Brown backs donor debate

[Peter Venkman]

I always carry a Donor card and as Sonic says they can have everything they want from me witht he exception of my retinas, I dont know why thats my only problem with it!

When I am gone I dont need any of my bits any more so they are welcome to it.

I have also told my missus to tell them to take what they want if for any reason I do not have my card on me and shes the same.

[herthab]

I'm sorry, but if that cunt Aaron Brown thinks it's a good idea, then I'm against it............................

[Bushey Boy]

of course, people from ethnic backgrounds shouldnt be allowed to donate anything.
except penises for ash.

Your sister liked my size

[McLovin]

I'm a selfish bastard. I'd accept donated organs if i needed them, but i don't want to donate any of mine when i'm dead. I guess that makes me a bad person.

[Bogus Dave]

i dont see whats wrong with it. your dead, so what does it matter if they take out your liver to help save someone elses life?

[Barry Scott]

I'm on the register and everyone in my family knows my whole body is open for medical pillaging should i die.

I'm also on the bone marrow register, but am probably not anymore, as rather annoyingly, i'm not allowed to give blood. This is apparently because i have received blood after a certain time, and they're unable to check for some cjd related thing. :? Surely my blood is better than none?

I get annoyed by the lack of donors, probably not as much as Mex, because i don't need anything, but seems so silly to not let someone have something you don't need and can't use. And that includes blood.

[jayohaitchenn]

Opt out is the way of the future. Who gives a fuck what happens to your organs when you're dead?

Loads more organs would be made available and more people could be saved/have a better quality of life.

It's a complete no-brainer for me.

In a related note has anyone seen the media backlash for this? one TV station yesterday reported that "your organs will be taken with or without your consent!"

What a load of bollocks, you can opt out if you want to and if you don't the doctors still have to check with your family to make sure it's ok with them.

[flammableBen]

I watched Loose Women earlier. The crazy (more) right wing one was worried that they'd start harvesting your organs before you were dead. She even had some anecdotal story which she obviously considered to be the same as some hard core statistic of something which happens regularly.

Top telly.

[Barry Scott]

They harvest them in America, well criminal "doctors" do don't they? Or at least they used to such was the demand and money paid for organs.

[mattboyslim]

I listened to a radio programme when in new Zealand, talking about how prisoners in China were forced to give organs up (Kidneys most probably), and how the market for selling them was developing, seriously disturbing stuff.

Although there is a compelling argument for shorter prison sentances for those who sacrifice a Kidney.

[tans]

I watched Loose Women earlier. The crazy (more) right wing one was worried that they'd start harvesting your organs before you were dead. She even had some anecdotal story which she obviously considered to be the same as some hard core statistic of something which happens regularly.

Top telly.

Can be quite topical that programme. One of them is not that bad either i dont think

[flammableBen]

It's a bit daily mail sometimes. Mindless enough to have on in the background.

[Mexicano Rojo]

there is a man who sits in the same dialysis room as me, have known him 15/16 months, he has been on transplant list for that whole time, last month he travelled to india and bought a harvested kidney. he died one week after his return.

twat.

[Barry Scott]

Just to drag up the organ donor thing again and have a little rant...

Has anyone received a letter from the NHS recently to confirm, for the umpteenth time, that they're willing to be a donor? Bureaucracy is going to start costing lives soon - if it hasn't already of course.

Personally, I can't recall the number of times I registered, told my doctor, told family, registered on the website, held a donor card, etc, yet now, again they want me to fill in a form and post it to confirm I want to be a donor.

I hate red tape and this letter has made me angry. Very angry infact. Not because I can't be arsed to fill in a simple form and post it, but because this will, no doubt, chop the list of those willing to donate massively and all because some nothing-to-do, government tosspot feels in necessary to get permission. Again.

A family's word should be good enough for permission of whether or not to harvest an opinionless dead body of anything useful in my opinion. It should actually be opt-out, not opt-in I think anyway.

[leefer]

I dont agree with a compulsory scheme...if a person dosn't want to donate his/her organs so be it.
The problem with this country is that we lack common sense....it only needs the doctor to ask whether you consent or not....i mean we all go there......as for a child then ask the parents before death,not after that seems often to be the case.
I wish you all the best Mexico....for what it is worth i would donate an organ tomorow for you if could.....but i respect those who wish not to.