Anyone an organ donor? If not you may be soon.

[owdamer]

Not content with taxing every last penny from you Mr Brown now wants your body parts.......
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7183559.stm

[Hetzer]

"This 12k-a-year prol is borderline, let's switch him off and grab everything..."

"This rich/powerful/famous person is borderline, let's do everything we can to save him..."
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[owdamer]

[Paivi]

Meanwhile at the bedside of a seriously ill patient.

Patient:, "So, I've only got weeks to live?"

Specialist:, "Yes. We could save your life if we had a donor organ, but unfortunately not enough are being donated, as people haven't signed up for it, and their families refuse for sentimental reasons. Hope you've got a funeral plan..."

Details on how to become a donor are here.
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[owdamer]

[syl]

[owdamer]

[JonB]

And why the fuck not? Your body is useless as a cold rotting mess in a coffin, why not make someone's day.

Some people are bloody stupid and short-sighted when it comes to death, there is 1% chance there is some sort of afterlife, in fact the odds are probably even less, why are people still clinging onto hope?

They can have any part of my body they like and I have informed all love ones this is what I want, so if they refuse and there is an afterlife, i'll haunt them for the rest of my life.
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[owdamer]

[Itchy]

[h00dwink]

I'm a Donor. Have been registered for about 5 or 6 years now. The bits aren't going to be doing anything for me when i'm gone. I feel strongly that i'd like to do something honorable like that after death.

Also, Hospitals aren't entirely like they seem to have been described here. Making out as if there's not Hypocratic oath is particularly weird. That it'd be easier for "them" to let you die so "they" can harvest your body to reach thier doned parts target...
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[SoND]

[JonB]

[cestrian]

Our ten year old nearly died when she was just 15 months old and on life support. My wife was approached by hospital staff and was asked "would you consider organ donation? She has beautiful eyes and the mortician would make a lovely job, you'ld never know". My wife replied, "she not dead, go away". Those words still haunt my wife to this day.
The exposure of Alder Heys organ scandal a few years later proves the NHS's (or governments) willingness to completely disregard the thoughts, wishes and feelings of patients and their families. To them you are just a piece of meat with a number.

I sincerely believe that hospital staff will make less effort to keep people alive in order to harvest body parts for transplants. I wouldn't be surprised if the government quietly introduced financial incentives or targets in order to facilitate more transplants. Perhaps a bit like the social services being paid to remove children from their homes.

Regards

[SoND]

[craigie b]

Ah, Jon B, so much life experience still to obtain

[JonB]

[cestrian]

I can see it now....

A man is brought into A&E after an RTA. Amongst other things he has suffered a corneal injury in a car accident, some debris hit one of his eyes.
Minutes later another crash victim takes his last breath upon entering A&E. Hospital staff cannot find his opt-out card, in desperation and fuelled by financial incentive, they decide to take a cornea from him to help the other guy.
Later in the day, a woman (a nurse actually) arrives at the hospital holding the dead guys opt-out card. The hospital refuses to let her see her grandfathers dead body for fear of court action.

Of course this situation may never occur as the hospital will be able to scan the dead body for the biometric info chip which was implanted by force some years earlier.

On the other hand, this story will probably take the heat off Peter Hain just long enough for the media to forget about his crimes.

[JonB]

[cestrian]

[JonB]

[TheShaggyDA]

[owdamer]

[JonB]

You seem to have a complete lack of trust in human beings which is sad, but I don't think your typical doctor is going to be Harold Shipman and let you die for someone else, it is counter productive, cause you still lose one life.

I put my faith in doctors that they will do their upmost to save a casualty, to think otherwise is bordering on the slightly mad.
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[cestrian]

"Rather that than a deluded, racist establishment" - Jon B

The education system responsible for my education was slightly less deluded and perhaps slightly less racist.