Whats your view on organ donation on your death ? For or Against !

[LochNessMonster]

Thought this would be a good question to raise for us all on Answerbank

[murraymints]

good idea..just as long as I was not switched off too soon for this purpose...

[rowanwitch]

I have a card that says under no circumstances approach my family re organ donation. I would not accept one neither do I want to be harvested

[dave50]

It's a good idea, i can think of no reason why not. When you die your body will either be burned or it will rot in the ground, so why waste the organs?

[jomifl]

Depends on which comes (or goes) first.

[EDDIE51]

Registered and card carrying doner for years now.

[boxtops]

Ambivalent at the moment.

[alid5]

I have been on the organ register for years, donated all parts suitable, it is a great legacy to leave behind helping to save other lives, my family have all been told too. Agree with dave50, their no use to you when you dead.

[Sqad]

Children, adults dying for what of a donated organ.......................
Opting out should be made compulsory.

People say now, that they wouldn't accept a donated organ, but i bet if "push came to shove" they would change their minds.

[ojread2]

Well, they aint much good once you're gone ...

[EDDIE51]

To my mind the 'body' is not the person . Personality (or soul to the religious) is what makes the person, as soon as death occurs the body is just a lump of decaying organic matter that has to be disposed of.
I have arranged for my body to be used for medical research or teaching students after they have used any parts that could be of use to anyone else.
Has the added advantage of being free so no funeral costs or money grabbing undertakers to deal with.

[ttfn]

The eyes have it - and the rest.

It comforts me to know that I might help others where I have failed before.

[rowanwitch]

I worked in a transplant unit and that is what made me decide. Its actually part of my advance directive that I would not wish to have my life saved with a transplant. I have too many body image issues and I know I'd never cope.

[alid5]

Great idea Squad 'Opting out should be made compulsory'

[brenda]

Registered, card carrier.

[EvianBaby]

It should be opt out.

You die, your organs go to someone who can do something with them.

[Sqad]

rowan

\\\\\ I have too many body image issues and I know I'd never cope.\\\

I don't understand that statement at all.........my fault almost certainly.....but could you explain?

[marval]

I have registered, they can any parts that are any good.

[NOX]

If my child needed an organ donation then obviously I would be so, so grateful to the person and family of the person who donated. If my child was in a coma and they said ' we want to turn off the machine and harvest their organs for use on others' I would be appalled and would refuse.
I know this is utter, utter double standards and an inexcuseable amount of selfishness on my part but I really don't think I could agree to that.
For myself I wouldn't care, they can take whatever they like.

[alid5]

Rowanwitch
'I worked in a transplant unit and that is what made me decide'
Why working in this unit would you decide against donating organs I would have thought it would be the opposite as to how many lives you can save??

[EvianBaby]

Nox - that's part of the reason I feel it should be opt out.

If a loved one is approached on the death of someone the emotions will of course be sky high so the thought of them giving permission to have their organs removed may be made under extreme grieving and many more people may refuse than they would if they were thinking with a clear head. If it's opt out then it just happens without a big song and dance being made about it and without any extra pressure on the relatives to make the right choice.