Are you registered as an organ donor?

[Blue-Jay]

Does your family know your wishes?

Why or why not on your decision?

[LeftyMom]

1. Yes and yes

I'm young and healthy, but if something were to happen to me my organs would do me no good and I'd rather they help somebody else. :)

[tuvor]

2. They made it more difficult in BC

Used to be all you had to do was sign your Health Care card, but for some reason they decided that wasn't working well. Then they proceeded to do a terrible job of telling us how to maintain donor status.

[Nicole]

3. Yes & Yes

I'm an organ donor & my family knows it.

I decided to be an organ donor as a teen when a family member's life was saved due to someone donating a heart.

[arwalden]

4. Can Homosexuals Be Organ Donors? I'm Not Allowed To Be A Blood Donor...

... do you think they would turn away my organs too?

[Skittles]

19. OH MY GAY STARS!!!

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? I MISSED YOU!!! :D

[terrya]

22. Seriously...that's a good point.

Since the Red Cross doesn't want our "tainted" blood, I'm not sure what the guidelines are about donating organs. And I think it's fucking sad that in the 21st century, we even have to ask this question.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. No, I can't

Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Mono, God knows what else...if there's a liver disease out there I'll come down with it.

[laheina]

21. Mono makes a person unacceptable?

I had mono in college, and nobody ever told me that. :shrug:

[EstimatedProphet]

31. I don't know if mono does, but Hep A&B sure do

[laheina]

36. For all organs or just the liver? nt

[EstimatedProphet]

39. Everything

It stays in the blood

[laheina]

41. Thanks for the info.

I have a family member that that pertains to. I'll pass the info along.

[anarch]

6. I am, but my organs would probably be unacceptable

Especially my liver.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Have been since I could be so legally

Never made any sense to me to put stuff in the ground or burn it if it still worked and somebody else needed it. On the form, I wrote that they could have anything they wanted, eyes included, as long as I was finished with it.

[ghostsofgiants]

16. Ditto.

Do what you want to me after I die, I won't care.

[laheina]

20. I wrote that they could have

anything, eyes included, just as long as it wasn't visible.

I don't think that I want someone walking around with my face. That just seems kinda' creepy.

[Hissyspit]

8. Yes, since I was 20. Reason?: Why the hell not.

Save someone's life, give them eyesight - all after I'm not here anyway.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

9. Have been for around thirty years, but as each year goes by,

I make a less desirable candidate. Ha, ha.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Yes, I am registered .......

And yes, my family knows about it......

I am registered because I am a healthy nurse, and I know how much good donated organs can do.....

How many lives they can help save, or improve.

Several times a year I also donate my platelets through a specialized blood donation procedure........

Another way to save lives......

Thank you for helping raise people's consciousness about these matters!


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[philosophie_en_rose]

11. Yes and I think so.

I'm a registered organ donor, and my family knows. However, I'm not sure that they'd respect my wishes about it. They might get sentimental about chopping up my dead body. :eyes:

I'll have to make it contingent in my will. Mess with the medical choices that I've set out and you don't get your cut of the hundreds of dollars :).

[fortyfeetunder]

12. Better to give than receive

not only an organ donor, but on the bone marrow list. I'd rather give than receive. the folks all know my next to last party, I'll be carved up to make others merry!

[Orangepeel]

13. Absolutely. Give the gift of life.

on the one hand, you can let your organs rot in the ground. On the other, you can be part of a medical miracle and give several people a second chance at life.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Yep.

I figure once I'm dead, I'm not going to need the shit anymore.

[NMMNG]

15. I have been since I turned 18

I'm registered to donate all usable organs and tissues. What good will they be to me once I'm dead?

[Kali]

17. yes - even though odds are I will be used as a cadaver

at some med school for training rather than the glamorous gift of life to a sick person. That is important too.

[Arugula Latte]

18. Yes -- I've made it clear that if any part/s of my body will help

another person or just the cause of science (cadaver, whatever), then, by all means, help yourselves when I'm done using 'em!

[eyesroll]

23. Yep.

I'll be dead; I won't need the organs.

My family knows, and there's a sticker on my drivers license.

[Debbi801]

24. yes, and my entire family knows my wishes. (nt)

[Radio_Guy]

25. Yes

When I am dead, I won't need them anymore. I hope I can then help someone else enjoy life longer.

[johnnie]

26. No

I know it isn't politically correct not to be one but I have problems with the fact that there are people hoping someone dies so they or a family member can live. I know that isn't every case, but I'm sure it happens.

I don't have any problems with anyone else being one though.

[wildhorses]

27. I am registered but, by the time they find my body it will not be

good for anything...

[KitchenWitch]

28. I am not, because I am not allowed

I have had lymphoma, which makes my organs not able to be donated.

[YankeyMCC]

29. Yes and Yes

It's for the same reason I give blood and platlets as often as I can. It's purely selfish, it's a way of ensuring I have contributed Something positive, done something useful (or at least some part of my body has been useful).

My instructions are, donate anything still useful to the living who are in need, donate the rest to science, keep a bit (I guess just hair would be left at that point) to burn and spread at the top of Mt Lafayette.

[Ohio Joe]

30. Yes and Yes

Most of my family are organ donors, everyone except my youngest brother, he thinks the idea is icky.

[supernova]

32. Yes, I am

They can have anything but I doubt they'd want my patched up, patchwork heart. I've got a VSD patch and two leaky valves. I tire easily.

But most of the rest of me is good: eyes are stellar even in my mid-40s, lungs are clear (non-smoking), liver and pancreas are good. So, they're welcome to anything they find useful.

And yes, my family knows my wishes.

[bigwillq]

33. No

For a very selfish reason, which I decline to say.

[Moondog]

34. No.

I was in the Air Force, and in the mid-80s I lived in England for three years. This was when people were contracting the human variant of Mad Cow disease, but no one knew it yet. Anyway, to make a long story short, as a result I cannot donate blood, or donate organs.

[prolesunited]

35. But that's not by your choice

It sounds as if you would if you could.

BTW: I accidentally posted this under Blue-Jay's account.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

37. I would if I could, but I can't so I won't.

My arthritis supposedly messes my organs up, and the drugs I'm on (Remicade among others) rules donation out altogether.

I can't donate blood either.

[politicat]

38. yes, and yes, and if my organs aren't needed or can't be donated, then

I'm willed to either University of Colorado Medical school or (if they ever get it going) the Colorado Body Farm.

And if they don't need me, then my family knows to donate my body to whoever wants it. There's no point in making my family pay for a funeral and cremation when donation to science will get it done for free and do good for the world.

[WCGreen]

40. I thought you said Orgasim donor....

Yes, I have registered to be an organ donor...

I have since 1979...

And now, in a few years, i may needs s new set of lungs....