organ donation

[boodie]

My radical idea..

at the moment you tick on your licence if you want to be an organ donor, however your relatives can overide your wishes, this is wrong.

It should be the other way around, that you only say if you DONT want to donate, otherwise it's taken as a given.

carry a card that says you dont want your organs used to help others.

Comments

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Interesting idea, the Tennessee license requires you to sign it, are 18 years old, that you are in sound mental health, and have two witnesses. A bit cumbersome as it stands really, pretty much the only reason I haven't done it.

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[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

*nods*

sounds good to me, so that your family knows and cant chage your stated wishes

Stinkin pesky organs, we'll be better off when their made obselete

[miffedmidget.livejournal.com]

The religous wackos would never stand for it.

They hold their own right to go to the improbable afterlife of their choice with intact organs, or their right to deny their children life saving apendix operations and many similar rights they MUST have, as more sacred than anyone elses duty to save lives by ticking a box.

And I here tell that ticking the box and having no obvious protestations doesn't make organ donation a sure thing, you virtually have to have a relative on the spot poking assuring people repeatedly that it was your desire and they grant permission.

I'm in a position where my most immediate family would see to it properly... but should it fall to to aunts, uncles, cousins, or my one surviving grand parent well... no sure thing.

I pity the sucker that gets my organs, the stomachs totally (apparently undiagnosably) screwed (do they do stomach transplants?), the liver is functioning at only 70 % (which probably damages the other organs to boot, especially kidneys), I doubt my asmatic lungs would help anyone and genetic propensity towards high cholesterol is probably already doing irreprable damage to my heart.

Hell last time I tried to donate blood they turned me away.

Re: Stinkin pesky organs, we'll be better off when their made obselete

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

very true, very very true..

the sanctity of the body nd all that rot

hey boodie. what's up?

[(Anonymous)]

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Another fascinating aspect to this movie is all the controversy that has been generated about it.
Some people, not really representative of Jewish people, but rather self appointed Jewish spokespeople, such as Abraham Foxman from the Anti-Defamation League, seem to have been attempting to denounce this film for months as being anti-Semitic. The news reported that they even stole the script last year! But here's what some Jews say (Jews who don't make it their job to tear apart other people): by Rabbi Daniel Lapin.

Nice to see some people speaking rationally.

So what do you think of all this?

*** Kyle

[elektron.livejournal.com]

Following that logic, when I die, everyone has dibs on my house unless I say otherwise.

Also, I don't want to carry a 'don't pickpocket me' card.

If you're 5 and you didn't know about organ donations, cutting you up could be against your wishes. If you do know about organ donations but don't sign a card, leaving you intact is very likely not against your wishes.

If course, if I say that I do want to be cut up and shipped around the country, relatives have no say, since when I die, my organs becomes owned by whichever ambulance comes first (or something).

I'm not sure what happens if your relatives decide that your organs could be better used to save someone else. "I don't want to be cut up" is a little hard to fulfill (and who presses charges on who if my relatives give my organs away against my will?), "I want to be cremated" even moreso (who pays for the cremation?). The most a will can realistically do is decide who to give stuff away to; deciding what happens to your body parts once someone else owns them can only really be done by the someone else.

This begs the question: What happens if you hate all your relatives and have no friends and don't trust lawyers?