Organ donation

[rory_20_uk]

American doctors get paid by the treatment, not treating. Veggies are ideal patients - little hastle, and can keep a bed for sometimes years. Oh, and require frequent scans, ECGs, blood tests etc etc just in case...

[Duke John]

Perhaps interesting to discuss: should people who do not want to donate their own organs have the right to receive organs? Or is this already included when they have a note that they are not a organ donor?

[doc_bean]

Perhaps interesting to discuss: should people who do not want to donate their own organs have the right to receive organs? Or is this already included when they have a note that they are not a organ donor?

Well, it wouldn't be really ethical for a society imho. That said, **** em, if you're not willing to part with your organs when your dead, you shouldn't expect someone else to do that for you.

Besides, I don't think any hospital here pays much attention to this 'card', when they get fresh meat and need to be quick to harvest, they're not going to wait for clearance...

[scooter_the_shooter]

Well, it wouldn't be really ethical for a society imho. That said, **** em, if you're not willing to part with your organs when your dead, you shouldn't expect someone else to do that for you.

I might consider it if I knew who would get it, but am not giving my kidneys to a stranger.

[orangat]

Perhaps interesting to discuss: should people who do not want to donate their own organs have the right to receive organs? Or is this already included when they have a note that they are not a organ donor?

They probably deserve a lower priority but cadaver bodyparts are also used in procedures for cosmetic reasons (eg. cosmetic augmentations). Should those recipients be bone/tissue donors as well?

[Duke John]

Yes, if you want a pretty face when the only thing left for you to do is lying in a coffin to rot, then you shouldn't be expect another person to make that "sacrifice" for you.

Of course that might result in people changing their donor status just before the operation, but at least it gives the right signal; society is not a one way system.