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Do you carry an organ donor card? If you don't- please explain why.

I haven't gone out of the house without my donor card for the last two years or so. I have personal reasons for it, but I consider organ donation in case of my death to be a moral obligation. After all, what use are your organs after you're dead? Isn't it better, more moral and more decent to give someone else a chance to live by donating your organs, then to proudly rot in your grave in one piece?

I have an organ donor card. I have a stipulation on it that states that they can have my organs ONLY when I'm done with them. Better to be safe than sorry. :)

I think post-mortem organ donation should be automatic, unless people choose to opt out and carry a special "I'm weirdly superstitious/amazingly selfish" card.

I think post-mortem organ donation should be automatic, unless people choose to opt out and carry a special "I'm weirdly superstitious/amazingly selfish" card.

We can print them on solid platinum four-leaf clovers. :D

my drivers license has the organ donor box checked. in the end they still have to ask your next of kin if they are willing to donate your organs. i guess once your dead its not really up to you anymore

i dont think we OWE anyone our body parts. i find it strangely offensive to suggest that there is such an obligation. at the same time i wouldnt hesitate to agree to the use of a dead loved ones organs to improve the life of someone else. after all the dead have no use for them.

I'm not going to answer yet, but does carrying a driver's liscense that says I'm an organ donor count? Or is there a specific card you're supposed to carry? Either way, my family knows I want all my organs given to people that need them and anything else researchers might want given to them. Unless you're ancient Egyptian, I can't think of any reason (other than physical incapabliity) not to be an organ donor.

On a side note, I actually got to scrub in on a liver transplant recently. It was one of the most awesome things I have ever seen.

Even if I WERE egyptian, it wouldn't be a bad thing. Coming back to life and hunting down the current possessors of my missing pieces could be fun. :D

I think post-mortem organ donation should be automatic, unless people choose to opt out and carry a special "I'm weirdly superstitious/amazingly selfish" card.
Add "or paranoid". My very own mother doesn't like the idea of me having a donor card because she is afraid that, if I were to end up in a hospital in a life-or-death situation, the doctors would have more interest in getting my organs than in stitching me back together :roll:

Oh, crap. I keep forgetting to get one. The UK has an opt-in system, rather than the far more sensible opt-out (based on the idea that people are lazy and will take the easiest option).

This gets me thinking... shouldn't the issue dealing with organ donation in the game make reference to such schemes? Yes. It should. Dangit.

A solid FOR from me.

My license has a place for me to sign off that I will donate my organs, though I havent done it yet. Ill probably check it off once Im 18, which is about 2 weeks from now.

I'm an organ donor, at least on my ID, and I'm all for it because when my mother died, some of her organs saved some people's lives.

Organ donor here, got it on my driver's liscense (I can never spell that word liscense, for some reason. It's one of those odd things,, even odder if I spelt it right)

I've got the card, but 'cause it's in my wallet, which I don't always carry, I don't always have it on me. My parents know my views about this, so I trust them to carry out my wishes if I die before them.
I don't need my organs after I leave this body, others will need them, so no question really.
Has anyone seen the Monty Python sketch in "Meaning of Life" about organ donation?

my drivers license has the organ donor box checked. in the end they still have to ask your next of kin if they are willing to donate your organs. i guess once your dead its not really up to you anymore.

This raises an interesting issue. If I had a card, I'd also insist on having my organs really taken outta me. I don't like the idea of one of my weird relatives using a veto just because they don't like it. It's my body and even after my death, noone but me should have the right to decide about it. I say, any right your kin might have on your body should be abolished. I bet it would increase the number of donated organs without increasing the number of registered donators, you know?

My old US ID had an organ donor stipulation on it. I am unsure how to go about getting one here in Japan (13 years of residence). And it has only been made legal in the past few years, and even then is still uncommon.

I don't have a donor card myself. But my parents both have them and if I suddenly snuffed it I'm sure they'd allow any organs to be used for donation (With any stuf that can't be used being given to medicine). I don't see why people have any objections to it. Because when you're dead you're no longer a person, just a slab of meat. Hell, I wouldn't care if the mortuary workers committed necrophillia!

. Hell, I wouldn't care if the mortuary workers committed necrophillia!

:shock:

Has anyone seen the Monty Python sketch in "Meaning of Life" about organ donation?

It's quite funny, but terrifying in real life.

Actually, in some places in Asia they drug you and steal an organ or two (lung or kidney, normally).

Oh, crap. I keep forgetting to get one. The UK has an opt-in system, rather than the far more sensible opt-out (based on the idea that people are lazy and will take the easiest option).

This gets me thinking... shouldn't the issue dealing with organ donation in the game make reference to such schemes? Yes. It should. Dangit.

A classmate of mine once said that he didn't want to be a donor, because he was terrified he might still be alive when they cut out the organs?

As for me? When I'm dead, I don't care what happens to my organs. So yes.