Are you an organ donor?

**Samurai Waki** · 11-05-2009, 10:58

As long as they don't take General Patton, they can have whatever they want when I'm dead.

**Hax** · 11-05-2009, 14:00

Where do I sign up? ;D

I want to be cremated after my death anyway, so I won't need my intestines.

**Monk** · 11-05-2009, 22:35

Yes because i was half asleep when i got my license, and said "Sure" out of want to get it done so i could go home and go back to sleep. Haven't seen a reason to reverse that decision.

**drone** · 11-05-2009, 22:38

I plan on donating my organs the old fashioned way, by getting drunk and waking up in a bathtub full of ice.

**miotas** · 11-07-2009, 10:43

Ha ha, I checked XKCD today and lookie what I seen http://xkcd.com/659/

**Strike For The South** · 11-07-2009, 17:48

Yea. My brother has the "Beetus (juve kind not the fat kind) So our kidneys have to be ready at a moments notice.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 11-08-2009, 17:49

Not only I am a donor when I signed up to get my license, but I also plan on donating my body to science. As a firm atheist I see no other better way. Hopefully I will not change as I mature.

BTW, is there any way to auction off your dead body parts? I read that our fresh bodies can be worth anywhere close to half a million if not much more, due to the sheer amount of things they harvest nowadays, considering just how much today's surgeons can transplant. So, it would be nice if say, my relatives got all that.

On the other hand, I may not want to do it, lest they get too happy when I die

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**Viking** · 11-08-2009, 19:20

Not that I know of.

**Centurion1** · 11-09-2009, 03:04

yea i donate why not. I dont care if youre an atheist or whatever your body is just a corporeal shell. Im not going to need it. Id rather not have my body dissected by medical students but whatever im going to be kind to people and get cremated anyway (burial is overrated and selfish to take up ground like that which could be vital for something to be built on in the future)

**Andres** · 11-09-2009, 13:41

Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

BTW, is there any way to auction off your dead body parts? I read that our fresh bodies can be worth anywhere close to half a million if not much more, due to the sheer amount of things they harvest nowadays, considering just how much today's surgeons can transplant. So, it would be nice if say, my relatives got all that.

Not in Europe:

Article 12 Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on setting standards of quality and safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human tissues and cells

Principles governing tissue and cell donation
1. Member States shall endeavour to ensure voluntary and unpaid donations of tissues and cells.
Donors may receive compensation, which is strictly limited to making good the expenses and inconveniences related to the donation. In that case, Member States define the conditions under which compensation may be granted.
Member States shall report to the Commission on these measures before 7 April 2006 and thereafter every three years. On the basis of these reports the Commission shall inform the European Parliament and the Council of any necessary further measures it intends to take at Community level.
2. Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that any promotion and publicity activities in support of the donation of human tissues and cells comply with guidelines or legislative provisions laid down by the Member States. Such guidelines or legislative provisions shall include appropriate restrictions or prohibitions on advertising the need for, or availability of, human tissues and cells with a view to offering or seeking financial gain or comparable advantage.
Member States shall endeavour to ensure that the procurement of tissues and cells as such is carried out on a non-profit basis.

But then again, why would you want to make money out of it?