Any organ-donor boardsies?

GerryRyan

Morbid thought rly, but out of curiosity - who here has an organ-donor card or arrangements made to give up a kidney/heart etc upon death?

I have an IKA card and don't feel weird about it - what use is a kidney once I pass (whatever the scenario)?
I've never been in a position where I needed to receive blood (thank god) - but have given it twice in the hope it'll help someone in need. Just my nature.

But then there's some who see it as un-natural or have a problem witht the ethics of it ...

So what's everyones position/opinion on it?

Jackz

I dontated an organ to someone last night for a while!

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YORE MA ! ! !

Karoma

Riiiiight. First, I reply here. Next, I wake up in a bath of ice with a nice scar... Atari Jaguar.

GerryRyan

Jackz wrote: »

I dontated an organ to someone last night for a while!

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YORE MA ! ! !

2 posts in - a new record? :rolleyes:

Archeron

I carry an organ donor card. My lungs, kidneys, liver (ha!) are there for the plucking, but my eyeballs are mine for the ever lastly choosing!

humanji

There's an option missing from the poll: those who haven't got a card but want one. I'll get around to it one of these days (but most likely die before I get to).

GerryRyan

humanji wrote: »

There's an option missing from the poll: those who haven't got a card but want one. I'll get around to it one of these days (but most likely die before I get to).

http://www.ika.ie/index.php?option=com_facileforms&Itemid=50

30 seconds work tbh

Jackz

I get a warning it was in context, if ever a thread required a YORE MA it was this one!

People around here taking things a little too seriously.

Calibos

Don't have a card but have the organ donor bits at the back of my driving licence filled out and signed.

Just because my brain pops its clogs prematurely doen't mean my, kidneys, liver, lungs, heart, valves, skin, cornea's have to. Hey, my face and hands might even make it onto someone else these days!. The more of me that survives inside someone else the better is what I say!!

Ruu_Old

I think all my organs are up for grabs. *posts on adverts*

Krieg

Im a walking medical disaster
I have no prob donating my organs, but I dont think they would help anyone

Archeron

Jackz wrote: »

I get a warning it was in context, if ever a thread required a YORE MA it was this one!

People around here taking things a little too seriously.

You're probably right, my ma, despite everything else actually has great eyeballs.

Jackz

Archeron wrote: »

You're probably right, my ma, despite everything else actually has great eyeballs.

Say what?

themadchef

I hope mine are all too old and well past theirs sell by dates when it comes to it, but yes a carry the card. when im past saving i'd like to think if there's any organ of any use to someone else let them have it, what good is it to me anyway, im dead?

Creature

I've got one. Only because I hope that when my organs are transplanted into someone else it ends up being one of those scenarios where my spirit inhabits said organs and I can go on a killing spree using their body.

Archeron

I hereby certify that I, Archeron Be Wonderful am withholding from the world activity that may be construed as......

Pj!

Text 'Donor' to 50050 for a donor card. Everyone should have one. Is it Finland or somewhere that you have to get a card not to be a donor. Otherwise, everyone is. Proper order.

Now text that number!

GhostInTheRuins

I've been meaning to get one for a while now, not if any of my parts are worth salvageing though

Actually I was thinking about this the other day, Why do we even need to have donor cards? If someone dies in an accident and has good lungs etc they should be taken to help people whether you have a card or not. When I rule this country I'll make it law.

Edit: Damn, maybe I should rule Finland then.

m83

Just got my card today, pillage away folks

csm

does organ donation work the same as blood donation? ie does it have the same restrictions?

KdjaCL

everything i have is up for donation not like i gonna need it.


kdjac

Karoma

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

Actually I was thinking about this the other day, Why do we even need to have donor cards? If someone dies in an accident and has good lungs etc they should be taken to help people whether you have a card or not. When I rule this country I'll make it law.

There was a news article recently that said Scotland were thinking of doing this - i.e. You opt-out as opposed to carrying a card and opting in (Which can be overruled by your next of kin, IIRC.)
I'd approve of an opt-out scheme, but one that respects the rights and wishes of your next-of-kin.

Nobody here is donating a brain right..?

GhostInTheRuins

Forky wrote: »

Text 'Donor' to 50050 for a donor card.

Now text that number!

Done

CathyMoran

I can't donate for medical reasons (cancer and diabetes to name 2). I do think that it is a good idea though. I would not donate my body to medical research though as I want to be buried properly.

Bottle_of_Smoke

I reckon we should register online to donate our organs. We're then sent a card.

Then if I happen to need an organ at some stage I'd be placed higher up on the queue because I was willing to donate myself.

I do normally carry a card but I've lost my damn wallet.

At the very least we should have an opt-out scheme.

watna

I have a card and people can take what they want, if anything happens to me I'm not going to need them. The wormies will just get more food if they're left in! I hope though that I'll be old when I die and they'll be useless. I also don't want to donate my eyes, windows to the soul and all that. I'mn speficially told my parents and bf that.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I'm a firm believer in organ donation.

My uncle passed away on Tuesday evening, he was a multi-organ donor.

My sis-in-law passed away a few year's back at only 37yrs old. Her family wouldn't donate, what a fvcking waste.

arybvtcw0eolkf

watna wrote: »

I also don't want to donate my eyes, windows to the soul and all that. I'mn speficially told my parents and bf that.

Alot of people feel like that about the eye's.

I think they can only use parts of the eye and not transplant the whole eye. I could of course be very wrong.

Either way if donating my eye's upon my death brings site to someone else than I'm all for it.

I wouldn't donate my body to medical science.

Dave!

Mairt wrote: »

I wouldn't donate my body to medical science.

Why not Mairt?

I'm an organ donor, everyone should be really... It's one thing not donating bloody regularly, you have to have free time, if you get a tattoo you have to wait months, some people are afraid of needles, etc. -- but when you're dead, you don't feel a thing, so assuming you're not riddled with AIDS, there is no reason to hang onto those organs.

I've also donated blood twice, and hoping to make that a life-long thing... Your body regenerates blood in a short amount of time. Not donating is like having a freshwater spring on your land and not giving a thirsty person a drink.

BTW you can apply for an organ donor card by text... follow the link in my sig. It's easy!

Terry

My kidneys and Liver are most likely ****ed from alcohol and my lungs and heart are also ****ed from smoking.
They can take the other organs though. I've perfect eyesight.

As for medical research, I'm all for it.
If some med student wants to dissect the body of an obese alcoholic smoker, who also is slightly insane, then they are welcome to do so.


EDit: I got my donor card after seeing the link in Dave McG's sig.

Also, I cannot donate blood due to the amount of medication I'm on.
Unless they want the recipient to be wasted for a while.

arybvtcw0eolkf

DaveMcG wrote: »

Why not Mairt?

Only reason I won't donate my body to science is simply its too hard on my family.

I've a friend whose dad donated to science and the family didn't get the body back for 18 months (for burial). His family weren't prepared for the whole thing and found it very traumatic.

Otherwise donating my body for science would be a good idea since I don't smoke, only drink in moderation. I train regularly and keep myself very fit. Thats all provided of course that I died young.

Hagar

Text the word "Doner" to "50050" followed by the word "Abrakababra".
Free chips to the first 100 texters.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Hagar wrote: »

Text the word "Doner" to "50050" followed by the word "Abrakababra".
Free chips to the first 100 texters.

Like the sick joke...

Q; What do you call a baby with one kidney?..

A; A Donor-kebaby

robinph

Mairt wrote: »

I wouldn't donate my body to medical science.

The only use my body would be after I've finished with it would be for med students to chop up so they are welcome to it.

Terry

Mairt, i see your point about the waiting time on burial, but I just feel they could still mourn in their own way.

I wanted to donate my father's body to medical research, but his brothers were completely against it.

At the end of the day, it was my decision, but I just didn't want to rock the boat.

They were also against the organ donation, but I told them to STFU about that one.

Keith186

Yeh,people don't be scabby and give up your organs for others.

The law should make everyone an organ donor uless they opt out, if health minister done a good job this should be part of it to protect the health of the state. Ah well no chance of that hapening!

Terry

She's probably just eat them.

Dancor

I carry a card and donate blood, I like to think they would go to a person that needs them, my biggest fear is that it goes to a scumbag or rapist, etc.
I know I will be dead but just the thought of it.

Blanchguy

My father received a donated liver in 1995. He lived for 5 more happy and active years because of it. So thanks to anyone who carries a donor card. Even if you have a card the hospital needs to ask your next of kin's permission - so make sure they know how you feel.

Hagar

Unfortunately the Mad Cow disease outbreaks have made us the lepers of Europe.
I gave blood regularly in Ireland but they won't touch me here in France because I lived in Ireland during the outbreak years. I'm sure they won't take my organs either.

Alun

Blanchguy wrote: »

Even if you have a card the hospital needs to ask your next of kin's permission - so make sure they know how you feel.

... which to my mind is totally ridiculous. If I've gone to the trouble of getting a donor card, then they should respect my wishes. My next-of-kin have got no say in the matter, and if by any chance they did interfere, I'd come back to haunt them

Wertz

Carried one since I was about 7 after picking it up in a dentists office and asking what it was for...everything except lungs, I couldn't possibly expect someone to try and use my lungs after all the abuse I've given them.

I am of the (highly controversial) opinion that organ donation should be something you need to opt out of rather than opt in to...I know there are morals and ethical questions and the rights of remainlng relatives to take into consideration but the amount of lives lost when they could be saved by what we currently "throw away" (read bury/cremate) is a shame.
If nothing else we really need to highlight organ donation and try and get it into kid's heads as being the sensible choice...

Interestingly enough, I've never given blood (although I've been meaning to)...that is probably jsust amore important than organ donation at death, since it's somehting you can do more than once and it saves probably more lives...

Capt'n Midnight

We must adopt a system like France. Everyone then becomes a donor unless they register to opt-out. Simple to do via your PPS number which is on your European Health Insurance Card. Too many people suffering and dying needlessly as there aren't enough donors.

Feck it you'll be dead anyway.

Aisling(",)

Im an organ donor dont see the problem with it and i have been since im 9 but a friend of mine would do it but she dosent want to give away her heart unless she needs it in heaven r whatever!

Thirdfox

Hagar wrote: »

Unfortunately the Mad Cow disease outbreaks have made us the lepers of Europe.
I gave blood regularly in Ireland but they won't touch me here in France because I lived in Ireland during the outbreak years. I'm sure they won't take my organs either.

Lol that's hilarious - I can't donate blood in Ireland because I've lived in England for a while... so that makes me a super-leper then

RoyalMarine

i was born in england during a certain time of something and im not allowed donate blood in the uk.
but i still carry my card for the last few years.

heck, if i die, and someone else can live then so be it. just as long as whats left over gets cremated and not buried.

dceire

I've a donor card but havent really declared to anyone what organs i want to donate! Is there anything you have to do other than get the card or is just telling family that they can have anything they want when I'm gone!

Better someone gets them than just letting them rot in the ground, such a bluddy waste, remember Reduce, Reuse, Recycle