organ donation,years ago.

Person_one

Its a good question, but it would probably be better in Discussion Time.

milliebear00001

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Thanks for the update and sorry to anyone who has had problems with this kind of thing.

Genuine curiosity here - I'm with themull1 - what does it matter really? If you're religious, surely it's just the shell that's left behind? If you died of a disease, you could be helping save others from the disease...I really don't understand I guess. I read stories of people reduced to hysterics because a tissue sample was taken and preserved from the baby they so sadly lost, for research. I've heard of funerals for wax blocks with said preserved tissue in, which is crazy IMO!

Maybe it's because I worked in a histology lab that handled such samples, but I really don't understand the fuss about organ harvesting.

I'm all for an opt-out scheme for organ donation rather than opt-in.

Again, apologies if my curiosity offends people - it's certainly not meant that way - and I am sorry for those of you that have or have had issues with this in the past.

HBS x

As I see it, the issue is not so much that tissue samples and organs were kept, but that they were kept without permission. The difference is crucial to many people who will perceive their loved one as being 'part of them/belonging to them', rather than a hospital's or laboratory's to do what they like with willy nilly.

meritaten

asparagus1968 wrote: »

sorry not been back.thank you all for your thoughts.

good news,my uncle HAD A DONOR card! apparantly he got it when he got his motorbike and also discussed it with a close relative too.

gramdmother isn't a patient by the way,it was a family friend who was a nurse at the time in the same hospital who spoke to her a couple of years after his death.

anyhow,she is at peace that he didn't want to take his body intact with him ,if you see what i mean.

Thanks for the update asparagus.
Your grandmother must now feel very relieved that her sons wishes were abided by.

Nottoobadyet

I can certainly understand your gran's distress, especially if she felt that she might have been coerced into giving her consent to something when she was in no state to do so. I'm glad that the resolution has given her some peace.

tiamai_d

themull1 wrote: »

Why would anyone want organs back? is it for religious reasons? i'm not religious and it wouldnt bother me if organs were removed.

I don'tmean to offend anyone, just interested.

asparagus1968 wrote: »

sorry not been back.thank you all for your thoughts.

good news,my uncle HAD A DONOR card! apparantly he got it when he got his motorbike and also discussed it with a close relative too.

gramdmother isn't a patient by the way,it was a family friend who was a nurse at the time in the same hospital who spoke to her a couple of years after his death.

anyhow,she is at peace that he didn't want to take his body intact with him ,if you see what i mean.

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Thanks for the update and sorry to anyone who has had problems with this kind of thing.

Genuine curiosity here - I'm with themull1 - what does it matter really? If you're religious, surely it's just the shell that's left behind? If you died of a disease, you could be helping save others from the disease...I really don't understand I guess. I read stories of people reduced to hysterics because a tissue sample was taken and preserved from the baby they so sadly lost, for research. I've heard of funerals for wax blocks with said preserved tissue in, which is crazy IMO!

Maybe it's because I worked in a histology lab that handled such samples, but I really don't understand the fuss about organ harvesting.

I'm all for an opt-out scheme for organ donation rather than opt-in.

Again, apologies if my curiosity offends people - it's certainly not meant that way - and I am sorry for those of you that have or have had issues with this in the past.

HBS x

There are two different things that can happen with organs/tissue. It can be harvested and preserved for various reasons or donated.

I have no issues at all with either, so long as there has been consent from the individual or the family/next of kin.

However, removing organs/tissue without consent or even the knowledge of the individual/next of kin is very wrong, in my opinion. And if I were in the situation of a family member having had organs/tissue removed and stored without consent, I would want 'it' back to put to rest with the rest of the body. I would be angry if it had been donated, but I wouldn't persue it as far as the recipitant (so I wouldn't want it removed from someone else), but I would want to know who was responsible and to see that action was taken.

ETA, I know there are more than simply two fates for removed organs and tissues, but in ragards to this thread, only those two have been mentioned. Just to clarify before somebody comes up and posts 'oh but it can be destroyed, made into modern art etc'.

jackyann

Thsnks asparagus and I salute your uncle who was so thoughtful at such a young age. I hope you are all, in your different ways, at peace.