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I'd like to donate my brain to Martin's research.

Also, I have a pink sticker on my Driver's license indicating I'm an organ donor. If you sell a blue "Orbiter Brain Donor" sticker at the store I'll put it next to the pink one. It doesn't have to be labeled. I'll know what it means.

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You can always use a blue sticker crudely shaped liked the probe :)
And good choice regarding being an organ donor!
 
On a slightly more serious note...

Slovenia recently passed a law that says that anyone that hasn't said otherwise to their doctor is an organ donor by default. People welcomed the law. It seems that a lot of people would donate organs, but just don't remember to tell the doc.
 
i just hope it doesnt cause doctors to start saying "well i can let this patient die so i can save this other patient slightly easier". depends on the integrity of the doctors
 
All medical personell are under oath/contract to take care of patients to the best of their ability. When someone comes in as DOA (dead on arrival) all staff try their best to resuscitate them.

Even so there are not many people who are good donors when they die. Some things they consider before someone can be represented as an organ donor include; brain stem death, damage to the organ(s), medicines, diseases and viruses.

Not everyone is a good donor, for instance due to my medical history I cant donote even my blood.
 
Who needs a brain when they've got Orbiter? I think once an MFD is invented that can think for us, we should all donate our brains to science.

BTW, my new motto is "there's an MFD for that."
 
All medical personell are under oath/contract to take care of patients to the best of their ability. When someone comes in as DOA (dead on arrival) all staff try their best to resuscitate them.

If Slovenian doctors are anything in the slightest like bosnian doctors, such a law would probably mean that they'll let you die just because their wife told them to pick up some liver on the way home and they see a chance to avoid the 10-minutes detour to the butcher...

In bosnian hospitals, patients are generally considered a nuisance, and if they die sooner than later that's just as fine. Such a law here would mean a free pass for organ traders, so I hope noone gets the idea of establishing one. It's bad enough that you can't get an operation if you don't front up cash to the surgent personally, I wouldn't want to run the risk to wake up with half of my intestines removed... (then again, we currently don't even have a functional gouvernament that could establish such a law... there's a bright side to everything, I guess).
 
I'm quite fond of humming birds.

All medical personell are under oath/contract to take care of patients to the best of their ability. When someone comes in as DOA (dead on arrival) all staff try their best to resuscitate them.

Even so there are not many people who are good donors when they die. Some things they consider before someone can be represented as an organ donor include; brain stem death, damage to the organ(s), medicines, diseases and viruses.

Not everyone is a good donor, for instance due to my medical history I cant donote even my blood.

There's a lot I can't donate either. I'm going to go blind staying up all night squinting at this monitor. LG W2353V 1920x1080-32

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If Slovenian doctors are anything in the slightest like bosnian doctors, such a law would probably mean that they'll let you die just because their wife told them to pick up some liver on the way home and they see a chance to avoid the 10-minutes detour to the butcher...

In bosnian hospitals, patients are generally considered a nuisance, and if they die sooner than later that's just as fine. Such a law here would mean a free pass for organ traders, so I hope noone gets the idea of establishing one. It's bad enough that you can't get an operation if you don't front up cash to the surgent personally, I wouldn't want to run the risk to wake up with half of my intestines removed... (then again, we currently don't even have a functional gouvernament that could establish such a law... there's a bright side to everything, I guess).

Watching Chernobyl Heart broke mine. There's one scene where an American heart surgeon installs a patch on a young girl's heart, saving her life. The mother is so grateful it's very touching. The doctor himself chokes up. I give this documentary 5 out of 5 stars.

My Brain enjoys processing "starlings on Otmoor"

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Actually in Poland patient's family must aprove donation unless patient agrees when he's consious & know he's dying.

As for me in case of that event I have a plastic card whith statement that I agree to donate any organ in case of death. I'm also donating blood every 2 months.

As for rest of body on this donor card there is also stated that I'll donate my body to research or med teaching after all needed organs has been removed.

That way I'm sure that I'll be usefull even after my own death.
 
In my case, nobody gets my organs... nobody gets my bone marrow either, or my blood, or my reproductive material... or my body for lab experiments, dead or not.

That's just my personal choice, and I see no reason as to why I can't have it; out of the billions of people on Earth, there are sure enough willing to donate their organs to those that need them. I'm just not one of them. My body belongs to me, and as horrible as it sounds, I don't care about helping others, as sick or as unfortunate as they may be, by... being used as 'replacement parts'.

Maybe that's just because of my dislike of organ transplants in general, with the lifestyle impacts, the immune-system destroying drugs and soforth- sure, it's better than being dead (or at the least being very ill), but it's almost like... a lesser of two evils. It really makes actual, custom-made organs grown from stem cells or the like that much more attractive- now that might be a long way off, but we can already grow [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_urinary_bladder"]simpler organs[/ame], and even conducting biological repairs of damaged or failing organs could be massively helpful.

Until then, some sort of opt-out system would be a good idea, but only if the societal environment existed to deal with it properly; it is clearly ideal for a place such as Slovenia, but not in the Bosnian healthcare system described by jedidia, and probably not in countries such as South Africa or worse, where sadly most people only have a vague idea of what an organ transplant is.
 
If Slovenian doctors are anything in the slightest like bosnian doctors

They're not. And since we're on a universal coverage, everyone gets treatment without question and the system covers a wide variety of services.

Our medical system is mainly plagued by a shortage of doctors and nurses, but that doesn't mean they don't try everything to save people.

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That's just my personal choice, and I see no reason as to why I can't have it; out of the billions of people on Earth, there are sure enough willing to donate their organs to those that need them. I'm just not one of them. My body belongs to me, and as horrible as it sounds, I don't care about helping others, as sick or as unfortunate as they may be, by... being used as 'replacement parts'.

Not even to your immediate family? Parents, wife, children?



Until then, some sort of opt-out system would be a good idea, but only if the societal environment existed to deal with it properly; it is clearly ideal for a place such as Slovenia, but not in the Bosnian healthcare system described by jedidia, and probably not in countries such as South Africa or worse, where sadly most people only have a vague idea of what an organ transplant is.


We have an opt out system. Anyone who doesn't wish to be a donor just needs to tell their doctor. That gets written in the medical file and your organs belong to you even after death. The law just makes it so that anyone who hasn't said otherwise is a donor by default.

You'd be surprised to know how many people you can help from just one donor...
 
And since we're on a universal coverage, everyone gets treatment without question

technically, most Bosnians have universal coverage too... Just that implementation of any law is handled pretty sloppily unless it has the potential of putting money into the states purse (even most of the decisions of the constitutonal court don't get implemented within a decade). But I know of course that Slovenia is a lot further in social (and other) matters than Bosnia.
 
Not even to your immediate family? Parents, wife, children?

Oh... that depends on how much I like that particular family member. :facepalm: :uhh:

The likelihood of a family member badly needing an organ transplant and me conveniently dying is pretty low, anyway...

I certainly wouldn't want to live the rest of my life with one kidney or half a liver or whatever... I know that is a really evil thought, it would certainly depend on the situation, but it's definitely a "lesser of two evils" decision.

We have an opt out system. Anyone who doesn't wish to be a donor just needs to tell their doctor. That gets written in the medical file and your organs belong to you even after death. The law just makes it so that anyone who hasn't said otherwise is a donor by default.

My point is that it's not really fair to implement such a system if a good number of people don't understand it, and unfortunately in many places a good number of people don't understand it, because they haven't been educated about it.

You'd be surprised to know how many people you can help from just one donor...

That depends on how efficiently the donor can be used as a spare parts inventory... :P
 
I certainly wouldn't want to live the rest of my life with one kidney or half a liver or whatever... I know that is a really evil thought, it would certainly depend on the situation, but it's definitely a "lesser of two evils" decision.

I don't think it's evil. Every man should have right to make decisions about his body.

Also that is why I oficially anounced to my family that in case of some accident when there is no hope for me I don't want them to block organ transplants. I wouldn't use them anymore so why don't someone else would use them?

Also I think in case my kidney or halv of liver is needed when I'm alive I'd probably agree to donate such spare part. I know that living with one kidney is difficult but someday I may need a transplant...
 
I know that living with one kidney is difficult but someday I may need a transplant...

And your risk is higher if you only have one kidney. ;)

From what I've heard it's also quite an invasive procedure, the incision for kidney removal in the donor is larger than that in the recipient...
 
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My point is that it's not really fair to implement such a system if a good number of people don't understand it, and unfortunately in many places a good number of people don't understand it, because they haven't been educated about it.


It's a simple law, it was explained very well and it received a near universal support from the population according to polls.
 
You still don't get my point at all. That is Slovenia. I'm talking about the poorest backwaters of Africa (or... anywhere that is a poor backwater, really), where people are so under-educated about even the most fundamental things that it is truely horrible.
 
From Personal Experience...

I have two friends who have undergone kidney transplants and endured the hardship of dialysis. The lady friend when on to give birth to a daughter of her own. The Man friend is the best full court basketball player I know of outside of the NBA. Both live rich and fulfilling lives despite their personal hardships.
 
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