!

:jumping2

[Ricochet]

Im not arguing about peoples personal choice, its just some of the reasons for it i have trouble with.

At the end of the day, smoker or not, anyone on here is welcome to my body parts once im gone!

I got and incredibly clean set of lungs and liver!!

I have exactly the same set of views as you hun! once i'm gone, if i can help another to live on then my life will have been all the better lived.

Shock! Horror! I wouldn't even mind if they went to a smoker :shooter
Knowing that they had a nice clean set of lungs, maybe they would see sence and give up smokeing! lol

[the captain]

dye my goatie pink
:jumping2

watch it...you'll have the animal rights lot jump in next!!!:grin2

[Robinsonofronald]

My Brother and three other people got to live.
I dont know his name ,but I thank him from the bottom of my heart.
My brother-in-law gave parts to seven people, on his death.
Please carry the card.

[Pocket Rocket]

While we still have free speach & freedom & all that then it's personal pref what organs you donate & yes you can't choose who's more deserving. I'm signed up as an op on driving license said take the lot might as well as can't use them once not here.

The thing about smokers & non-smokers admitedly if the non-smoker is more deserving then yes. But at the same time the non-smoker could have got in a bad way otherways i.e don't smoke but takes drugs & really the smoker deserves it. I'd like to think that who ever gets them is deserving in their own right & the organs go to good use.

[gixxergal]

I am a donor and have changed my card to Smokers only ....... (I work for NHS, and can see all the pit falls/Repercussions (financial wise)with the No smoking ban in a few years time

I do think it should be an opt out though

[Comfortably Numb]

I'm kind off a bit shocked and disappointed at some of your replies. What good is your dead body to you after you are dead - it's just worm food so let someone see, breathe and live again. As to wanting to chose who the bits goto the hospital already do this so the most deserving get your liver etc.

[DoGbOt]

I'm kind off a bit shocked and disappointed at some of your replies. What good is your dead body to you after you are dead - it's just worm food so let someone see, breathe and live again. As to wanting to chose who the bits goto the hospital already do this so the most deserving get your liver etc.

Well i am truly sorry that my own personal opinion has urm well saddend you in some way shape or form...........

But im afraid while i am still allowed to express my own opinion on the matter.... Count me out....... An once i've made my mind up, its made up & no amount of sob stories or begging will change that, i am not & will not be a turnpike on this subject just to appear as though i've been reformed or touched by some miracle story, cos at the end of the day not only does it get dark.......... for the time being it remains MY choice!

SoRry................. However if they make it compulsory well then i wont fight it cos it aint worth the energy, i shall spend the saved energy on ensuring i use them for as long as possible......:grin1

But then again as it said right at the beggining of the thread,

This is NOT a thread for discussion of the ethics of organ donation, it is just to give you a link to the relevant website if you would like to sign up

So i really dont have to justify i'm afraid

[Webby]

Any member of my immediate family can have anything that still works. Anyone else can do one.

My religious beliefs don't actually permit a post mortem so I hope I don't ever need one. In the ground whole as I was as born is me I hope.