Are you an organ donor?

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  1. Are you an organ donor?

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Well, are you? :)

Specializes in Step-Down.

I think that organ donors are very special people and giving someone a second chance is truly a gift and a good deed.

I am not an organ donor due to my religious beliefs. However if it is an immediate medical emergency and I have an organ to spare such as a kidney then that is allowed. The Jewish religion believes that the soul is directly connected to the human body and that the deceased body is holy and cannot be desecrated.

Hopefully this article can shed some light on my point of view: http://www.aish.com/ci/sam/48936217.html

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Specializes in CVICU/SICU.

I was. Then I started working on a transplant unit. Unfortunately, I have learned that it isn't really about saving lives, and enhancing the quality of same. It's about money.

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Hi Lost,

As an organ recipient myself (heart), I'd have to disagree that it's only about making money. Because we're in a capitalistic society there is of course a monetary aspect, and a large one at that, attached to the issue. However, I'd submit that for the recipient and indeed for the donor or donor family, it most definitely IS about saving lives. Are there large costs associated with organ transplant? Definitely. Is organ transplant only about money? definitely not. no more than dialysis is, or any of the other myriad of medical treatments that are hugely expensive but save lives and enhance the quality of others.

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Specializes in CVICU/SICU.

I can understand why your view is what it is, and I'm glad that you were able to benefit from a transplant program. Sadly, I have seen and heard things that lead me to believe that in some cases, facilities are simply trafficking in human organs for profit. As you said, costs are associated with all treatments. However, profits for health systems are HUGE for organ transplants, especially lung and liver transplants. Another favorite, LVADs. I know there is some good being done, but most of my co-workers share my views (or I share theirs), because the majority of us are no longer donors.

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Profits are huge because we live in a capitalist society where health care is a business, just like Ford and VW are.

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Specializes in ER, CVICU, Rapid Response.
Well, are you? :)

I am! It is indicated on my DL, living will, and most importantly, my family knows my wishes :)

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Specializes in Trauma ICU, Peds ICU.

I'm not an organ donor because nothing I've heard has been able to sell me on the idea.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.

I'm not, and I don't feel like I owe anyone an explanation for my decision.

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I'm 17 and as soon as I turn 18 in August I am going to become an organ donor (: it's something I have always wanted to do and I think it is a very good thing.

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Of course -- it's noted on my driver's license, and I've made sure every member of my family knows that, if I'm ever in that situation, I want to donate any and every part that anyone else can use.

I couldn't have said it better, but I don't know if some of my family members would honor my wishes, including my husband :mad:

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Well, are you? :)

I was utell my mother died and after I left the hospital i found out they had taken her eyes not one person ever came and asked me ? I was told that they would not send my mother to morge and that they would just leave her in room untell the furnel home came. so I left and I want back to see my mother agan was told I that i could not because they had taken her eyes had she was now veary disfiged . I fully lost it at time .

the idea of someone cuting off my skin or my eyes is to much for me .

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Trauma and Psychiatry.
I can not definitively speak for the two who voted "no" as being organ donors, but perhaps they are not donors due to religious reasons or underlying medical conditions that would rule them out as donors.

I am not an organ doner but I do believe in organ donation and it is not because of religious reasons and it is not because I am afraid of dying. My problem is, it seems I get frightened by the question, it seems morbid like death is imminent (I don't know why) - the same thing happens when I ask patients the question on admission. How can I get over this; any sugesstions?

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