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ﮎingulaЯiτy

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Who's an organ donor?
« on: December 05, 2010, 11:16:49 AM »
And I will judge you.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2010, 11:20:32 AM »
I think I ticked the box for organ donor on my drivers license application
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2010, 11:46:18 AM »
organ donor
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2010, 11:51:20 AM »
I got no use for my organs after death so I'm an Organ Donor.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2010, 12:07:04 PM »
Organ donor. I don't want 'em.

I've heard people go, "Waaah! But the doctors will be more likely to let you die! Waaah!"

Come on. Really? Do you really think a doctor will let one patient die so that the surgeon can get a transplant job? Furthermore, the doctors probably won't be thinking, "Wait a second. Isn't this guy an organ donor?" Argh.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2010, 12:20:58 PM »
Not an organ donor.

FUck all the people who want my organs. I don't want em trying to kill me for em.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2010, 01:15:56 PM »
I am. And donate blood. I tried to join the bone marrow donation registry so that they can test to see if I'm a match for a little boy I know with leukemia, but they won't let minors do it :-\ Which sucks, cuz that day there was a sponsor paying the hundred-dollar fee for the cheek swab.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2010, 01:21:17 PM »
Quote from: Muphci on December 05, 2010, 01:15:56 PM
I am. And donate blood. I tried to join the bone marrow donation registry so that they can test to see if I'm a match for a little boy I know with leukemia, but they won't let minors do it :-\ Which sucks, cuz that day there was a sponsor paying the hundred-dollar fee for the cheek swab.

Yeah, no shit.

Blood donor: Needle, done.

Bone marrow donor: ANESTHESIA, NEEDLE TO PELVIS. HOUR. PAIN.

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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2010, 01:26:28 PM »
Quote from: theonlydann on December 05, 2010, 12:20:58 PM
Not an organ donor.

FUck all the people who want my organs. I don't want em trying to kill me for em.
If you fuck up your organs enough, you can get revenge.  ;)

But seriously why not? It may weird you out while you're alive, but you won't care after you die any more than you cared before you were conceived.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2010, 01:27:17 PM »
I'm saving my bone marrow for a tasty soup at my funeral
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2010, 01:28:19 PM »
Quote from: Colonel Gaydafi on December 05, 2010, 01:27:17 PM
I'm saving my bone marrow for a tasty soup at my funeral

How is it not illegal to be this awesome?  :-*
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2010, 01:29:22 PM »
This shit is opt-in, right?

In that case, I'm not an organ donor, though I would have nothing against donating my organs.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2010, 01:29:51 PM »
Quote from: ﮎingulaЯiτy on December 05, 2010, 01:28:19 PM
Quote from: Colonel Gaydafi on December 05, 2010, 01:27:17 PM
I'm saving my bone marrow for a tasty soup at my funeral

How is it not illegal to be this awesome?  :-*

It might be...uh oh
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2010, 01:35:03 PM »
Quote from: Blanko on December 05, 2010, 01:29:22 PM
This shit is opt-in, right?

In that case, I'm not an organ donor, though I would have nothing against donating my organs.

When you get your driver's license, it is a optional check box on a mandatory form. If you already have your license, I would imagine you can change it when you get it renewed. However, I respectfully ask that you don't wait.

You live in 'merica?
http://organdonor.gov/donor/index.htm
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2010, 01:36:20 PM »
I wouldn't recommend that anyone be an organ donor.

- If you have an accident and the doctor gets to you late they will have to make the hard choice of trying to to revive you and beginning the harvesting process.

- There are stories of doctors harvesting the bodies of people who were not technically dead.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #15 on: December 05, 2010, 01:39:16 PM »
Quote from: Trekky0623 on December 05, 2010, 01:21:17 PM
Quote from: Muphci on December 05, 2010, 01:15:56 PM
I am. And donate blood. I tried to join the bone marrow donation registry so that they can test to see if I'm a match for a little boy I know with leukemia, but they won't let minors do it :-\ Which sucks, cuz that day there was a sponsor paying the hundred-dollar fee for the cheek swab.

Yeah, no shit.

Blood donor: Needle, done.

Bone marrow donor: ANESTHESIA, NEEDLE TO PELVIS. HOUR. PAIN.



The chances of me being a match are extremely slim. However, if I could, I would. Max is facing death before even really having the chance to live. Mom and Dwain got swabbed.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #16 on: December 05, 2010, 01:39:27 PM »
Quote from: Tom Bishop on December 05, 2010, 01:36:20 PM
I wouldn't recommend that anyone be an organ donor.

- If you have an accident and the doctor gets to you late they will have to make the hard choice of trying to to revive you and beginning the harvesting process.

- There are stories of doctors harvesting the bodies of people who were not technically dead.

There are many more stories about people's lives being saved from organ donors. I'll take the chance that I might do some good after I die rather than the slim chance I get handed to Doctor Burke
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #17 on: December 05, 2010, 01:42:42 PM »
Quote from: Muphci on December 05, 2010, 01:39:16 PM
Quote from: Trekky0623 on December 05, 2010, 01:21:17 PM
Quote from: Muphci on December 05, 2010, 01:15:56 PM
I am. And donate blood. I tried to join the bone marrow donation registry so that they can test to see if I'm a match for a little boy I know with leukemia, but they won't let minors do it :-\ Which sucks, cuz that day there was a sponsor paying the hundred-dollar fee for the cheek swab.

Yeah, no shit.

Blood donor: Needle, done.

Bone marrow donor: ANESTHESIA, NEEDLE TO PELVIS. HOUR. PAIN.

The chances of me being a match are extremely slim. However, if I could, I would. Max is facing death before even really having the chance to live. Mom and Dwain got swabbed.

That's not the point. They're not going to stick a needle in a 12-year-old's pelvis.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #18 on: December 05, 2010, 01:44:27 PM »
Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on December 05, 2010, 01:39:27 PM
Quote from: Tom Bishop on December 05, 2010, 01:36:20 PM
I wouldn't recommend that anyone be an organ donor.

- If you have an accident and the doctor gets to you late they will have to make the hard choice of trying to to revive you and beginning the harvesting process.

- There are stories of doctors harvesting the bodies of people who were not technically dead.

There are many more stories about people's lives being saved from organ donors. I'll take the chance that I might do some good after I die rather than the slim chance I get handed to Doctor Burke
I Better be damn good and dead... like... my head exploded, before anyone even considers harvesting me.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #19 on: December 05, 2010, 01:45:30 PM »
Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on December 05, 2010, 01:39:27 PM
There are many more stories about people's lives being saved from organ donors. I'll take the chance that I might do some good after I die rather than the slim chance I get handed to Doctor Burke

Some years ago I read accounts from doctors who were faced with ethical dilemmas as the clock counted down when trying to revive a patient. They are on an extreme time limit between when you die and when the harvesting process must begin for the organs to be viable.

While I wouldn't mind being an organ donor, it's the extreme time limit which sways my decision.

I just wouldn't want to take that chance.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #20 on: December 05, 2010, 01:50:54 PM »
Quote from: Trekky0623 on December 05, 2010, 01:42:42 PM
Quote from: Muphci on December 05, 2010, 01:39:16 PM
The chances of me being a match are extremely slim. However, if I could, I would. Max is facing death before even really having the chance to live. Mom and Dwain got swabbed.

That's not the point. They're not going to stick a needle in a 12-year-old's pelvis.

But I'm not twelve; I'm sixteen. Surely I can handle a pelvis needle. You have to be between the ages of eighteen and sixty.

Also, to comment upon the not-being-one discussion Dann and TB brought up, if you're so bad off that they aren't sure if revival is possible, then you'd probably be a vegetable or close to it upon revival anyways. I'd rather be dead and let someone else live than be a vegetable and them dead.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #21 on: December 05, 2010, 01:51:02 PM »
The incentive simply isn't there. The doctor gets paid for saving lives, not giving the surgeon a job so that the doctor might be able to tell another patient that they got their transplant. No, the average doctor is not going to harvest organs until the patient is dead.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #22 on: December 05, 2010, 01:51:37 PM »
Quote from: Muphci on December 05, 2010, 01:50:54 PM
Quote from: Trekky0623 on December 05, 2010, 01:42:42 PM
Quote from: Muphci on December 05, 2010, 01:39:16 PM
The chances of me being a match are extremely slim. However, if I could, I would. Max is facing death before even really having the chance to live. Mom and Dwain got swabbed.

That's not the point. They're not going to stick a needle in a 12-year-old's pelvis.

But I'm not twelve; I'm sixteen. Surely I can handle a pelvis needle. You have to be between the ages of eighteen and sixty.

I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about minors in general. Dumb ass.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #23 on: December 05, 2010, 01:51:49 PM »
Quote from: ﮎingulaЯiτy on December 05, 2010, 01:35:03 PM
Quote from: Blanko on December 05, 2010, 01:29:22 PM
This shit is opt-in, right?

In that case, I'm not an organ donor, though I would have nothing against donating my organs.

When you get your driver's license, it is a optional check box on a mandatory form. If you already have your license, I would imagine you can change it when you get it renewed. However, I respectfully ask that you don't wait.

You live in 'merica?
http://organdonor.gov/donor/index.htm

I live in Finland and I don't have a driver's license, nor have I ever stated in any documents to be an organ donor.

I really don't know what the policy is concerning organ donation here.
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Muphci

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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #24 on: December 05, 2010, 01:52:38 PM »
LOOK IT UP AND SAVE SOME LIVES, DAMMIT.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #25 on: December 05, 2010, 01:54:31 PM »
Quote from: Blanko on December 05, 2010, 01:51:49 PM
Quote from: ﮎingulaЯiτy on December 05, 2010, 01:35:03 PM
Quote from: Blanko on December 05, 2010, 01:29:22 PM
This shit is opt-in, right?

In that case, I'm not an organ donor, though I would have nothing against donating my organs.

When you get your driver's license, it is a optional check box on a mandatory form. If you already have your license, I would imagine you can change it when you get it renewed. However, I respectfully ask that you don't wait.

You live in 'merica?
http://organdonor.gov/donor/index.htm

I live in Finland and I don't have a driver's license, nor have I ever stated in any documents to be an organ donor.

I really don't know what the policy is concerning organ donation here.

Its opt-out now, the law came into effect this year I think so you're an organ donor now
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #26 on: December 05, 2010, 01:54:52 PM »
I think organ donation should always be opt in. My organs are my property; please do not use them unless I give permission.
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Re: Who's an organ donor?
« Reply #27 on: December 05, 2010, 01:55:46 PM »
Apparently it's been opt-out since last August. Huh.

Too bad, I already voted no.

EDIT: Apparently I can remove my vote. Great, now I won't have to find arguments for protesting organ donation.
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« Reply #28 on: December 05, 2010, 01:56:18 PM »
It seems the reasoning they gave was that 90% of Finns would give donate their organs but only 20% have the organ donor cards and there's an organ shortage or something like that
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« Reply #29 on: December 05, 2010, 01:58:24 PM »
I would have to agree with the opt-in deal, but if the percentage that would but don't have cards is that high, then I think it's fine. Besides, if someone cares enough about it to say no, they're probably paying attention to what they have to do to say no.
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