I’m volunteer to donate because of I accidentally die, rather that it deserve someone who would have more luck than me rather than no one.
Now in Belgium it works a bit differently. Everyone is, by default, considered as a donor.
You can then register to either refuse it or to impose it whatever your family says.
This is because the law is that the doctors must always ask the family if they are ok to give organs from diseased family member even with the “by default donor”, with the registration you can say “don’t ask my family and just do it”.
This can be used in two situation in my opinion, the first one being family that have different conviction and may refuse despite the opinion of the diseased. The second situation (mine) being not wanting to worry grieving family with one more difficult decision to take.
Yes. My state makes it really easy, just check a box when renewing your ID or driver’s license. I can only hope if I lost my life I could give a new lease on life to someone else.
Yes however, I’m torn between either donating my organs or donating my body to science.
My thinking is I could maybe help save a couple of lives if my organs are in a decent enough state, although with my life style they probably wont be, or maybe my body could be used as a cadaver to train new doctors possibly saving a lot more lives.
Even if its not used for training doctors my thinking is that even a small amount learnt from the use of my body has got to help somewhere.
I would highly recommend donating to a specific organization rather than as a “uniform anatomical gift”. Unless you’re fine with being sold by a body broker and used for explosives/crash testing, or forensic entomological decomposition research: cbsnews.com/…/bodies-donated-to-science-largely-u…
Yeah but I wasn’t for a long time. There was a spiderman cartoon where mary jane was targeted for murder because her name was in a database of organ donors and the villain needed her organs for his wife or something. scared the shit out of me when I was a kid and I had a knee jerk reaction when filling out the form I never really thought about. someone had to directly ask me before I realized I had based this decision on a cartoon I saw when I was 5.
I’m registered to donate, they won’t take them unless I get an expensive genetic test. My brother just passed away, and they wouldn’t let him donate anything because we had an aunt a couple of generations ago who had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (a prion disease that causes dementia)
I like the system in Singapore. Organ donation is mandatory, though you can complete a form to opt out. If you’re on the opt-out register, you have a lower priority to receive organ transplants. Fair is fair.
I feel like Singapore should be the gold standard of how to do most things that don’t involve the justice system or surveillance. They seem to do most things right. Or maybe I’m just getting a golden picture? Lol
This is often seen as a positive measure as well, because it reduces the risk of bribery and other sorts of corruption. One wouldn’t risk an already great income for a chance to get a little extra.
I think there are examples of it working, and examples of it not. Singapore’s system works as intended, but here’s a list of yearly salaries for high-paid heads of state >$500,000 USD (sources from Wikipedia). Draw your own conclusions.
Cameroon President: $620,000
Denmark Queen: $11,000,000
Hong Kong Chief Executive: $568,000
Japan Emperor: $3,000,000
Jordan King: $848,000
Kuwait Emir: $165,000,000
Luxembourg Grand Duke: $12,000,000
Norway King: $33,000,000
Oman Sultan: $7,000,000 (could be a very old number)
Qatar Emir: $33,000,000
Saudi Arabia King: $9,600,000,000 ($9.6 billion)
Singapore President: $1,400,000
Singapore Prime Minister: $1,600,000
Switzerland President: $507,000
Syria President: $576,000
Tonga King $2,100,000
United Arab Emirates President: $4,600,000,000 ($4.6 billion)
My mom got double brain aneurism. Had her head cut open to put clamps on the leaking arteries.
Slipped into a coma, few days later doctor came in to convince us for prepping her for organ donor, dad said it was too early.
Another few days later doctors came in being really rude that all she was good for was organ donor. Had a heated conversation with my dad who got tired and said “fck off doctors”.
Few days later she woke up. After revalidation she has a healthy life, this was 37yrs ago, she still lives, she is 71.
My dad told my awake mum and since I was underaged opted me out for organ donor. Needles to say, I am reluctant to opt myself back in.
Optional read: aftermath of the aneurism is that the part of the brain to process visual data was damaged. Other parts of her brain took that role but is not as effective. Her depth perception any further that 10m is gone. She has no vertical peripheral processing, so she has to tilt her head up or down to recognize what she noticed i’ her peripheral, one cannot imagine this seeing something but unable to recognize until you point your head at it :) in the end, very good outcome.
Damn that’s double fucked. What a disappointing story. I’ve still got myself down for organ donation because it’s more likely to be done in good will than not, but that’s a very sad story.
Do people pay for organ transplants where you are? I wonder if it’s not necessarily altruism but money that is pushing the doctor’s hand to jump the gun.
No people do not pay, it is a national waiting list of first come first go. I live in Belgium, mom’s doctors were from France (specialists). We are supposed to be at the top of free and good health care. So this did not happen in some back lawsless country. (don’t mean this patronizing)
Plus, they’re pretty notoriously well off at this point. If I’m gonna donate I prefer to go with the internet archive, since they actually need the help.
Maybe they’ve changed because I donate and also contribute as an editor, and checking my email, I’ve only received one email* from them all year, and that was on January 6th titled “A record of your support for Wikipedia” from the Wikimedia Foundation, and it was a thanks and a tax receipt.
Maybe there’s a consent checkbox somewhere that I don’t remember unchecking.
*not counting notifications received in my role as contributor.
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