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?

A good friend of mine died suddenly at the beginning of the year. It was a comfort to learn that she saved the lives of four people by donating her organs. I know she would have loved that fact too.

What are the mixed feelings? You're body will just decompose when you're dead anyway, taking with it organs that some poor bugger needs. I'm not overly religious but even if I accepted the notion we have a 'soul' - the soul will have left the body at this point. X

They can take anything they can use. I donate blood and have looked into the possibility of donating my body to science when I die.

I’m down as a donor but I don’t want to donate my eyes.

I absolutely want my organs donated. That way I know I’m definitely dead and won’t be waking up in a box inside flames / buried.

That and I’d be delighted that someone else had a chance at life after my passing.

Definitely donate, take whatever is needed/ can be used. I know a few people who have had a transplant including a close relative.

I prefer the idea of helping someone live their life if i cant, than organs going to waste.

If anything happened my dc, i would also donate theirs.

I know one of the people featured in the programme. I admit I hadn't got round to signing the register before they were poorly but I've since put this right. They can take every bit of me away and I firmly support an opt out system. I'll be saving or changing lives of people as my legacy - how cool is that.

Absolutely. Seeing the man on that programme who could have saved 8 lives had his relatives given permission made me feel quite cross.

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Please do your research before signing up. No anaesthetic when they cut you up.

I'm totally happy with it. Not saying I want to think about it too much but in all honesty I think that people who refuse, should be barred from ever receiving an organ transplant.

There's nothing of a person in a dead body. They can have every bit of me

I'd happily give my organs as long as I'm dead:) Doubt I'll have anything left worth taking, but you never know.

I believe if you are willing to accept an organ you should be willing to donate.

My kids have told me they carry a donor card so I know their wishes.

Take it all. I don't need it.

But I haven't always thought like that. When I was younger I hated the thought of not being "whole". I'm not sure when I changed my mind.

@Queenoftheblitz you're dead, there's no need for anaesthesia

Largely yes - do you get to choose which organs you do and don’t want to donate, does anyone know?

Wouldn’t donate to science, due to the fear of my brain being studied in some attempt to find a “cure” for autism, something I find disturbing. Maybe a very odd concern but meh.

Queen donor organs are taken from brain dead people. You can't feel pain if you're brain dead, therefore no need for pain relief I haven't read the link

For many years I carried a donor card I believed it was the right thing to do. Then my mum died very suddenly in her early 50's before turning the life support off they asked about organ donation inside I was screaming no, dad and my sister said yes. I said I wasn't happy but reluctantly gave permission but refused mums eyes. We're told later about all the people she helped, this didn't and still doesn't make me feel any better.
Prior to this happening I too would have been saying take anything we don't need them.

@Queenoftheblitz that is scaremongering, misinformed trash.

But yeah things like heart, lungs, liver, corneas they can have

That site you linked to is horrendously written and formatted. Reminds me of anti vax sites and their clear scientific arguments.....

Queen - don't be ridiculous

Whatever they want, they can take it all. My DH is the same. I’ve registered both of my DDs as donors within a week they were born. Which sounds odd if you think about it, but that’s how passionately I feel about the matter.
I just wish i could stipulate not to have my organs given to a person who isn’t an organ donor themself (through choice and not because they have a health condition or something of course).

If you would accept organs for you or your loved ones you should be on the register.

Queenoftheblitz what the everloving fuck is that link?

If doctors cared so little whether people live or die, why would they bother going to those extremes to harvest their organs?

I have a donor card and have signed up online and my family all know that I wish to donate all my organs if they are useable.

I also donate blood as regularly as I can.

This has always been my position.

Also, I now have a DD who has lost organs (her intestine) & the long term treatment will damage her liver over time. I know she will likely need a donor liver & possibly other organs in the future. Small intestine transplant is possible, but difficult and doesn't have great outcomes, so my DD is not on the transplant list at present. Instead, she is fed intravenously and has been for nearly 10 years! However, like I say, intravenous feeds lead to liver damage and so she may well require a transplant in the future.

She also needed blood transfusions when she was in picu.

I am buoyed up by all the people on this thread who support donation. It really is a gift of life. Thank you on behalf of our family who know we will likely be the ones waiting one day.