to ask your thoughts on organ denation

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I have been thinking alot recently about organ donation after watching a programme about it.

I have really mixed feelings about it,

Whats your views on donating your own or your DC organs after death?

Going back a bit here, but @Gudgyx - I'm worried that your written instructions may actually cause confusion/ a dilemma to medical professionals unless they are reworded slightly.

You ask them to donate anything they can use, but also instruct them not to hook you up to any machines to keep you alive. In order to perform lots of types of donation, they would have to hook you up to machines to keep your heart beating and your lungs breathing (artificially of course as you'd be brain dead). Hopefully they would understand your intentions, but just concerned they may follow your instructions exactly and therefore seriously reduce the amount of help you could give others. There may be a slightly better way of wording it? I don't know, it's entirely up to you and feel free to ignore me if I'm just rambling

Roomba, I didn’t write it. It’s a poem of sorts I stumbled across online somewhere years ago, I just really love it. My family all know my wishes, I imagine by the time someone goes through my purse I would already be dead anyway so it wouldn’t make much difference having it.

They can take anything they like except my brain. Due to consciousness being quite ambiguous I'd rather not find a semblance of myself in another's body.

I know we are years from that technology but just as a hypothetical.

Otherwise take my heart, lungs, kidneys, skin for graphing, hair to make a wig whatever is needed - I will no longer need it.

Does anyone know if there is a way of checking if you’re on the organ donor list? I am pretty sure I signed up a while ago but would like to check for sure.

Also, is it still useful to carry a card or is this superfluous now?

I don't need my organs when I am dead so I will donate everything that is viable so others can live and see.

I can't donate blood as I had a transfusion after an emergency caesarean in 1995 but as I live in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I am assumed to be a donor and have told my family that I want to be a donor.
Don't think twice, tell your loved ones you want to.

@Laurel543 if you call the organ donor line on 0300 123 23 23 they should be able to tell you. It's not strictly necessary to carry an organ donor card, the most important thing is making sure you're family know your wishes. You can print out another though online if you want to. Google organ donor card.

Thanks reallybadidea
However, I now realise I committed the MN sin of asking a very easily google-able question