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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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So from today all adults in Wales will be automatically considered as consenting organ donors unless they "opt out." What's everyone's views on this?? I have been a registered organ donor and carried a card since I was 18 so it doesn't really make much of a difference to me. |
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over a year ago
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Same here, if any part of me any good to someone else when I die that helps them they can have it.
I know people have their own reasons ie religious but think it's a good idea |
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We think it is amazing!!!
We lost our son at 1 day old to a kidney disease and our other 6 year old son also has the same condition 
The amount of children and adults we have seen in the clinics just waiting for a kidney is heartbreaking, let alone milllions of others waiting for other organ donations.
There needs to be more people willing to donate. X |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm lucky enough to have had a kidney from a living donor (ex wife), but think it's a great idea as I've known loads of people struggling on donors lists. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This is a positve step in organ donation presumed consent, prior to this people relly discuss these morbid subjects and weren't coming forward to donate, of course you can still opt out, perhaps for religious reasons. at least it gets discussion aired.
can't have my d**k thats going for scientific research  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My liver and lungs be no use to anyone lol   "
Yeah same here  Saying that, i know a few guys that should definitely leave there bodies to science,no way should they still be alive lol. There quite welcome to anything they want tho. |
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I like it. I always were possible donate blood, i am on the bone marrow list if needed and i was already registered as an organ donor. Be nice to know if worst should happen a little bit of me lived on a little longer to ensure someone else gets to enjoy their life |
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I am absolutely committed to the idea of organ donation, having a four year old grand daughter who is still with us thanks to the wonderful gift of bone marrow from a brave but anonymous young man.
But I mourn the passing of the system where a person's organs are theirs to donate when they die to one where their organs are presumed to belong to the state to be taken.
I have opted out of the new system but left clear written instructions with my family that I wish to continue being a donor. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I am absolutely committed to the idea of organ donation, having a four year old grand daughter who is still with us thanks to the wonderful gift of bone marrow from a brave but anonymous young man.
But I mourn the passing of the system where a person's organs are theirs to donate when they die to one where their organs are presumed to belong to the state to be taken.
I have opted out of the new system but left clear written instructions with my family that I wish to continue being a donor. "
I understand exactly where you're coming from with this  |
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Ive been on the donor list sonce o was born!
My mother always taught us it was the right thing to do as she worked for a transplant department and always explained how it saves lives |
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Ive been on the donor list sonce o was born!
My mother always taught us it was the right thing to do as she worked for a transplant department and always explained how it saves lives |
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I understand what _callycat is saying, but at the point where you are able to donate your organs, there is absolutely no way you are able to make the decision to give them yourself - you'll be brain dead, if not on the verge of being cardiac dead.
I think the best part of the legislation is that it has brought the subject into the national consciousness - without it, I doubt we'd be discussing it on a swingers site, or anywhere else!
(doi - on organ donor register, been very involved in the process as a doctor) |
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I think it should be compulsory, no exceptions.
It's a morbid thought, but tough. If you don't need your bits but others desperately do its insane and utterly selfish to just burn them when it can save lives. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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This is my stance on organ donation:
When Im gone and no longer around
When you have buried my body deep in the ground
I hope you have listened to what I have said
My organs are really no use when I am dead
Take them all out, share them around
Shout from the rooftops A DONOR is found
My liver, my kidneys, my lungs and my heart
Just a few things to give someone a start
(if they can find any that still work that is lol)
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Well I feel like a prick now but religiously I'm keeping my bits and pieces. I think it would be fair to ban people who don't want to donate from receiving though. |
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I never really gave it much thought when I was younger but ten years ago someone very close to me had an accident that left him brain dead, I knew his wishes and had to fight his family for them to be carried out as he hadn't told them what he wanted since that day I've been on the register as I've seen the good it can do for someone, I'm still in contact with the one person who received a kidney from him, its given me comfort to no she has a better life because of what he did in death..mrs |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Not seen te small print but..... will the organs just be used in Wales or available to anyone in the world?
If not, who will pay for all the extra operations if they come to Wales for their transplants...
I have not opted out, if I don't need it, you can have it.... but we know the Welsh NHS is in a financial trouble. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The organs go into the uk transplant scheme, and may go to anyone in the UK, depending on clinical need and whether they're compatible.
The whole thing is funded by uk transplant (part of the nhs). The retrieval part is done by dedicated teams if surgeons who travel to your local hospital, then the recipient in dedicated transplant centres around the country.
The operation is very economical, as for example kidney dialysis is incredibly expensive, usually requiring 3 4 hour sessions a week for life. It also changes lives, freeing people from the need to spend all that time in hospital attached to a machine |
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That's mad, the advert literally just came on tv as I started writing.
I've been on the list since childhood. I can't understand for the life of me why people wouldn't be, but respect that each to his/her own. Just think it's such a beautiful, selfless last act of kindness |
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Totally agree. I dont care where in world my organs would go of they can help someone.
If you dont like the system of automatically being on the list then opt out of that and register privately as in the old method
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I'm a blood doner, I've donated bone marrow through the Anthony Nolan charity, I've carried a doner card for over 29 years.
Having worked in a hospital where the transplant team has been called in to retrieve organs I can say in my experience the level of respect and the care for the doner and their family is second to none!
The problem with the old system was apathy. The majority of people didn't discuss it with their families and when the crunch came that made it difficult for health care staff to broach organ donation with families and very difficult for families who were reeling from bad news to come to the right decision as they often did not know what their loved one wanted. The new system gets around this and if anyone feels that strongly against helping someone to live they still have he right to opt out.
Personally whilst I try to be non judgmental and appreciate other points of view. I think its scandalous that people are dying on waiting lists for want of an organ when what could have been perfectly good organs are being buried or burnt.
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