I’ve withdrawn from organ donation register

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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Sadly I have just withdrawn as protest against reproductive organ donation.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).

Ridiculous.

So someone who desperately needs a heart or liver or lungs, is going to die because you've made your "stance" against this one thing ?Even though you do have a choice ? Well what a champ you are.

In the case of needing a uterus transplant, you would not die.

i believe you can choose which organs you do / don’t want to donate so hopefully people won’t opt out entirely.

This is idiotic. You’ve de registered because of something that won’t actually happen.

Here’s the worlds slowest hand clap 👏🏻

So to all those who are now opting out, would you refuse to accept a donated organ if you needed one? If not, how do you justify not being willing to donate your own?

I'm a transplant recipient. It has allowed my kids to have a healthy mother. I have numerous friends that I've met along my journey who are still on the waiting list after several years living half lives in limbo.

The misconceptions on this thread are heartbreaking.
There is no deceased donor uterus donation programme in the UK atm. This is why there is no uterus opt out option. For the same reason there is no brain opt out.

This. Idiocy at its finest. Giving feminism a bad name.

I registered recently for the same reason that I wanted to opt out of my reproductive organs, but it wasn't an option. I have told my dh though that I wouldn't want this and will tell my dc when they're older.

@Saschka surely though if someone is in a coma/ or about to die they're a live recipient so reproductive organs could be harvested?

https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/register-your-decision/donate/

IMHO I'll be dead, i don't give a fuck what they do with my fleshy bits, or who they give them to.

If someone else can make use of any of it once my chronic illnesses have killed me off, have at it.

no It didn’t go right over my head - try reading instead of being condescending

I agree, we have met before under a different thread. In fact I'm going to go back to that one now...

As someone who received a kidney transplant that saved me from hooking up to a machine every night to keep me alive before an absolute hero donated their organs, this thread makes me so sad

I have two gorgeous children and have known motherhood due to the actions of some kind soul I will never be able to express my thanks too.

In this instance, this feels like a political stance that could literally cost lives...and an unnecessary one as uterus transplants aren't done and covered by 'non routine transplants' which expressly says they will not be used.

I absolutely believe everyone has a choice but starting a thread announcing your decision with potential misinformation is upsetting

I really honestly don’t care what happens to my bits and pieces once I no longer need them. If I can give one person hope, in whatever form, once I’m gone, that’s a win in my book.

Given all the discussion above ^^, it would probably help if there were some clarification now in the UK from the responsible bodies around 'tissue' donations, specifically tissue that may be used for research purposes rather than necessarily for direct donation.

After a cancer diagnosis would anyone want your organs?

Absolutely. Hope life is good - from another recipient

I can read thanks.
I just think the rampant ignorance and stupidity on this thread deserves condescension.

IF you opt out of donation because you think some weird science is going to steal your womb from your dead body, you don't deserve to be the recipient of someone elses organs if ever you need one.

If it helps at all I have just signed up and it does ask if you want to donate all your organs or some of which you then choose. Reproductive organs wasn't on the list of choices.

Thanks for letting us know.
I hope you never have the need for an organ yourself.
Personally, I'll be dead, they can take what they like.

I am a tissue donation recipient, not an organ recipient, in other words, I have tissue from someone else harvested after death in my body to help it work better. I wouldn't have died without it, but it has increased my quality of life greatly.

I've decided that I also will be happy to be a tissue donor. I don't want to be an organ donor, for emotionally driven irrational reasons concerning brain death, that I don't want to spend time worrying about in this lifetime. If one of my children needs a kidney, they can have one.

I would not have an organ transplant now, I'm late middle-aged and it would be hypocritical to take one if you aren't prepared to give one, which I am not. I hope I'm not tested on this one.

Reproductive organs wasn't on the list of choices.

Because it’s not possible yet, there have been one or two trials. It’s like opting out of living on Venus, totally fucking pointless.

Those who opt out, would you receive an organ?

Absolutely your body your choice but why be happy to receive one to save your life but not willing to give one when dead and have no use?

I’ve worked with many that have had life saving transplants. it’s amazing to get that opportunity of a longer life. I’m

Also transplanted reproductive organs as a standard surgery is not even in the near future.

Those who opt out, would you receive an organ?

No

Do you know how many people die on the transplant list? But as long as you have your principles, you need an empathy transplant