I've made it known that I want to be an organ donor, but that's not on my driver's license. Everyone who knows me knows it, I don't think it's any cop's business. People who know me would know about my condition before it even came into question, because I'm a homebody and it's not too hard to contact my family and friends. I don't care if they claim it's "not true" that organ donors are sometimes "sacrificed" so to say or get less care because they need to do a transplant, that information is still there and no one can for sure say someone's motive. Since I was a child, I've let it be known exactly what I would want, should something ever happen to me, because of all the drama that might ensue if I didn't. God knows the world doesn't need another Terry Schiavo.
I dont think its right we donate organs worth piles of cash to the medical community and we can demand the people or economic class of people who they go to. I mean we give blood and they sell it for several hundred dollars a pint. Would sell a couple cookies and juice for $400+ per person??
I told the Department of Motor Vehicles that they can have all my shit if I get deaded. I imagine my oldies will be mad as hell, cause i suspect they will want an open casket if I go before my time. But I figure that if my death saves one other person, then it's worth it. What is an open casket funeral with me wearing makeup going to save? To me, it simply does not make sense to not donate your body to science if they can get anything from your dead body that they can't make themselves. Let medical students play with my dead body to see how things look, so they can learn and then go on to save other people. Simply doesn't make sense to me.
Charges hospitals charge for donated body items: SOURCE Heart $659,900.00 Lung $399,500.00 Liver $519,600.00 Pancreas $297,300.00 Intestines $909,600.00 Kidney $246,400.00 Cornea $ 23,300.00 Bone Marrow $273,100.00 to $602,200.00 And they want it given to them?
There are actually lots and lots of Terry Schiavo's.....they just don't all get media coverage. Make sure you do have a living will though. If you want to be cremated....will they get your organs and then burn ya up?
Forget the the money factor, your tissue and organs can give another a chance to live, thats all that matters. Whether a individual can or not afford a transplant it will be done. I know this because my cousins husband received a liver from a most generous soul and now he has a life with a beautiful child and another one on the way.
Once I turn eighteen I think that I'd like to become a doner. I'm not going to need them once I kark it so they may as well be given to someone who really need's them.
17 year old dies because doctors wont do surgery whithout being sure insurance company will pay for it! LINK If saving the life and not making profit off donated organs was really going on then why the need for a group to assist in raising the money to get a person the transplant?? Maybe if more were done without having to wait growing weaker while trying to raise funds to get name even put on list for organ. SOURCE Man dies because they would not even place him on the donor list beacause he could not pay. SOURCE Kids who loose medical insurance coverage after kidney transplant are 9 TIMES more likely to die because they will be denied life saving anti rejection drugs because they cant afford them SOURCE Now if you have money then you get jet set to the front of the list... David Crosby comes to mind real quick.
Way to many problems with blood and organ transplants...it seems like it is just not meant to be, so I choose not to donate blood or organs and even in a life or death situation I would refuse to accept either...blood is life and I dont want nobodys life inside me.
Way too many problems with blood and organ transplants ? Problems like what ? And you wouldnt accept someones blood even if you're dying ? Thats just stupid. Plain stupidity.
ever heard of Hepatitis or Aids I would accept synthetic blood though oh yeah, and thanks for calling me stupid
"Approximately 1 in 100 transfusions are accompanied by fever, chills, or urticaria [hives]. . . . Approximately 1 in 6,000 red cell transfusions results in a hemolytic transfusion reaction. This is a severe immunologic reaction that may occur acutely or in a delayed fashion some days after the transfusion; it may result in acute [kidney] failure, shock, intravascular coagulation, and even death."—National Institutes of Health (NIH) conference
