Opt out of organ donation

@Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel

Who cares? You'll be dead.

Would you be happy with a pedophile/murderer/rapist having bits of your body?

No? Well other people have standards of who they'd like their bits going to and who not.

I care. I’m all for organ donation in theory but I’m absolutely NOT for donating my reproductive organs and allowing this emperor’s new clothes charade to go even further than it already has. No fucking way

This is how I feel.

Full disclosure though, during our IVF treatment we'd opted to have any 'left over' embryos donated to science. I was happy to donate them to an infertile couple but husband wasn't as keen on that option

I did select some, and reproductive organs aren’t on there at all

Sorry that should be ‘all’ or ‘some’ option. My phone autocorrected to something.

If you opt in you can choose to donate certain organs only. There is an ‘all’ or something option on the link I posted. You basically tick the ones you want to donate. Make sure your family are aware of your wishes. Hopefully this sci-fi nightmare won’t be realised in our lifetime but if it is, tell your loved ones so that they know you do not want your reproductive organs donated. Make sure they know.

I don’t want to opt out completely...I feel like that isn’t fair to people who genuinely need a transplant and not one for a fetish.

But how can I stay opt in without donating things I really don’t want donating.

However, it does say they will need permission from next of kin so surely, that should provide me with some protection?

Thanks for the link @JonHammIsMyJamm

I've opted out.

Jesus.... I would not want my foetus or embryo donated. I would want them buried with me

brain
spinal cord
face
nose
mouth
trachea (windpipe)
arm
upper arm
forearm
hand
finger
leg
thigh
lower leg
foot
toe
ovary
uterus
penis
testicle
foetus
placenta
umbilical cord
embryo (inside the body)
limbal stem cells (eye cells that allow the cornea to regenerate) – if they are used for an ATMP
liver cells – if they are used for an ATMP
pancreatic cells – if they are used for an ATMP

Ah. Thank you.

That’s awful that the nhs link doesn’t include the reproductive tissues as something to opt out of

I guess I will just have to make sure my next of kin is fully aware of what they can and can’t donate

Who cares? You'll be dead.

Would you be happy with a pedophile/murderer/rapist having bits of your body?

No? Well other people have standards of who they'd like their bits going to and who not.

I care. I’m all for organ donation in theory but I’m absolutely NOT for donating my reproductive organs and allowing this emperor’s new clothes charade to go even further than it already has. No fucking way

This is how I feel.

Have you got a specific link? I’ll donate anything but my eggs and womb.

Do you want to donate all your organs and tissue? *
All
Some
Heart
Lungs
Kidneys
Liver
Corneas
Pancreas
Tissue
Small bowel

See, I’ve gone on that nhs link, and I’ve clicked donating some, but womb doesn’t come on there to select or not.

Does that mean it isn’t included in organ donation?

Well it's about sex and position in hierarchy and also for women whether single or not.

Why do we need to know this about (usually) strangers. People you meet irl it's first name in my life.

Interesting that the options for women in titles grow and grow while men are still just Mr.

Having a single title for women was a feminist aim but yet again we're going in the other direction while for chaps it stays unchanged and uncomplicated.

I'd get rid of titles altogether what even is the point of them.

Womb transplants for males are in the realm of science fiction at this stage. Some biological women have had womb transplants but their chances of a successful pregnancy are still slim despite having all the other "plumbing" and the right hormones.

I've completed the register by opting to donate some specific organs, not all. I've excluded tissue. Plus I've made sure that my next of kin know that any to do with my reproductive system is off limits for donation.

Next of kin make ALL the decisions. It is completely irrelevant opting in or out, you are at the mercy of your next of kin.

Or non binary or whatever the fuck

Isn’t ‘Mx’ for the gender-neutrals?

Stop sticking Xs on the ends of words, TRAs. It looks silly and nobody knows how to pronounce it.