Born Free

LOL Ronin I need my eyes tested at first I thought you had typed "I love titties"!!!!

Anyways I would dearly love to donate blood again but I did it in Feb last year for the first time and felt like shit for ages afterwards so I'm scared to do it again. However you never know if it was that or something else so I suppose giving blood again would tell me one way or the other.

Ronin

Strangely enough, alli, that is what I though I had typed...oh, well, I'll just let the typo stand f(o)r n(o)w.

Last time I gave, I made the mistake of doing it spontaneously after a long 12 hour shift (without eating) as I was walking toward a mall exit.

The mall was having a blood drive, so I stopped in...BIG tactical error.

There's nothing quite like having the old CPU shut off...and then rebooting with no information to explain the people in white coats lifting your legs up and all in your face yelling someone's name at you.

Rousseau_CHN

atheist here but is not going to donate organs--any organs.

might make scientist indolent.

"What's the need to create artificial organs, let's just wait for a donor!" I would not like to hear that from a scientists.

If neccessity is the mother of invention, then I'll refuse to donate to make it necessary for scientist to pace up their research on bio-engineering.

Viti

Um, is this serious? There's a huge shortage of organs, people die every day waiting for them, they are already working on trying to clone or grow or whatever replacement organs.

Rousseau_CHN

am i serious?

of cours i am...

when my heart fails, I won't be bothering the dead for theirs...

and the reasoning "i won't be needing it anyway when i'm dead" sounds very much like grave robber to me.

have anyone of you had a transplat before?

coz if you do...you'd know that complication quicly arises out of it...the "donees" body will simply reject the foreign materials...


man, if it's your time to go...it's your time to go....don't cling desperately to it...have some dignity, have some pride.

Jamie_L

For some reason, I just can't get over the wierdness involved in thinking about it to donate my organs. And then there's my wife: she's not an atheist, but she's about as close to agnostic as you can get and still qualify as a believer. Her opinion is that she doesn't trust doctors to put their best efforts into saving her life if they know that they can use her organs if she croaks. It's a bit paranoid, but the older I get, the more respect I develop for mild paranoia.

Jamie

Viti

I donated a kidney to a friend in September. He was 32 years old and his kidneys were destroyed by a medicine he was taking for colitis (which went into remission). You think a 32 year old should just let go and die with dignity? Tranplantees must take immunosuppresants this is true...but his quality of life is amazingly improved, and he should have 30 or more years left instead of the 5-10 he would have had on dialysis.

southernhybrid

I'm an organ donor but I hope to wear all of my organs out myself by living a very long life.

Treacle Worshipper

I have an organ donor card; I figure that I would accept an organ if I needed one, so it's only fair to offer mine (if they can use them). My mum knows about it & is cool with it, but my dad doesn't know, because he's totally against organ donation. (I don't know why - it might be the "ickiness" factor.) (I'm going to have to find another "next-of-kin" if I outlive my parents, as is likely ) I also give blood, altho' I haven't been for well over a year, 'cos of meds. Ho-hum. When I get off those I'm going to look at going on the bone marrow register as well.

I wouldn't mind donating my body to science, but I haven't really looked into it. I don't really care what they do with it as long as they take my heart out. I really hate the idea of being buried alive, it's about the only thing that bothers me about death.

Oh yeah, and I want to be buried under a tree, in one of those places where they just have a meadow & no markers. Then I get to be a tree.

TW

Debbie T

Why are there concerns about your body after you die? You won't be around to know or care who sees you or what they do or say about your body.

I listed on my driver's license that I will donate my organ's. My husband is doing the same so both of us will make sure our wishes are carried out. If someone can have a better life when I die, I am all for it.

My neighbor just bought a motorcycle (he is going through his second childhood)so I jokingly asked him if he was an organ donar. He won't donate because he thinks why should he donate so the doctor's and hospitals can charge huge sums of money for the organ?