I’ve withdrawn from organ donation register

[Purpledogcollar]

I give blood and have always been very pro organ donation.

Sadly I have just withdrawn as protest against reproductive organ donation. I can’t support it and am very conflicted as would like to donate other organs.

What are your views and is it a hasty decision (although not sure I would change my mind).

You will be very much dead before any of your organs get assigned. So no, you will never be able to "vet" who you donate to. Nor should you be able to.

Just list the bits you're happy to donate why should people die as part of your protest should the worse happen?

Thanks for this thread OP, I have just registered to be on the list, honestly can't remember if I was on it or not....
I really cannot understand why you would be so quick to deregister over something that is not even close to being an option yet???
You would rather deny a person a life that you could potentially save??? 🤯

I've never looked into this but if this is true then I hope the OP feels ridiculous and signs back up asap.

In a nutshell, @Purpledogcollar , your reproductive organs cannot be used under the present organ donation register. So you've withdrawn for no logical reason.

Several people have linked to the site where it's made very clear that an entirely different protocol had to be followed which requires a discrete permission protocol, but here it is again.

Non-routine transplants
The current system for organ donation in England does not cover rare or novel transplants such as limb, face or uterus donation. This kind of transplant is not routine and would require specific agreement from your family."

So please re-register and let your family know your wishes.

Given that only one uterus transplant has been carried out so far, and as a live transplant from a relative, I think you're worrying about nothing. I suspect that the very few such transplants in the future (the present estimate is that there might be 20 a year in the UK) are also likely to be live donations.

Some people might not want their uterus to be used full stop. Not just because of the giving it to men thing

My late wife was a donor.

I'm proud that she decided to help others with her body.

It helped with my grief, and when they are old enough I'll be telling our children about how she saved lives

Please seriously consider how many people are on the waiting lists, and how many lives you can help.

Wow I actually can't believe someone would do this.

My cousin had a multiple organ transplant a few months ago. It had to be from a child's body. Thank goodness for those fabulous parents/carers who allowed their child's organs to go to a 45 year old woman to save her life.

What you have done is pathetic.

Personally I don’t care as I’ll be dead so what do I need them for… however it does creep me out that someone might get my eyes…

I’m a transplant recipient who is tempted to do the same. But then again I also disagree strongly with “opt out” so there’s that issue too. Presumed consent is not consent.

'I used to be an organ donor, but then I read more into how it works and I changed my mind. Until I can have more say over what organs are used and for what purpose and for who, I don't feel like I'm able to fully consent.'

What was it you read that bothered you so much?

"Unless you think that women's feelings on the subject shouldn't matter too much?"

Oh, I dunno, I'm a woman on the list who needs an organ they don't have enough of, did you not mean women like me?

OP and other PP and their equally idiotic friends have just put other women's lives on the line. Never mind, glad none of them will accept a kidney when they or their children might need one. Or maybe they'll be desperate and there won't be enough to go around - but tough shite, their feelings on the subject won't matter too much.

What's so difficult about allowing us to consent how our organs are used?

This.

Can I leave mine specifically for medical research and “Frankenstein medicine” because that sounds pretty cool.

tbh just make sure I’m definitely dead before you go for it.

It’s such an experimental procedure at this stage and no where near being part of the transplant list anytime soon. There’s been one or two successful transplants and you’re rushing to remove your name from the whole register? Utter madness!

I’ve never understood the logic in refusing to be on the list anyway, what are you planning on doing with your kidneys/heart/liver when you’re dead? I am on the list and I’ve told my husband, because he gets final say even if I’m NOT on the list, that if he refuses consent I’ll come back and haunt him.

This

I am still opted in and carried an organ donor card for years before too, but people can opt in or out for whatever reason they choose, or for no reason

Same here

Does the age of the reproductive organs make a difference? Genuine question.

I opted in many years ago knowing that I had no say over where my organs would go. For all I know in ten years time the only thing between Matt Hancock and the Grim Reaper will be one of my kidneys. Do I like the idea of that? Not at all, and it's considerably more likely than my womb being transplanted into a bloke. And yet somehow I live with it, because once I die my body will be a collection of spare parts and I'd like the NHS to be able to use it if it's useful.

The point went right over your head didn't it.

You have to give express, explicit permission for them to take your uterus, so you don't NEED to opt out of organ donation to stop them from taking it.

This is me too.

Yes, and presumably there will be a lot of unsuccessful attempts before the successful ones are figured out. I don't want to be used in furthering this frankenscience even if it isn't successful.

You have to give express, explicit permission for them to take your uterus, so you don't NEED to opt out of organ donation to stop them from taking it.

And when that changes, will we all be asked to give consent or will the change happen automatically?

Its a wholly personal decision. Our bodies are the only thing we'll ever truly own, thus its our business alone what happens to it in both life and death.