If your dad didnt bother with you, then showed up 20 years later asking for a kidney for his child - would you say yes?

[hotmumshit]

Not a real scenario, watching eastenders, and have thought about being asked to donate something to an unknown sibling

I dunno, I dont know if I would 🤔

Nope, any more than I would find my kidney to a stranger.

Nope, I'm not a source of spare parts for anyone.

I have a friend who made a retirement gift of a kidney anonymously. He has no idea who it went to. An extraordinary thing to do.

No. I have three kids who might need one someday.

Fuck no!

No.
i have tested for a family member this year but the difference the love i have for this person and that person love for my family.

in that scenario not a chance.

I’d laugh him out the door and then continue laughing.

Nope. I have an organ donor card - absolutely happy for anyone to have what's left when I'm gone - but I wouldn't be donating to a sibling I had never known from a dead beat dad whilst alive.

No. Defineately not.

Your question should be would you give a stranger a kidney as that is the scenario you describe.

A kidney is different to stem cells though if you're going on EastEnders.

I like this response.

Estranged from my mum and step dad. Dont know my real dad. But I was sat thinking about what i'd say when I say NOOO to such a request

I think youd face quite the public backlash

😄 thank you, i dont feel so bad for thinking id do the same thing!

The cheek of it all as well!

If the dad isn’t a match, the odds of a paternal half sibling being a match is very low.

Nope. If I'm a match then in all probability my dad would be a match as well.

No way!

Nope. My kids are the only ones who’ll get my organs if needed

Very true - in my nighttime imagination scenario its a kidney

I'll quickly google the process of harvesting stem cells

Even then, I wouldnt be keen, if it were my situstion though

This, what a dead beat parent that would be, “didn’t care enough to parent you, here give me an organ for the kid I actually care about”…

Thats not what has been asked on Eastenders though is it

Firstly - Denise didnt know she had a brother.

Secondly - its not Denises father that has asked for help - its Denise, (or Jack) who did not "abandon" whatever brothers name is

Thirdly - she doesnt need a kidney, she needs a stem cell donation

But apart from that.....
If my father came and asked for a kidney for anyone - NO!

Exactly.

No it isnt! Their situation is very different but prompted my oversharing my secret nighttime imaginary scenarios 😩😩😩

No way. Me and my two lovely functioning kidneys would simply wait and tap dance on his grave

Eastenders is not portraying stem cell transplants very honestly or sympathetically.
Not only is it very, very different from donating a kidney, the process (testing of both potential donors and recipient) has not been shown at all well.
And no mention of Anthony Nolan.

A huge missed opportunity, in my opinion.

No, absolutely not. I'm an organ donor, but while alive there are three people I would donate to. None of them are strangers.