Do you have the right to say where your organs go?

 

Discuss.

No, I don't think so.

no. no need to discuss

if i had mine donated i would not complain if they went to bin laden

No, I don't think so.

 

Dying family?

No... I think once you say you donate your body that they do whatever they like with it

Dying family?

 

nah. people wait their turn. that's the way it goes. it would lead to people not donating and keeping hold just in case their family got ill

nah. people wait their turn. that's the way it goes. it would lead to people not donating and keeping hold just in case their family got ill

 

Agreed. that would destroy the purpose of donating. When you donate it, you give up your rights to it.

Exactly.

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IMO it depends. If you're going to donate a portion of your liver and you're not dying of course you can pick.

When you're dead it doesn't really matter.

 

edit: But, I'd love to die knowing that my organs ended in a legal, sterile place, not in black market.

Well, you don't get to pick and choose when you donate other things, like clothes or food, so why would you suddenly become picky with where your organs go? Yes, I know they're completely different, but I'm merely making a point. At any rate, I believe Christina summed up my opinion perfectly. The purpose of donating is that you willingly give up something of yours to someone else less fortunate than you. If you pick and choose what goes where, that's not necessarily donating, so much as giving something to a specific person. That in itself isn't bad, but it's not the same thing.

 

OK, so my thoughts came out in one jumbled mess. I'm sorry if that failed to make any sort of sense.

I'm gonna burrrnnnnnnnnn, bitches.

 

NO, not there! :whip:

Really, I just wanna be cremated.

I want to have all my organs donated to science/medicine... but if they have no use for it I want it to be flung into the Sun.

Im going my body to science, not medical but physics.

No... I think once you say you donate your body that they do whatever they like with it

 

+1

 

But I think if you're donating an organ and you're gonna live after that, you can say who you want to donate to. For example, donating a kidney or bone marrow.

Actually, now that you mention it, don't doctors usually ask the family to see if anyone has the same blood type as the sick person for this very reason? Like, don't they check the family first in that sort of situation, when you're alive and donating a kidney or something? :thinking:

Actually, now that you mention it, don't doctors usually ask the family to see if anyone has the same blood type as the sick person for this very reason? Like, don't they check the family first in that sort of situation, when you're alive and donating a kidney or something? :thinking:

 

I should think so. If lets say a family member has kidney problems, I'm sure they would ask the family members first. Then only to anonymous people. :confused:

No you can't say where and to whom your organs go. I know that in Europe we have Euro-transplant and basically you can get organs from all over the europe. If you are in UK and there is a organ in Italy and you're the best match you get it. Governments/hospitals have special planes which bring organs.