Are you an organ donor?

If yes, why?

If no, why?

And what organs?

Yes.

I donated my midriff fat to a plastic surgeon.

i ticked yes on my drivers license application, but legally the decision is still up to my next of kin if i am in a PVS or critically injured.

Yes, everything. I'm a lapsed blood donor. Lapsed because I used to give at work, but I changed jobs and new place didn't get visited by the transfusion service. I've given 15pints so far, and should take it up again.

Anyway, organs, I've opted for everything, so that's eyes, all organs, I guess face these days as they can transplant those too now. Why? Why not, I'm not religious, my body is just meat that needs disposing of after I die, and if it's some use to anybody else when I'm dead, that's good news.

I'm donating my penis to Womanity.

I'd give blood, but *never* an organ.

Not dead, because too few are worthy for a second chance at life and I am helping to cull the population as a last contribution to society.

Not alive, because I am healthiest with all organs intact and untampered with.

Yes.
I want to live forever.

No, I don't ride a motorcycle.

[Edit]
Actually this is two fold, Firstly the above statement is in regards to what some Doctors and Nurses refer to Motorcycle riders, since usually when they come off at speed... well theres not much left of them other than organ donoring.

Secondly, I'm a sincere believer in Causality in the sense that an occurance occurs because of the event being depicted historically in the future. To put it blunt, for my organ to end up in someone else could promote their accident in the first place (and my untimely death) and vice versa (I would never accept an organ transplant).

Nope

Organ donor... everything. What the hell am I going to do with it when I am dead?

Strictly no.

What the hell am I going to do with it when I am dead?
Keep it from retards and mongos?

Organ donor... everything. What the hell am I going to do with it when I am dead?

Me too, everything. I figure if it still works, why not?

I figure if it still works, why not?
Yeah why not, you're only spitting in the face of the mighty allah, mocking his plans and arrogantly proclaiming that you have better ideas.
I'm sure that will go down really well on judgement day.
Good for you signing your one way ticket to hell.

Are there any donors here who have given marrow or a kidney?

I've been procrastinating about giving a kidney to a friend. He is subsisting on dialysis due to irrevocable dual kidney failure, that was caused by a water-born disease in India. I experience multiple random daily reminders (this thread is another) but haven't initiated the process yet. With every reminder, I do feel closer to making the arrangements, but I'm also learning what a surprisingly long journey it's been in my head from idea to action.

You'd have to be pretty desperate to want any of my organs.

I'm willing to auction my anus, though. Masterwork of Nature.

(yeah, you guessed right about my liver)

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Yes - everything

Somebody else might as well suffer having this junk inside 'em...
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Keep it from retards and mongos?

You're correct. I should make a strict list of who many get a hold of my organs.

Are there any donors here who have given marrow or a kidney?

I've been procrastinating about giving a kidney to a friend. He is subsisting on dialysis due to irrevocable dual kidney failure, that was caused by a water-born disease in India. I experience multiple random daily reminders (this thread is another) but haven't initiated the process yet. With every reminder, I do feel closer to making the arrangements, but I'm also learning what a surprisingly long journey it's been in my head from idea to action.

It's not easy to give up an organ while you are still alive. Unless its a child, a parent or a spouse/significant other, few people would not hesitate before taking an irrevocable step like that.

Have you spoken to any counselors?

Having only one kidney is a big risk. I wouldn't do it for a friend.

Having only one kidney is a big risk. I wouldn't do it for a friend.

Not even for a candy bar and $5?

Im not going to answer this one seeing as it would be an hackneyed wisecrack bringing the intelligence of you guys down.

Absolutely.. I even arranged and had my next of kin know that even if my organs are found to be diseased or otherwise not usable, that the organ will be donated for medical study. Primarily used to life-saving operations, secondary for research. Made the most sense to me.

nope.

i will need my organs when i am rotting in the ground.

my friend and i are going to have a "bug attraction" contest.

the winner gets a billion dollars.

hell no i ain't no organ donor.
my family can sell them to the highest bidder.

the winner gets a billion dollars.

How much is that in Euros?

One can donate half a kidney now. The kidney, liver, lung, and various other organs are capable of regeneration.

i will become an organ donor in the future but atm im 17

hummm, if I'm correct, a few months ago there was passed a law in Latvia, which makes all persons postmortem organ donors if they explicitly don't declare otherwise.

Having only one kidney is a big risk. I wouldn't do it for a friend.

Would you do it for a Klondike bar?

Would you do it for a Klondike bar?

I'd give my pancreas for a Klondike bar.

Bad idea :p

I'm not. I don't really care about other people and I don't like the idea of my being picked apart and given to some stupid fucks I don't know.

hummm, if I'm correct, a few months ago there was passed a law in Latvia, which makes all persons postmortem organ donors if they explicitly don't declare otherwise.
That's a good idea. I think some states in the US have the same arrangement, at least for corneas.

Anyone watch Nip/Tuck? The kidney donation situation came up. A friend needed a kidney transplant and this guy pretended he wasn't a match until his son decided to donate his kidney. Then he said, don't take my son's kidney, take mine. Anyway, it turned out Rosey O'Donnel was a better match, so he was off the hook.

Sure I am. I donated my brain a month ago. Both my kidneys are going out next week, and my lungs are next.

Having only one kidney is a big risk. I wouldn't do it for a friend.
Would you do it for a fabulous romp with a beautiful babe in a strange and foreign land?
I hear a lot of organ transplants are done that way.

Would you do it for a fabulous romp with a beautiful babe in a strange and foreign land?
I hear a lot of organ transplants are done that way.

No, she can have all the sperm she wants though. buckets...

the dutch are yucky.

We learned to be yucky from the belgians.

yeah, they are lightyears ahead of the dutch...ill give you that one.

im going home.

im hungry.

hummm, if I'm correct, a few months ago there was passed a law in Latvia, which makes all persons postmortem organ donors if they explicitly don't declare otherwise.

they wanted to do that in the netherlands, but the law proposal didn't get through.

If my wife needed a kidney or something like that and I were a match, then of course I'd do it. If it were someone else not quite so close to me, then of course I'd have to think about it. We all draw the line somewhere.

If you're talking about organs I don't need any more, my mother said it very succinctly on a little card she carried in her purse, back in the days when these things were so much simpler:

"Take anything you want."

I'm familiar with the arguments that some people end up with miserable lives after a transplant. But I feel that I should leave that particular risk analysis up to them and their families and their doctors; I'm not going to try to second-guess someone I don't even know, in advance.

In any case, one of the things that is necessary in order to make transplants more successful is more experience with them, and the only way to make that experience possible is to make more organs available.

The arguments to the contrary that have been posted here seem to be veering awfully far into the realm of woo-woo. I'm surprised that this issue evokes such an irrational kind of passion among people who call themselves scientists. I certainly hope that these people are not voters--much less scientists--in my country.

I'm familiar with the arguments that some people end up with miserable lives after a transplant. But I feel that I should leave that particular risk analysis up to them and their families and their doctors; I'm not going to try to second-guess someone I don't even know, in advance.

I'm not. What are you talking about? As an Optometrist, I've dealt with many patients who've had corneal transplants and the only impact it has on their lives is they usually have much better vision.

Heart transplants. Apparently the new heart is only good for about ten years and then they have to go through it all over again. Well duh, so at least they got those ten years. With other organs I've been told that some people have to take anti-rejection medication forever and since the whole point of them is that they suppress the immune system, it can lead to some serious illnesses. Well duh, if we lived in a reasonable country people would always have the choice to change their mind and go with death any time they wanted.

As for corneas, a friend of mine with coke-bottle glasses checked "corneas" on her driver's license. Everyone made fun of her. She said,"Every blind person I've ever met would much rather be nearsighted."

I'm not an organ donor, but have nothing against it. Just haven't checked the box on my license or whatever.

Although, perhaps we should all boycott organ donation and force the bastards to give us our headless clone farms.

New organs for EVERYONE!!!

Heart transplants. Apparently the new heart is only good for about ten years and then they have to go through it all over again. Well duh, so at least they got those ten years. With other organs I've been told that some people have to take anti-rejection medication forever and since the whole point of them is that they suppress the immune system, it can lead to some serious illnesses. Well duh, if we lived in a reasonable country people would always have the choice to change their mind and go with death any time they wanted.

As for corneas, a friend of mine with coke-bottle glasses checked "corneas" on her driver's license. Everyone made fun of her. She said,"Every blind person I've ever met would much rather be nearsighted."
I guess I see your point about organ transplants, but I would have thought that was all obvious. With most transplants, you're just buying time. But what the hell, you've only got so much time anyway. Ten years is a long time.

Regarding your myopic cornea donor, there is only a weak relationship between the shape of the cornea and the degree of myopia. Most myopia is caused by the eye being longer than normal, not the shape of the cornea. So your friend need not worry.

A great thing about corneal transplant is that the cornea is a "priviledged site". Since it is avascular [has no blood vessels], anti-rejection medications are usually not required. If they are, it's usually just eyedrops with basically no systemic side effects.

Most cornea transplant patients take one drop a day indefinately. This treatment is practically useless, but us doctors are always a little afraid to stop the medication and have the patient suddenly reject the cornea. So we usually wait and see if they stop it on their own, then continue without it.

Yes, I understand that corneas are the exception and rejection isn't a big problem. Although I hadn't thought it through and realized that the cornea doesn't carry the donor's vision problems.

We once had a dog with a "liver shunt"--restricted blood flow so new blood vessels were growing around it, bypassing the cleansing. Being more flush at that time we asked the doctor if a transplant was feasible. (This was at the VCA in Westwood CA, one of the nation's premiere veterinary hospitals. We joke that the sign on their front door reads: "Tire Track Removal: $250,000 each.")

He said even he would not do a liver transplant on a dog because, "dogs lie awake nights thinking up creative ways to reject transplanted tissue." Apparently when they do research into transplants and teach it, they start with cats just to see if it's feasible, because it usually works on cats. Then when they get it right and want to investigate every possible problem that might come up, they try it on dogs. If the dog doesn't die within a few days, it will probably be successful on humans.