Are You A Signed Up Register Organ Donor

I used to be an organ donor. After watching a full organ procurement i went the very next morning and had myself removed.
I had never questioned the fact of organ transplants,until this time. It had a very deep personal impact on me. So i am no longer a donor ,nor do I wish to recieve an organ should any of mine fail.

I'm not an organ donor either and as far as I'm concerned if I ever have to make that choice for any of mine, neither are they.

Until I can pick who gets my guts, I'll keep them. I decided that when a neighbor I've known for 36 years and who was the biggest sot and wife abuser/w hore hopper on earth was told his liver was killing him. He went to big UAB, stayed sober for a year, and is now on the donor list. Uh-uh. If I can't give my liver to a loving father/mother/teenager who has been an asset to this world, forget it. And up till now I can't figure out how to rise up from the dead and point to the person/people I want my insides to go to. So no.

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I used to be an organ donor. After watching a full organ procurement i went the very next morning and had myself removed.

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I'm not an organ donor either and as far as I'm concerned if I ever have to make that choice for any of mine, neither are they.

Until I can pick who gets my guts, I'll keep them. I decided that when a neighbor I've known for 36 years and who was the biggest sot and wife abuser/w hore hopper on earth was told his liver was killing him. He went to big UAB, stayed sober for a year, and is now on the donor list. Uh-uh. If I can't give my liver to a loving father/mother/teenager who has been an asset to this world, forget it. And up till now I can't figure out how to rise up from the dead and point to the person/people I want my insides to go to. So no.

How would that reasoning strike you if you had a child or a spouse dying on a waiting list?

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I used to be an organ donor. After watching a full organ procurement i went the very next morning and had myself removed.

What are you concerned about you'll be dead. Lets hear some more irrational excuses. No wonder tens of thousands die waiting for organs.

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How would that reasoning strike you if you had a child or a spouse dying on a waiting list?

I'd be thinking, hmmmm, maybe the organ donor people should make a point of screening their receivers better. Then maybe more people would be willing to sign up. Remember Mickey Mantle? Somebody wasted organs on that old drunk, that could've been used for a child or spouse. Twice.
Don't get huffy with me, worry about how to make sure the people who get the organs are somebody that will actually not kill the new one.

It's my liver. If I knew you or my family knew you, or if my family knew the circumstances surrounding your need for the organ, they have my permission to make the decision to donate. But random throwing my organs out there for the organ people to distribute. Nope. Nada. Never.

vick13, you are probably the most selfish person on here. im an organ donor, and you know why? mainly because i do have a chance to save a "good" persons life if i die..sure i take the chance of some alcoholic redneck taking my liver, so what, thats a chance im willing to take as long as it gives someone who actually deserves it a chance at a new life. and also, everyone makes mistakes in their life, thats why theres this little thing good people like to call "forgiveness". my dad used to be somewhat of a drinker, but not anymore, he is a good person now, so your saying that if by chance he needed a new liver you wouldnt give it to him even if you were dead and gone? you would rather have your organs rot underground instead of save a good mans life? thats just wrong if you ask me

I also got upset with the program when a woman in my cousin's hometown died, and they harvested her heart, lungs, kidneys, liver and eyes for transplant.

THEN they turned her over to the State for burial. The millions they made off her organs, the lives that were saved or altered and this poor woman got a paupers funeral.

Now THAT is a horrible glitch in the system, isn't it?

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Originally posted by thomaswayne0907:
vick13, you are probably the most selfish person on here.

And thus-far, you are the tackiest with that comment.

You think you can convince ANYONE of ANYTHING using insults as your ammo???

Yes, I'm a donor.

As am I and it makes me sad to see all these illogical excuses for not doing the right thing.

I trust that a good person will get my organs but frankly I'm dead anyway.

Your excuses sound like the guy who won't wear his seatbelt because he doesn't want to drown in the event his car runs into the lake. Whatever it takes to justify your cowardice and selfishness.

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Originally posted by vick13:

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How would that reasoning strike you if you had a child or a spouse dying on a waiting list?

I'd be thinking, hmmmm, maybe the organ donor people should make a point of screening their receivers better. Then maybe more people would be willing to sign up. Remember Mickey Mantle? Somebody wasted organs on that old drunk, that could've been used for a child or spouse. Twice.
Don't get huffy with me, worry about how to make sure the people who get the organs are somebody that will actually not kill the new one.

So since one percent of recipients shouldn't have received a organ everyone on the waiting list should die. Is that is honestly what you would be thinking if your child's was dying?

Chill, PR. Organ donation is a personal thing as it involves that person's organs, not your's. There are plenty of reasons to donate and there are plenty of reasons to not donate. There is no need to make excuses about a body you no longer need; so these are reasons, not excuses.

One I hear sometimes is the fear that if someone related to a medical professional needs one of my organs, will they let me die to get it? That's probably one too many Law & Order episodes talking, but there you go.

I looked on my driver's license and it doesn't say organ donor, but I thought that I had agreed to do that a long time ago.

I'm an organ donor. I figure that when I go, I'll be gone. If there is anything left of mine on this earth that anyone wants or needs, they are welcome to it.

That includes my eyes (I reckon you can have my contacts and glasses, too)...
my heart (it murmers and has a leak)...
my kidneys, liver, whatever else.

Yeah, there is a chance that my organs will go to a drunk or a wife beater. There is a chance that they'll go to a kid who just wants to go to prom, or a mom who just wants to see her baby go to prom one day. There is also a chance that Old Bubba the wife beater will get some extra time here on earth to find Jesus because someone donated the old sot a new liver. So, as long as they wait til I'm good and dead - and not a minute before!! - they can have my body. I'll be with Jesus, so I won't need it anymore.

And, if you are wondering, I plan on being cremated so my appearance in a casket is of no consequence. Just put whatever's left in the oven and then pop me in a nice vase on the mantle.

Amen to that TSC!

I agree with both sides of the story here. I was faced with this very decision just over 2 months ago. When my dad died we as a family were asked did we want his organs donated. Now in his case it was a very bad motorcycle accident and not many organs could be used but things like eyes and such could have been. My opinion was if there is somebody out therer that needs them then they can have them.

Now it is true that some wife beating murderer could be the reciepient but so could a small child who has never seen his new puppy! I tried to ask myself "What would daddy want?" Well daddy was a giver and would help anybody out in any way he could so I know he would have said "take them".

I don't see anyway that could be devised to screen organ reciepients based on their criminal history or status. That would be like saying, "Well Mr.?????, we can give you a heart transplant becasus you have a history or domestic violence and a DUI so we are sorry but your going to die in the next few days when your heart quits" I know that is a very harsh and extreme case but that would be the logic behind all decisions.

I say if I have something left that is still good and somebody else can use it then let them have it. If my organs end up in the body of a wife beater then when he meets his judgement it will be his to answer for.

Thats just another reason why you rock TSC

I was a donor and will be again in 4 more years.

I agree 100% with TSC. I'm an organ donor and I'm not concered with who recieves the donation. I figure that if God wants someone to have a second chance at life, they must be worth it in some way or another. Besides, what do I care, I'm dead.

I don't think there's any good reason to not be an organ donor.

An important thing to note is that the notation on your driver's license isn't legally binding; your family is the one who makes the decision, so you have to make sure that your wishes are known to them.