Organ Donor - opt in or opt out

[ali_alic]

My friends and I had a bit of a discussion about this and I would like to know ABers opinions. To put it simplisticly I believe if you are willing to receive (for you or on behalf of someone else, child etc), you should be willing to give. To this end I think Organ Donations should be on an opt out basis. This would cover all those people with religious beliefs who are against it who could opt out and would cover all those people who have no objection but just never got round to getting a donor. I know some people would state that it may be hard to prove you have opted out when you've been involved in a bad accident, but surely on the whole the greater good would be served??
If the majority of us, even by default, were donors this would also take away a lot of the "don't trust 'em to wait until I'm dead" fears as hopefully there will be a lot more organs to go round.
By the way I am both a blood and organ donor. Over 60 pints of blood so far!

[ali_alic]

4getmenot - sorry, wasn't having a go, just mistook what you meant by "having seen it". I was genuinely horrified that someone had gone through that and fgelt bad for you. As for opposite opinions, I welcome them and if fact a good point was raised on a previous thread that actually made me rethink my opinion on another matter.

It is a matter of choice and should always be so. I was orignally just trying to gauge the opinion re opt in (as is now) and opt out.

Sorry - didn't mean to offend, re-read my post with that in mind and you will see that I wasn't being mean!!

[4getmenot]

That�s fine no argument just a good conversation ali I just felt you were trying to change mine and nox�s view. If everyone felt the same and were willing to give their organs we wouldn�t be given a choice and they would just do it. Some of my friends that have died have saved a lot of lives. One gave organs to 6 different people and that gave me a very warm feeling knowing that it had helped but I just cant bring myself to sign a donar card. I take your views and can see totally where you are coming from.

[redcrx]

ali, 4getmenot meant that that is her opionion of what might happen, not that she has seen it first hand or know thats what happens.

Heres one for those of you hellbent on arguing. I do not carry a donor card or give blood. I am needle phobic and have a serious fear of hospitals and any pain at all. I would give blood if i could be given the emla cream but its not given and i would sign a donor card if my organs were taken under a general anesthetic. I know many people who feel the same as me about the general and apparently both used to be an option.

[noxlumos]

Getting back to the question of does it really happen I think that it does, mainly bcause a friend of my wife's is a Dr and advised her not to carry a donor card for that reason and he hasn't got one either. You can only draw your own conclusions about that as we did and act accordingly, but realistically if you think about it, it has to happen, particularly in this day and age when parents are having to take hospitals to court to get orders that the hospital must try to do everything to save their child because some Drs seem to think that parental rights can be ignored regarding resuciatation in seriously ill babies and children. I think it's a very dangerous path to take aqnd not one I'm willing to take. As I said once I'm dead you can have whatever you like, but I don't want any Dr knowing that in advance.

[tradey]

sorry to have just got back to you,well its not my parents who dont want me to its my husband,but at the weekend im taking him out and sitting him down and telling him im getting a card and thats it,its something ive always wanted to do,even more since i lost my dad 7yrs ago,thankyou so much ali_alic