If you'd take it, would you give it?

[Kerry]

No preaching, but if you'd take a heart/lung/kidney(etc) to survive would you give it? How many are on the donor register? How many would take a beating heart from a dying person to survive but not offer it upon their own death?

Saw an advert which triggered my post

[InOne]

I'm not on the register but I'd give anything after I die. I want to be cremated anyway.

[Miss Ivy Balls]

I wouldn't accept any part of another human to save my life. I'd rather die, but I wouldn't mind giving part of my body away after I'm dead.

It's not like I'm going to know it's being done.

[Patrick]

I'd take one from someone else but not give it back.

When I die I want all of me to remain in me when I'm cremated including my Balls, Heart, Lungs, Kidneys etc

Everything that was there from the beginning.

[Kerry]

I'm not on the register but I'd give anything after I die. I want to be cremated anyway.

I think most next of kin don't like the thought of their loved ones being 'chopped up' for body parts :/

[GypsyGoth]

Yep I'm a donor.

[Kerry]

I'd take one from someone else but not give it back.

When I die I want all of me to remain in me when I'm cremated including my Balls, Heart, Lungs, Kidneys etc

Everything that was there from the beginning.

And if any future kids you have need a kidney? (don't worry - you don't have to die to donate one of those)

[Patrick]

And if any future kids you have need a kidney? (don't worry - you don't have to die to donate one of those)

Oh I'd give one to them for sure, especially because I don't have to die to give a Kidney.

Infact I'd probably give a Kidney to anyone really if their lives were at stake and I could still live, I never knew Kidney's were needed to live until now. :shocked:

[InOne]

I think most next of kin don't like the thought of their loved ones being 'chopped up' for body parts :/

Well i'll get on the register then lol Not sure how well my insides are but we won;t go into that

[GypsyGoth]

I want to start giving blood too.

[Kerry]

Oh I'd give one to them for sure, especially because I don't have to die to give a Kidney.

Infact I'd probably give a Kidney to anyone really if their lives were at stake and I could still live, I never knew Kidney's were needed to live until now. :shocked:

They clean the blood. You can live without them but need weekly dialysis

[InOne]

I want to start giving blood too.

I only give to pure bloods. No mudbloods :nono:

[Miss Ivy Balls]

Patrick do you not find that taking one off someone, but not willing to offer it back as a bit selfish?

Fine if you don't want to offer your body once you're dead, but you'd happily take an organ off someone else?

Don't you think that seeing as you'd take one off a deceased person, you could offer that favour in return to someone else who potentially needs this vital organ?

[GypsyGoth]

I only give to pure bloods. No mudbloods :nono:

:laugh:

I'd love to be a mudblood :love:

[Kerry]

I want to start giving blood too.

I fall to pieces doing that yet found giving birth a doddle :joker: (well, it smarted a bit.......)

[InOne]

Every time I've ended up in hospital I've always had my blood taken, so used to that lol

[Kerry]

Every time I've ended up in hospital I've always had my blood taken, so used to that lol

Ugh I hate it. I actually begged my doc not to take any one time :joker:

[InOne]

Ugh I hate it. I actually begged my doc not to take any one time :joker:

I did refuse a few times. But if it's an attractive nurse I feel a div not getting is done. As stupid as that sounds :tongue:

[Kerry]

I did refuse a few times. But if it's an attractive nurse I feel a div not getting is done. As stupid as that sounds :tongue:

:D I'm just petrified of having blood taken. Had a bad experience as a teen. Never been the same. Odd as I'm fine with injections and stuff. Just no sucking blood!!!!!!!!! :joker:

[InOne]

:D I'm just petrified of having blood taken. Had a bad experience as a teen. Never been the same. Odd as I'm fine with injections and stuff. Just no sucking blood!!!!!!!!! :joker:

Cookie and a hug and it's sorted for me :D

[Kerry]

Cookie and a hug and it's sorted for me :D

I remeber my best mate, she went and gave blood. So brave. Passed right out in the newsagents :joker:

[Jordan.]

Im not going to lie but I would take one but not give one back. Just because of the fact I hate thinking about what happens with your body after you die its worse then actually dieing for me and I know id hate knowing im going to have my insides cut out. :(

EDIT: If it was to save a close family member whilst I was still alive id do it.

[Jordan.]

Patrick do you not find that taking one off someone, but not willing to offer it back as a bit selfish?

Fine if you don't want to offer your body once you're dead, but you'd happily take an organ off someone else?

Don't you think that seeing as you'd take one off a deceased person, you could offer that favour in return to someone else who potentially needs this vital organ?

Thomas you can't tell him what to do. Some people just aren't comfortable doing it and theres nothing wrong with that.

[zotler.]

I will become a donor when I am 18, I think you can become one at any age but I know my mum is too lazy to help me get registered, as I'd need her permission... Hopefully I do not die before then.
My body is totally useless to me if I'm dead, and I'm honestly not bothered as to whether I am buried or cremated soooo...

[joeysteele]

I think its down to personal choice,
Although many people against receiving an organ have changed their minds when told that if they don't have a transplant they will die in a matter of weeks.

I personally would have a transplant and also am happy for my organs to be used for others after my death.

I will not know what is happening and if I can help save a life by donation of organs to someone dying,then thinking of the joy that would bring to their families and friends who don't want to lose them is the only factor in it for me.

I can understand people being against it though.

However once we die, we are either going to decompose naturally if buried or be totally burned in cremation, for me, if before that process,I could save any life or even lives by Surgeons taking my organs then my life will have been well spent doing that.

[Stacey.]

I'd have it off someone but not give it back, no matter who it was.

[Lee.]

This is a somewhat personal subject for me...

Yeah, I would be more than happy to receive an organ if needed and even more happy to donate mineshould I die.

As many people as possible should be registered for organ donation. If you aren't, and want to be you can do it here;

http://organdonationscotland.org/nhs_organ_donor_register.html (Scotland)
http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/how_to_become_a_donor/how_to_become_a_donor.jsp

[joeysteele]

This is a somewhat personal subject for me...

Yeah, I would be more than happy to receive an organ if needed and even more happy to donate mineshould I die.

As many people as possible should be registered for organ donation. If you aren't, and want to be you can do it here;

http://organdonationscotland.org/nhs_organ_donor_register.html (Scotland)
http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/how_to_become_a_donor/how_to_become_a_donor.jsp

A personal one for me too Happyland, for a Family member who a transplant came just too late for when I was 14. That made my mind up for me on this issue.

[sooty]

This is a somewhat personal subject for me...

Yeah, I would be more than happy to receive an organ if needed and even more happy to donate mineshould I die.

As many people as possible should be registered for organ donation. If you aren't, and want to be you can do it here;

http://organdonationscotland.org/nhs_organ_donor_register.html (Scotland)
http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/how_to_become_a_donor/how_to_become_a_donor.jsp

I have just registered on line just in case.
I am a donor card carrier for quite years.

Long time ago, I was mugged in front of my front door. A boy snatched my bag and run away. But the night the boy came back, brought my donor card back!!! (He left the card in my bag, damaged. I noticed somebody was there because I heard a noise the night)

It would be grate comfort to me if I knew if I could help somebody that way.

[Marc]

I'm signing up for organ donation.
What use are mine when I'm gone? might as well give them to people who need it.

[MTVN]

I feel a bit weird about the whole thing tbh; both recieving an organ and donating one. It'd just be a bit strange to have someone elses inside of me and also to have the organs that have been a part of me my whole life just taken out and shoved in someone elses body.

I'd like to become a donor, I may well do it, but I would need to be sure first and the same with recieving one.

[Vicky.]

I'm already on the register.

Though I dont know if I would actually take an organ (given the choice)

And I would give anything to a member of my family while still alive too.

I also give blood and that...mostly because my dad had a horrible motorbike accident when I was very young and needed like 20 pints of blood, and I used to sit and think about if the hospital had had no blood at the time :/

[Jack_]

I suppose when I'm dead they can have what they like. Not while I'm alive though. Never. Only for very close family. And blood...ugh. Freaks me out.

[BB_Eye]

People can do what they like with me after I die. Well okay, I draw the line at necrophilia or getting exhumed.

But anyway, 300 years ago, it was common practice to bury people en masse in unmarked graves. I don't see the harm in that either.

[Miss Ivy Balls]

Thomas you can't tell him what to do. Some people just aren't comfortable doing it and theres nothing wrong with that.

I'm not telling him what to do, it's just you'd take one but not give it back.

[Boothy]

I feel a bit weird about it tbh, both giving and receiving.

I wouldn't take an organ from someone voluntarily, especially if I could survive without it. And in the same way, I wouldn't want to donate an organ, whether I be alive or dead.

However, if I did take an organ, for whatever reason, I'd definitely put myself on the donor register straight away. I also want to start giving blood too.

I do think that if people on the register should have priority over people not on the register when it comes to organ transplants too.

[Harry!]

I don't want any of my organs donated because if I come back to life in my coffin I want all organs to be intact. Also I wwould want all of my body with me in the after life.

[Shaun]

I don't want any of my organs donated because if I come back to life in my coffin I want all organs to be intact. Also I wwould want all of my body with me in the after life.

...afterlife and 'coming back to life in the coffin' aren't very credible arguments :tongue:

[Vicky.]

I don't want any of my organs donated because if I come back to life in my coffin I want all organs to be intact. Also I wwould want all of my body with me in the after life.

OMG thats one of my worst nightmares. Why would you even think about that? D:

Thats more reason to let them take parts of you out, so that you are SURE you are dead before being burried :eek:

[InOne]

OMG thats one of my worst nightmares. Why would you even think about that? D:

Thats more reason to let them take parts of you out, so that you are SURE you are dead before being burried :eek:

That scares me badly. too As to why I want to be burned lol

[Boothy]

That scares me badly. too As to why I want to be burned lol

This.

[InOne]

I got some words the wrong way round there. But still have not quite sobered up. People probably would'nt want my insides D:

[Grimnir]

i wanna be cryogenically frozen so no one gettin any of my organs :tongue:

[Tom]

I'm often the giver, I don't take that much.

Theres my sexual innuendo post for the day.

In all seriousness, I don't care what happens to me when I die. I don't need my body anymore, I think I accidentally ticked the organ donation box anyway when I signed up for my provisional. That plus my friends brother died waiting for a kidney, v sad when you see it first hand.

[Kazanne]

No preaching, but if you'd take a heart/lung/kidney(etc) to survive would you give it? How many are on the donor register? How many would take a beating heart from a dying person to survive but not offer it upon their own death?

Saw an advert which triggered my post

I'm on the donar list so hopefully if I die I can help others.

[Zippy]

they can have what they like of mine when I die. Ill be cremated anyways so they better get what they want before I burn baby burn.

[MeMyselfAndI]

I wouldn't give to anyone not even my mum. but i would take from anyone

[Kerry]

I wouldn't give to anyone not even my mum. but i would take from anyone

Nice of you

[Princess]

I have one of those organ donor cards somewhere. I don't understand people who wouldn't give their organs after death,not like they need them.

[Zippy]

I wouldn't give to anyone not even my mum. but i would take from anyone

how selfish! its no use to you when youre dead. It will just decompose.

[Kerry]

how selfish! its no use to you when youre dead. It will just decompose.

Maybe he/she would change his/her mind if the mother feels the same.....

[Zippy]

Maybe he/she would change his/her mind if the mother feels the same.....

we're not dealing with normal folk here.

[Kerry]

we're not dealing with normal folk here.

Oh I see

[MeMyselfAndI]

yeah but its mine

[Kerry]

yeah but its mine

You'd be happy if your mother didn't donate a kidney to you if you were dying I take it?

[MTVN]

yeah but its mine

So how are you happy to take someone elses organ, it's theirs after all.

[Princess]

yeah but its mine

What and you're going to miss it if you're dead?? I don't think you'll notice.