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Donor consent law is being changed...

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flirtygirl · 16/03/2019 10:39

Aibu to have expected more information before they changes the law, did they do a consultation? I feel miffed that it is now going to be deemed consent and you have to opt out.

But what if the system is down or the opt out which is digital and online, did not get stored properly? What about when you move and change address? Do you have to tell every medical practitioner manually as well?

There is no info it seems on what this will mean. If you have info or any helpful links please let me know, thanks

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teyem · 18/03/2019 17:13

Ridiculous? Have you stopped for a minute to considered the consequence of making a dead body a shell in law that would be required to accommodate the compulsion of all dead as a natural resource. And I'm ridiculous?

pootyisabadcat · 18/03/2019 17:14

@pootyisabadcat I said turn something tragic around A LITTLE. I didn't say it would fix everything and cure grief and the trauma involved. Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ to you. You are unbelievably warped if you think a parent should be forced to hand over their child for organ donation by law. That is so far down the road to Fucked Upness I don't even know where to begin. You said it was turning a negative into a positive and that dead bodies are nothing more than parts. Wow. I'm saddened to be walking around sharing oxygen with people who think like this.

morningstress · 18/03/2019 17:15

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teyem · 18/03/2019 17:15

What the fuck is wrong with you morning?

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pootyisabadcat · 18/03/2019 17:16

If that's how people grieve then that's how they grieve? They can do that AFTER organs have been donated by the way.

Delete away, MN, but you, morning, can go straight to FUCK with your vile attitude. FOADATFOSM.

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pootyisabadcat · 18/03/2019 17:17

You're like fucking Burke and Hare.

morningstress · 18/03/2019 17:17

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N0rdicStar · 18/03/2019 17:17

You don’t know he wouldn’t have felt anything as you haven’t been brain dead and harvested.The whole time in ICU he was brain dead he looked very much alive. He was warm and his face was moving.

Aside from that I didn’t want him alone and stripped of his organs. It was bad enough losing him. I didn’t want parts of him elsewhere and a shell handed back. We lost him which was bad enough and a huge shock, he shouldn’t have been dead in the first place. It was much too soon and felt so undignified. Just wrong.

morningstress · 18/03/2019 17:17

@pootyisabadcat no idea what/who that is.

morningstress · 18/03/2019 17:19

@pootyisabadcat upon research I can assure you I do not go out searching for victims to be murdered and used for dissection.

I'm not quite interested in murder.

teyem · 18/03/2019 17:20

You are doing a degree and you have the critical thinking skills of a toddler. Good luck with that.

morningstress · 18/03/2019 17:20

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morningstress · 18/03/2019 17:20

@teyem Not quite.

N0rdicStar · 18/03/2019 17:21

Morning your posts are just awful. You don’t want to let your relatives go. Holding them is part of letting go and saying goodbye. I can tell you’ve never been through something hideous like this. You have no idea how hideous it is and how you react until you’re there. Joking about it is just wrong.

morningstress · 18/03/2019 17:23

@N0rdicStar funnily enough I've lost 3 grandparents, and a sibling.

pootyisabadcat · 18/03/2019 17:24

Well, being one as erudite as you are, surely you'd have, with a simple Google, also realise that Burke and Hare did not start out as murderers, but grave robbers. After all, those bodies were just shells going to waste! They were medically beneficial. Hey, why not? Why not legalise grave robbing, those selfish gits, burying their loved ones when medical science had need of cadavers?

keyboard spaz attack

O.M.G. Fucking vile disablist language, too.

Why not just go full house on this, morning, you're on quite a roll, here.

Bluestitch · 18/03/2019 17:24

'Hey I'm a really great person, I'm so compassionate and care more about ill people than you! And I'm going to prove it by dehumanising the dead, mocking grieving relatives and using disablist hate speech!'

morningstress · 18/03/2019 17:26

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pootyisabadcat · 18/03/2019 17:26

I can 100% say would receive them eagerly for themselves or family members to save their own lives.

You have zero way of knowing that is an infallible truth and again, opting out or not donating applies to the adult who makes that decision for him or herself, not family members. You decide for yourself, not adult family members.

morningstress · 18/03/2019 17:27

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