Are you an organ donor?

Ronni

Ronni

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Apologies if some folks find this an invasive or impolite question. That’s not my intent but I’ve discovered my curiosity about this is offensive to some.

I know that for religious reasons some people won’t donate their organs. I’m just curious the reasons folk have for donating, or not.

Personally, once I pass I’m done with my body. I intend to be cremated, I don’t intend to have a viewing or a funeral, jist a gathering to celebrate my life, so if my body can be made use of to give someone else a better quality of life or extend their life, I’m all for it!

you?
 
Yes, I am. They're welcome to anything they can use once I'm finished with it.

My late husband was a donor, also. They could not use any of his major organs as he technically died outside the hospital, but they did "harvest" his corneas and other parts, such as his skin (for use as temporary grafts for burn patients), his leg and arm bones and tendons and ligaments for grafting.

When people think of organ donations, they only think about major organs, such as the heart, liver, kidneys and lungs, but there's a lot else that be used.
 
I am not....my reasons are a result of studying the
German Nazi's experiements in this area...also just
do not think we are created to "interchange" our parts...imo
 
As a side-note, couple of my friends have kids who oppose their desire to be organ donors. Apparently they want to give their parents a typical Southern funeral, complete with viewing, and feel that their parents are depriving the kids of an appropriate way to grieve, respect their parent with an appropriate kind of funeral etc.
 
Just wondering, is there an age limit? I once tried to donate blood, and was sadly turned away because I was beyond some arbitrary age limit, which was pretty young as I recall, maybe about 50 or 60. So, wouldn't the same thing apply to organ donation?
 
hawkdon said:
I am not....my reasons are a result of studying the
German Nazi's experiements in this area...also just
do not think we are created to "interchange" our parts...imo
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If one of your children needed a kidney transplant, or a lung, you MIGHT just change your mind. To link modern transplant techniques to Nazi acts 70 years ago is just plain stupid, in my opinion. JimB.
 
Yes, I'm an organ donor. If I have something that can help someone else, then God bless them. I hope it improves their quality of life.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Yeah, I'm an organ donor. To be honest, by the time I'm finished with them I'm not sure how good they'd be.
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Regardless of your age at death, your skin, and bone marrow can be used. So can your corneas, and your liver. A good healthy liver can be transected, and donated to up to four patients who need new liver tissue. Thousands of people who are on the wait list for a organ donation DIE every year, because not enough people are willing to help them live through organ donation after death. If I could do it, I would force Governments to make organ donation a universal fact, that would force those who don't support it....TO actively sign OUT of the program. As it is now, in some States, a family member can overrule the legal wishes of the deceased person, regarding organ donation. That frustrates the hell out of me. JimB.
 
I am not an organ doner. Many years ago, when in the military I was told that I should not donate blood because of what we called jungle rot. This was from being in the Vietnam war. Later it was found to be the effects of the Agent Orange that we were in. I also have low grade prostate cancer from the Agent Orange. So, I don't want to infect other people with letting them have my organs.
 
I can't give blood because of various reasons, exposure to mad cow disease, exposure to TB, too skinny for many years, etc. But I'm still signed up for organ donation. For all I know I have really healthy kidneys or something. I'll let the doctors decide.

As for worrying about someone else walking around with one of my parts -- nope, I don't worry about that anymore than I worry about where my hair goes when I leave the beauty shop.
 
Sunny said:
Just wondering, is there an age limit? I once tried to donate blood, and was sadly turned away because I was beyond some arbitrary age limit, which was pretty young as I recall, maybe about 50 or 60. So, wouldn't the same thing apply to organ donation?
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My first thought was that health of organ in question along with matching blood type is prime factor. So i searched and found this.

https://www.organdonor.gov

Wondering where you are and what organization you were trying to donate. Privately owned plasma collection centers might have more stringent and somewhat arbitrary rules since being for profit might need to worry abot law suits?
 
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Yes.
The reason I'm not legally blind is corneal transplants. I've indicated my wish to have anything that can help another person be recycled since i got my first Drivers License at age 29, receiving a donation that has made such.a significant difference in my quality of life added 'paying it forward' as a motive.

This body is, to me, a useful vehicle for inhabiting this level of reality, once my consciousness is gone take what's useable, cremate the rest. I'm glad my kids agree and won't interfere with my wishes. (If they did i'd be trying find a lawyer that would help me prevent their interference.)
 
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Ronni said:
As a side-note, couple of my friends have kids who oppose their desire to be organ donors. Apparently they want to give their parents a typical Southern funeral, complete with viewing, and feel that their parents are depriving the kids of an appropriate way to grieve, respect their parent with an appropriate kind of funeral etc.
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While i referred to this in my main response, #24. I wanted to add some thoughts.

While for some people veiwing the vacated body is an important step in 'letting go' of the loved one, accepting their death, i don't see how burial could be. Families can have everything from a staid memorial service to an 'Irish Wake' to 'pay respects' and honor the dead without a body or putting it in a coffin and then in the ground.or worse-a mauseleum.

If any of my kids were expressing that i'd ask how the hell can they claim to respect me if they can't allow me to choose what happens to my body after? Sounds to me like those folks are more concerned with making a sympathy garnering show for others than in actually respecting and grieving their parent.
 
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