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View Poll Results: Will you donate your organs when you die? | |||
Yes | 25 | 73.53% | |
No | 9 | 26.47% | |
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10-30-2003, 10:01 PM | #11 |
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Hmm, It would not allow me to answer number 2. None of the listed pertains to me and there is not an option to reflect that.
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10-31-2003, 03:32 AM | #12 |
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I didn't vote on the poll, but I just wanted to make this comment, and I'd like to hear anyone's opinions on it. Someone once told me that organ donors are much less likely to put effort into reviving you/operating on you if you're unwell, simply so they have more organs. Does anyone have any comments on this? I very much doubt the validity of it, but who knows?
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10-31-2003, 08:07 AM | #13 | |
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10-31-2003, 08:24 AM | #14 |
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I carry a donor card at all times.
As for live donation I have explained to Lanesra that he will be allowed 1 kidney and some bone marrow!
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10-31-2003, 08:34 AM | #15 |
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I would like to be a donor, but I'm too young(I'm 17). There is a blood donor action in my school every six months or so, and once I reach the age of consent, I'll join in. Free meals, remember?
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10-31-2003, 09:10 AM | #16 |
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Years back when; I put myself on the bone marrow donor’s list as well as giving blood at least 4 times a year. But about 4 years ago right in the height of the mad cow diseases the red cross who organize the donations in Australia banned all ex pommys (British) and people who had visited there from donating blood. To say I was outraged is an understatement. They are so scared of people with possible "mad cow" infection that they have stopped about 20% of this nation giving blood, a stupid idea.
I always looked upon it as a duty to give blood
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10-31-2003, 09:57 AM | #17 |
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Im too young for it but ill give organs when i die besides i dont need em then.
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10-31-2003, 10:50 AM | #18 |
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I don't give blood because I'm afraid of needles. If a nurse wants to take blood from me I always warn her to get help. Weird fear, but at least I've only one big one.
As for my parts when I'm dead, please burn me. No, don't take anything. It's not that I don't feel sorry for those who need them -- nor will I have any use for them. However, medicine's simply gotten too good, and we still reproduce like bunnies, so I shall harden my heart against individual beneficiaries so that I can avoid contributing to the larger problem of overpopulation. Believe me, I'd rather be an organ donor, but there are simply too many of us, and I can't justify it to myself. |
10-31-2003, 11:40 AM | #19 | |
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Now, if you are a poor citizen in a poor country this probably could happen. But the organs wouldn't go to a transplant, instead they would be sold on the black market. But those cases are rare and a lot of resources are used to track down every organ smuggler! Timber, that's a rather dubious reason not to donate. [img]tongue.gif[/img] I would have respected a simple no more than that. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Aelia, I don't support Spain's opt-out system, Why? Because there are many religious or other personal beliefs that contradicts organ donation. And many people don't know that you need to "unsubscribe" for such a list. But I agree that more information is necessary although I wouldn't like the government provide it. Words like "police state", "intrusion of privacy" and other silly things usually is heard in such cases. Better the governments tell the medical foundations to get out of their comfy chairs and earn their salaries.
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10-31-2003, 11:50 AM | #20 |
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Ah, but Willow, a "no" would make it seem like I am uncaring and callous and don't want to donate organs. I do. Philosophical reasons keep me from doing so.
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