Do you carry a Donor Card ?

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Seeing Mears' blood donation thread made me think of this....

Do you carry one about your person so that in the unlikely event of a fatal accident, your organs could be used to save/help as many as people ? I do, as does my DH.

Those of you who don't, what are your reasons ?

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afternoon all, yes both dh and i carry cards on us, and twiglett was right to point out that your NOK knows about it. I also applied to the Anthony Nolan Trust for Bone Marrow Transplants but was rejected as wasn't 8 stone! I am 5'2'' and weigh 7 1/2 - and well proportioned i may add (except now i am 30 weeks pregnant and very ill proportioned)

I doJUst out of curiosity, how would you feel about the issue and your children, heaven forbid you should ever have to be in that position?

I carry one and all my family agreed that if anything happened they'd give consent without even considering it because they know that's what I want. Its not as if any bits are useful to you when you're dead and I've been told that they stitch you up just as carefully as they would a living person after an operation, so its not grossly disfiguring you.

suzy - can't say for certain without being in that situation but although I'd be devastated about losing dd, I think if she was really gone, I'd have no problem with it purely for the thought of saving someone else heartache.

I've always had a problem with the thought of this. It is probably totally irrational but after years of reading books & watching films where people who were thought to be dead "recovered" there is always that thought that says what if you weren't. I know they have more tests now, but I can't seem to get past this block. It's totally hypocritical I realise, that I'd have no qualms about accepting organs for myself, DH or the children, but it's just the fear of donating... (Then again I also have a problem with the idea of cremation, so it's obviously a psychological thing).

Taluluah - that is why I want to be cremated - to be sure