Are you an organ donor?

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I'm wondering how many CAGs here are organ donors and how many aren't. When I first got m license at 17, I said "no" to the organ donor question so currently I am not an organ donor. The reason I said no was because I didn't know how my parents would react to that.

But that's kind of besides the point. If you've seen the movie Seven Pounds, then you probably know why I'm asking this question. If you haven't seen the movie, I suggest you do go see it. It was truly a great movie and it actually had me crying at the end. I had already planned to become an organ donor next time I renew my driver's license (in two years), but this movie just makes me want to become an organ donor that much more.

Anyway, on to the poll!
 
I'm not taking the chance that they won't do absolutely everything within their power to save my life before deciding its time to take the organs.

Plus, whats in it for me? Nothing but risk as far as I'm concerned and no reward.
 
Sure. If my brain is hopelessly damaged (as opposed to wonderfully damaged, as it is now) I have no use for the mound of flesh left behind. Install the organs in those that can use them. Make baby rattle and artistic carvings from the bones. Grind up whats left and use it as a protein supplemt in pet food.

I'm not there anymore. I don't care about the discarded shell and in all likelihood can no longer care from afar.

Organ donation doesn't necessarily require your death or even permanent loss of an organ. Bone marrow donation is a life saving procedure that only requires a small amount of pain and inconvenience for the donor. entering the registry used to require a small blood sample but now they can do it with a cheek swab. It's the same DNA collection procedure you see on CSI.

The actual donation has become far easier, too. It used to involved pulling some marrow out of you hip bone through a syringe. It would replenish within a few weeks. Now, they give you a drug to draw stem cells from your marrow into your bloodstream and then draw some blood. The stem cells can then be filtered from your blood and used to treat the patient. The drug, Neupogen, can have some annoying side affects similar to some symptoms of the flu but they disappear once the procedure is complete.

So get with the program, you pussies.

http://www.bonemarrow.org/index.html
 
Wow, I'm surprised at the cynicism about this.

Trust me, we are "saving" too many people by providing full care to hopeless cases rather than pulling the plug early. The fear that doctors would prefer to let you die just to get your organs is completely ludicrous.
 
Book.

I am not, my wife is. However I donate blood as often as allowed, and would like to be a Bone Marrow donor. Thanks for that website.
 
[quote name='LXL_Guy']Not an organ donor either but it's due to religious reasons. Enough said.[/quote]

Since when is douchebag a religion?

Seriously, this shit costs you guys nothing, and, with minimal effort, you could help save a life. fucking leeches.

I especially expected better from you, dafoomie. Since when have you ever been a conspiracy theorist?
 
[quote name='dafoomie']I'm not taking the chance that they won't do absolutely everything within their power to save my life before deciding its time to take the organs.

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this does happen. if two people come in to an ER with the exact same injuries and ones a donor and one is not, the person who is not will receive more immediate, life saving treatments.

i am not a donor on paper, but when i kick the bucket, ill donate, my loved ones know.
 
Not an organ donor, the idea of me living on inside someone else is creepy, yet now that I think of it mildly appealing. It's like my legacy continues as someones kidney.
 
[quote name='dopa345']Wow, I'm surprised at the cynicism about this.

Trust me, we are "saving" too many people by providing full care to hopeless cases rather than pulling the plug early. The fear that doctors would prefer to let you die just to get your organs is completely ludicrous.[/quote]

Agreed. Once I'm gone, I don't need them, I'd be honored to help someone else live through such little effort. To me it's not even a question, it's a given... I'm quite surprised so many people aren't and are so ambivalent on the subject.
 
[quote name='dafoomie']
Plus, whats in it for me? Nothing but risk as far as I'm concerned and no reward.[/QUOTE]

The reward is saving another human life. But to each his own.
 
[quote name='dafoomie']I'm not taking the chance that they won't do absolutely everything within their power to save my life before deciding its time to take the organs.

Plus, whats in it for me? Nothing but risk as far as I'm concerned and no reward.[/quote]

Focus on the former and not the latter.

For the organ donors in the haus: Don't receive any injuries that COULD kill you unless exceptional means are taken.
 
[quote name='DarkSageRK']Since when is douchebag a religion?

Seriously, this shit costs you guys nothing, and, with minimal effort, you could help save a life. fucking leeches.

I especially expected better from you, dafoomie. Since when have you ever been a conspiracy theorist?[/quote]

No I was actually being serious about not being an organ donor due to my religion and cultural background but say what you will.
 
They should take organs from anyone that's dead. What the hell are you going to do with them? You are dead. Your "gods" (lol) aren't going to judge because your missing organs. Religion, the worlds biggest cult.

Yes I am. I also donate blood every once and a while
 
If I'm dead and someone wants one of my organs they can have it, however I'm listed as no because I'm paranoid that someone will kill me to get my brain. :)
 
[quote name='DarkSageRK']I especially expected better from you, dafoomie. Since when have you ever been a conspiracy theorist?[/QUOTE]
If there were any advantage at all, say, if being an organ donor gets you higher on the list if you ever need an organ donated to you, I'd consider it. But as it stands there is no incentive for me to take the risk that the preservation of my organs might take priority over the preservation of me.
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']If I'm dead and someone wants one of my organs they can have it, however I'm listed as no because I'm paranoid that someone will kill me to get my brain. :)[/quote]

After your post, i dont see why anyone would want it :D:p

Anyway, yes i am an organ donor. I dont see why you wouldnt be :whistle2:s...
I would give Hannibal Lecter my liver for his tea :) (if he was real that is).
 
HA! My organs barely work for me, I doubt anyone else would want them. Shitty broken endocrine system ruined everything from the top down. Transplant them and they'd probably kill the person instantly.
 
[quote name='Evil Poptart']I am. I'm told it'll most like be the only useful thing I ever do. :cry:

Side note: I'm surprised it took 3 replies for a penis joke to pop up. I figured if anything, it'd be the first, second and third.[/quote]

Wow! This thread got a whole lot cheerier :p
 
My wife's grandfather wanted to have his body (well, whatever organs they could use) donated to the medical school, but since he had surgery shortly before death, they wouldn't take it. So don't think your choice necessarily matters. But don't worry, they still put him on a ventilator at the family's request before he died. Conspiracy averted!

They mostly wanted to do that for the free cremation.
 
I'm not on my Driver's License, due to personal concerns based on consumer and medical greed. However, if I'm in a position where I'm brain dead I gave permission to my family to harvest my organs.
 
As soon as I was able to do so, I became an organ donor. I might as well try to help someone if I'm dead anyway. Besides I don't give a crap what happens to my body once I'm dead. :whee:
 
I got some weird looks when I said yes to being an organ donor too. I am of the opinion that if I'm gravely injured (chance of pulling though next to nothing), brain dead or the like that I'd like anything still working good inside of me to give someone else a chance for life.

Sure, I'd like it to be the 10 year old child prodigy piano master, but maybe it's really just someone with a family who is suffering watching their loved one die slowly. If I'm kaput, don't keep me on life support for years until my body just stops functioning.

If you aren't for religious reasons like LXL, that's cool. No need to jump on the guy. But conversely, both of those "warning" horrible scenario links are about the same person. It's the first time a criminal proceeding could come forward in one of these situations. Hopefully, if they find wrong doing the doctor goes to jail. But the fear mongering over the bad risk shouldn't overshadow the whole. The OPO's are private, non-profit, government sanctioned. Which means write a letter if you are so concerned. Turn the pressure back on them.

There's lots of people dying without the organs too, so there's no clear cut answer here. Just don't be a dick to each other about it.
 
[quote name='Hydro2Oxide']Not an organ donor, the idea of me living on inside someone else is creepy, yet now that I think of it mildly appealing. It's like my legacy continues as someones kidney.[/quote]
I live on through this ahhhhm!

I'm an organ donor.. if I'm gone I won't be using them anyway.
 
[quote name='xDARKx Knight']After your post, i dont see why anyone would want it :D:p
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Bastard.... :lol:

It doesn't matter I don't drive and my ID doesn't have it listed.
 
I cannot understand why you would not be an organ donor. Religious reasons are understandable, although I do not know why a religion (or any God, for that matter) would be against attempts to save others' lives through giving of yourself.

If it isn't completely obvious, I am a donor, both of organs on my license and of blood regularly.
 
I'm surprised at the amount of selfishness and paranoid cynicism, particularly from a couple of you who I thought were smarter than that. There is absolutely no good, logical reason not to be an organ donor.
 
I'm not, I have it figured that the day after I die they will find a cure for death and I could have been brought back to life.
 
Although the link escapes me at the moment I do recall reading a few pieces about the profits hospitals make from organ donation. It's actually quite a bit a profit if I do remember correctly. It seems a bit absurd that hospitals should have such windfalls from folks with good intentions.

Also falun gong trucks olololol
 
I forgot something that I wanted to add to this discussion:

When I was a junior in high school, a good buddy of mine got into a bad wreck over Christmas holidays (small Civic t-boned by a semi), and every bone in his body was shattered. He lived a couple of days on life support, and then he died. He was an organ donor, so his organs went to various people who needed them badly. A couple months later, the recipients of his organs met with his parents to tell them how much they appreciated his unselfish gift. The whole ordeal received some local news coverage, and it really put a wonderful twist on a sad time.

It was really weird to go back to school after Christmas holidays, because he sat right next to me in Calculus, so seeing that empty seat was rough.

At any rate, his unselfishness saved several lives and served as a powerful unspoken eulogy for him. I urge non-donors to rethink their decision, and to try and imagine how you would feel if you were in dire need of organ replacement.
 
I am a donor. It seems extremely selfish to me, not to be. You don't need them anymore and if they are going to "kill me" to take them after I become brain dead or whatever, go ahead.

But it's cool if you don't want to save lives or whatever.
 
I'm not an organ donor. When I die I want to be kept whole - it's just what I believe in; it's kind of disturbing to think that the doctors would cut me open and take what they needed.

If someone needed a kidney while I'm alive then maybe but I just think there's something wrong with cutting up a person who just died.

Want to throw this out to the non organ donors - are you willing to accept an organ if you needed it? I honestly don't know how to answer it but I'm leaning on no.
 
I wasn't an organ donor for some reason (I don't recall seeing the box when I got my license, but maybe I just missed it). This thread reminded me to sign up, which I did a few minutes ago. Good work, CAG!
 
[quote name='IvanHood']I wasn't an organ donor for some reason (I don't recall seeing the box when I got my license, but maybe I just missed it). This thread reminded me to sign up, which I did a few minutes ago. Good work, CAG![/QUOTE]

Word, I don't remember seeing it the first time I got my license but when I renewed it, I also signed up to be an organ donor with no hesitation.

I'm also really surprised as to how (almost) evenly divided the poll is.
 
When I die you can have my organs.

I'd stay away from eyes (crappy vision) and my liver (I beat that thing back into submission in my college days)
 
[quote name='neocisco']I'm surprised at the amount of selfishness and paranoid cynicism, particularly from a couple of you who I thought were smarter than that. There is absolutely no good, logical reason not to be an organ donor.[/QUOTE]

Yeah I'm a bit surprised too. I hope everyone who says no needs a transplant and then dies. It's a harsh lesson, but I feel they will agree it was necessary afterward.

Just kidding... mostly.

Also I don't understand why people care so much about keeping their body whole. It's either going to be devoured by worms and fungus or burnt to ashes. Either way, as soon as you die you will no longer care about your body and at that point it is pretty much a giant sack of chemicals and organs. Why not save a half dozen lives with it?
 
I'd want my organs to be used, but I don't want it advertised on my id simply because they won't try as hard if they know I AM a organ donor. But once I die, do whatever you want with the organs. I'd stay away from my eyes as I'm legally blind.
 
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