Organ donation

just seen this while trying to find the Viz donor card

Just to return to this - if you're represented in the afterlife* by your body's state when you die, then surely it doesn't matter whether you organs are removed after that point?

If you're represented by your body's state as it is currently is on earth, then cremation's out unless you want to be a big cloud of ash. If you get buried then you'll soon be wandering around heaven looking like a George Romero extra. The only answer is mumification, in which case you have your brain and all your internal organs removed, anyway.

*doesn't exist, by the way.

That is an interesting point.

My donor card says all my organs are available but not to piss heads or smack heads who have destroyed their own through abuse. Whether they will take that seriously who knows

'The list' isn't just literally a list in order of who's been waiting the longest for an organ. The criteria's are age, condition, tissue match, blood match, medical history amongst others so your organs wouldn't go to some dickhead don't worry. The NHS take it extremely seriously. Hence why I waited nearly 4 years when I was on piority.

Have you kept all of your toenail clipping ever and every hair that has fallen out of your head (about 20 a day I think on average). Have you collected each gob of spit, each snot rocket and every bit of chunder from a mental night out? Do you keep all of your turds and jack off into a special container so that one day in the future when you are no longer able to appreciate it every atom that has ever been a part of you can be buried in the same place?

He's not a bit like you, TSK, so I'm sure he hasn't. ;)

Actually, here's one for you lynx. Say a close relative contracted a medically incurable condition that was imminently life threatening. You, by some form of bizarre providence are the only match for them to have a kidney transplant, the only procedure that will save them from a premature death. Would you reject their request for an organ that you can quite reasonably spare?

Consequentialist casuistry is boring.

That is an interesting point.

Thanks, but it isn't really. It's a stupid hypothetical in response to another stupid hypothetical.

Thanks, but it isn't really. It's a stupid hypothetical in response to another stupid hypothetical.

Its something bouncing round my mind at the moment.

"my organs not too small, your chapel is too big!"

This was pulled out at souths yesterday - good mileage indeed.

Incidentally, @The Seldom Killer, what if you donated an organ, saving the life of a person that then went on to become a terrible and vicious tyrant, who performed breathtaking acts of genocide and general evil? Would that make organ donation wrong?

You are literally the first person in a very long time to take a look at the other side of that particular coin.

I think it's important to provide people with an opportunity to realise good potential and take steps to prevent them from realising bad potential, to speak rather reductively on the subject. Besides if a recipient of one of my organs were to go down the latter path then I would be after them for a refund, by force if necessary.

Of course, if this all comes about post mortem, then fuck it you're all screwed. I will rest easy in the knowledge that I did the thing that I consider to be right at the time I did it.

This was pulled out at souths yesterday - good mileage indeed.

Dogsballs organ?

i have tried registering 3 times, but each time the website crashes.

it's funny, i'm not a massive fan of the human race and think there are too many of us, but since my accident, when someone else's blood saved my life, i realise what donating blood/organs can mean to so many people - not just the recipient, but all of their family and friends.

i want to donate everything. yes i have moments when ifeel a bit weird about been cut up and handed out, but i'll be dead so it doesn't matter!

organ donation MUST become opt out.

In fact we should even have financial incentives for live organ donation.

BANG!

thats the way it should be, no idea why this doesn't happen?!?!

maybe I donate my head of thick hair to a bald man.

dibs!

I was discussing this just yesterday.

I think that it should be an 'opt out' system rather than an 'opt in' one, so it is taken for granted that you will donate organs unless you are on the opt out list.
This is the compromise solution, my personal feelings on it is that it should be mandatory and no one should have the choice to refuse on any grounds....

i couldnt make my mind up for ages as for or against , then all of a sudden i decided yes so now carry donor card

BANG!

thats the way it should be, no idea why this doesn't happen?!?!

One of the reasons AIDS spread beyond the main risk groups was that in America people are paid for blood donations. This resulted in a lot of (infected) junkies selling their blood to pay for a fix.
I suspect that after this happened health authorities and governments are a little reluctant to have junkies selling their kidneys.

Imagine having to wait for someone to die so that you could have their lungs and - fingers crossed - not follow suit...

http://transplantwait.blogspot.com/

It should be presumed everyone 'opts-in' but if they 'opt-out' that they are then ineligible for possible receipt of donor organs should they require them.

They can take my eyes too, I am leaving instructions in my will to have an open casket with two black gaping holes in my scowling dead face.

It should be presumed everyone 'opts-in' but if they 'opt-out' that they are then ineligible for possible receipt of doner organs should they require them.

They can take my eyes too, I am leaving instructions in my will to have an open casket with two black gaping holes in my scowling dead face.

LOL. 'Doner' organs...

Ah fuck this work computer.
Reliance on inline checker..

LOL. 'Doner' organs...

dont give me kebab eaters organs, alright? say youll never do that.

LOL. 'Doner' organs...

Another thing, just because your spelling and grammar are faultless doesn't mean you know shit about brakeless riding.

Another thing, just because your spelling and grammar are faultless doesn't mean you know shit about brakeless riding.

That's because I'm (perhaps surprisingly) insufficiently arrogant to do it off the track...

That's because I'm (perhaps surprisingly) insufficiently arrogant to do it off the track...

That's what you would say though isn't it?

That's what you would say though isn't it?

So it would seem...

Duh.