what're your reasons for not being on the organ donor registry?

pimento

I'm on the register but am likely to need a kidney myself due to a hereditary genetic kidney problem.

My mum donated a kidney to my dad in 2006 and I expect if it came to it, my husband or sister would give me one if/when I needed it.

I think it should be an opt-out system. Anyone opted out should not have a donor organ made available if they need it.

rustyboy21

shellsuit wrote: »

What the hell?!

My body isn't my body? It was lent to me? By who?!

If my body should belong to anyone else other than me (which it doesn't, it's MY body!), then it would belong to my parents, who created me.

If people don't want to go on the register, that is entirely upto them and nobody should think bad of them at all.

What got your Goat? !

Where did I say people should think bad about not donating?

Your body is just a piece of machinery that you use whilst alive, as far as I see it. What matters to me is how a person lives their life and how they conduct themselves.

I hope to God that you don't ever need a transplant, more so if it came out of my body. I would Haunt you !

fuzzybear01

The only absolute contra-indications to donation are HIV disease (used to be known as full blown AIDS) and infection with CJD. You can be a donor if you are infected with HIV but don't have a related disease. If your organs are not suitable then tissue can be donated. Small parts of bone/skin etc can be donated. The skin that is taken is so thin that it will just look like sunburn, and a prosthesis will be inserted in the place of any bone that is removed.

rustyboy21

I think a lot of people are confused over ' opting out' of donation. It doesn't mean that they will take your organs if your family don't agree, it means that Doctors will be required to discuss it with relatives. Relatives have the last say.

Excerpt form uk transplant register....

Under a system of "opting out" or "presumed consent", every person living in that country is deemed to have given their consent to organ donation unless they have specifically "opted out" by recording in writing their unwillingness to give organs.
Supporters of such a system’s introduction in the UK believe that establishing an automatic right to take organs when the donor has not expressed wishes to the contrary would lead to a significant increase in the number of potential donors. They also conclude that the relatives or those close to a person who has not expressed a wish to donate would be relieved of the burden of making that decision at such a traumatic time.
One fear with presumed consent is that people won’t get round to registering an objection and the subsequent expectation that organ donation should take place could lead to unnecessary distress to their relatives and widespread adverse publicity.
Many transplant recipients add that a donated organ is more easily accepted because they know it has been positively given by the deceased whereas presuming consent would turn donation into an action by default.
Other concerns surround the potential medical risks involved in removing organs without full discussion with relatives. Families are a valuable source of information about their loved one's previous health and relatives are questioned as part of the screening process.
If an individual does not register an objection, it is possible that their silence may indicate a lack of understanding rather than agreement with the policy. It is because of these concerns that in the majority of countries operating an opt-out system, health care professionals still consult the family to establish consent.''

Jinx

I am on the register. That said, I absolutely support freedom of choice so I don't think we should automatically be on it. It is a very individual perspective and choice.

I think for those on the register its always good to tell family members their thoughts on this subject too.

ladylouise62

I wish to be cremated, so it makes no difference if all of me get's burned or not... except to any organ recipient of course. I can understand that a few people feel really strongly against it, but I can't inderstand why so few people who probably would be OK with it, have not registered. How many of those people would accept an organ if they got into difficulties?

The 'optout' system as proposed still allows relatives to say no (if I understand correctly, legally, they own the body, so even now if you register, it's not you who makes that final decision, but them), and if it were brought in, anyone opting out should be advised that that excludes them from benefitting themselves - if they don't want to have bits taken away then they shouldn't want them taken and replaced in life.

heretolearn_2

It's a personal choice but as far as I'm concerned you are either for it or against it. If you feel organ donation is wrong and you wouldn't let anything of yours be used, that's your prerogative and people should respect that. I also feel though that you have chosen to not participate in any way, so you shouldn't be able to receive anything either. If you don't believe in donation, you don't believe in receiving either, right?

yeah, right, most of those who refuse to donate to others would still want to be top of the queue if they ever needed anything. That's so incredibly selfish.

Alex-Riley.

I know people will find this weird if one of my organs was to fail I would not want a organ from a dead person (or a living person if that's possible) because I don't know what they did with those organs

nickyhutch

I know if I needed an organ I'd be glad of being able to have one donated, so think it's only fair that I'm on the register too. It would be a bit hypocritical to accept an organ if you weren't happy to donate one.

EchoLocation

crazyguy wrote: »

There mine all mine and no one is getting bits and pieces of me when I am dead thats for sure,

I support your right to make that choice, but care to elaborate on why?

Oliver14 wrote: »

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If it doesn't matter what happens after your dead why was there the major search and trying to piece piece victims bodies together after 9/11 if it doesn't matter why all the fuss? Why do the soldiers bodies get flown home if it doesn't matter what happen is after your dead. It may not matter to you but it matters to those left behind.

That has nothing to do with donating organs. That's about allowing people to say goodbye to their loved ones; and organ donation doesn't prohibit that.