Are you an organ donor? Why or why not? For what?

Contributor: PiratePrincess PiratePrincess
I'd give anything up to help someone who needed it.
06/12/2011
Contributor: Retro Retro
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Originally posted by ~LaUr3n~
I would like to know if you are an organ donor. If you are not, what is your reason.

If you are, are their limitations to what you would donate?
I am an organ donor. If it is that time then I don't need them anymore. I plan on being cremated and I don't want an open casket anyway.
06/12/2011
Contributor: newfoundlust newfoundlust
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Originally posted by ~LaUr3n~
I would like to know if you are an organ donor. If you are not, what is your reason.

If you are, are their limitations to what you would donate?
We all need to help each other out. Why would I care what someone does with my parts after I kick. The important part of me is long gone. My only limitation is no donation of the body to medical cadaver research, just can't deal with the concept of some 24 year old medical student playing with my parts and laughing about it.
06/12/2011
Contributor: AndroAngel AndroAngel
I am not, because they do not work properly and wouldn't be of any use to anyone. (I have a connective tissue disorder.)

I do, however, donate blood.
09/18/2011
Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
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Originally posted by ~LaUr3n~
I would like to know if you are an organ donor. If you are not, what is your reason.

If you are, are their limitations to what you would donate?
They can use what they need...so long as I am REALLY gone. Make sure the EEG is working right, folks. THANK YOU. All I ask!!!
09/18/2011
Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
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Originally posted by Tori Rebel
I'm willing to give up anything for the simple reasoning that I'll no longer be needing any of it.
...and others may well live and benefit greatly from that loving gift of things "you don't need". We cannot forget that part!!!
09/18/2011
Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
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Originally posted by Lindz86
I hadn't thought much about donating organs, until recently...a friend of mine was shot and killed 7 months ago, and even though he was young, he had his organ donor card on him (here in Canada, or at least Ontario, I believe we get them with our ... more
So sorry to hear of your tragic loss, but obviously that friend WILL live on, in the lives he saved and the good they may do in the world. His life was thus like a ripple in a pond, with many waves yet to be created.
09/18/2011
Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
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Originally posted by Sir
I didn't know that, as an organ donor, it was up to you to "pick and choose." That seems sort of contradictory to the whole reasoning of being an organ donor. So yes, I am. My dad sort of got upset when I decided it, but I told him, ... more
It is better that people donate ANYTHING then nothing. Some folks are willing to donate INTERNAL organs..heart, liver, lung, but want to keep their "bodies appearance" intact (maybe for family viewing, whatever). SO..no "eyes" for instance. However, better to let folks choose and have them donate SOME vital organs, then not have the choice and leave nothing.
09/18/2011
Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
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Originally posted by P'Gell
Honey, no one is going to "stalk" you for your organs. They can't take them until you are brain dead. And, in most cases, it may need to be official, on your driver's license or a living will, just telling someone may not be enough ... more
WELL SAID, and VERY,VERY true. Thank you.
09/18/2011
Contributor: Ms. Spice Ms. Spice
I won't need lungs or whatever else I have when I'm dead, so why not give it to someone who needs it? we have a serious shortage in our country and I know I would be grateful if someone gave me an organ if I needed it, so I feel it's necessary to do the same for someone else
09/18/2011
Contributor: Ms. Spice Ms. Spice
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Originally posted by PussyGalore
Sorry this is incredibly off topic and I didn't click on the link but I wanted to say people who are skinny or underweight are just as sensitive to people making remarks about their weight as the obsese are.

It's a very good way to ... more
seriously. I have a body type similar to her and I don't starve myself.
09/18/2011
Contributor: Ansley Ansley
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Originally posted by AndroAngel
I am not, because they do not work properly and wouldn't be of any use to anyone. (I have a connective tissue disorder.)

I do, however, donate blood.
I can't donate blood. I don't weigh "enough". Whatever the fuck that means. I'm fairly certain, or at least I hope, that I could donate a pint of blood or less and be perfectly fine. What irritates me is that they won't even let me try, but I haven't seen a doctor yet that'll refuse to draw four vials of blood and then send me into metropolitan traffic during rush hour.

Priorities, America has them.

I am an organ donor. I'll probably be utterly useless and I might look into science donation. I think that'll be cool. If someone can learn from my death, so be it.
09/18/2011
Contributor: kellyg kellyg
I am a registered organ donor and everything is up for grabs. If I can help someone else sustain life by donating then it works out for everyone.
09/19/2011
Contributor: Love Perpetua Love Perpetua
I am an organ donor. I think it's pretty awesome that you can save lives after you die. I don't mind them taking anything; I'm going to be cremated anyway, so I don't really have to worry about open casket, etc.
09/19/2011
Contributor: Errant Venture Errant Venture
I'm not an organ donor simply because I've never gotten round to it. Besides, I'm not exactly living fast so I don't have a lot of opportunities to use it ...
09/19/2011
Contributor: MrWishyWashy MrWishyWashy
If I could save someone else's life, I feel that would be pretty cool.
09/19/2011
Contributor: Illumin8 Illumin8
I am an organ donor, as of recently.
09/20/2011
Contributor: emiliaa emiliaa
I am an organ donor, because, why not?
09/20/2011
Contributor: mcl272 mcl272
when i was a teenager & first got my license i choose not to be one. but, now that i've become a nurse my total perspective has changed! i've seen a few people that needed organs & there was none for them. i thought how horrible of a feeling that would be if that was any of my loved ones! you don't take your organs with you when you go, so i see no reason why someone would refuse to do this.
09/20/2011
Contributor: mizzmilla mizzmilla
Why not?
09/20/2011
Contributor: SaMiKaY SaMiKaY
I have been a donor since I got my first permit. I figure, if I am dead, I don't care if I still have my organs.

I would rather they be used by someone who needs them than rot along with me.
09/21/2011
Contributor: Mr. & Mrs. Peg Mr. & Mrs. Peg
I figure they can have whatever they can harness....as for what's left, I'd just as soon be donated to scientific research. Might as well do some good on my way out.
09/21/2011
Contributor: Peggi Peggi
I am an organ donor. I made the decision at age 16 than when I was legally able, I would register as one.

I chose that there are and are not limitations. I am willing to donate everything, from liver and heart to skin and eyes, and even my body and brain to science if anything is left over!

But...

I also have it as of late, that my family may choose to salvage the exterior of my body (inner organs NOT included) should they choose to have a viewing prior to my cremation.
10/12/2011
Contributor: Highmaintenancegirl916 Highmaintenancegirl916
I am,only because I will have no need for it. I love helping people so if they have use for it go for it.
02/19/2012
Contributor: Owl Identified Owl Identified
They can have it all as I won't be needing any of it. I'm registered as a donor. As far as whether or not others choose to do the same, I don't like that some people are so judgmental about people that choose not to donate. Their body, their choice. You don't have to like their choice or respect it, but I wish folks would stop acting like the world is entitled to your corpse once you die. The ways that we deal with death and regard the body postmortem are deeply personal, and no one has any business trying to persuade you to abandon your own values regarding them. I volunteer my skin, liver, heart, whatever is useful, but I would be pretty fucking upset if it ever stopped being a choice.
02/19/2012
Contributor: SexyRayne SexyRayne
If something happened to me and someone else could use a part of me to survive I would be more than happy for them to have my body part and use something I cant.
02/19/2012
Contributor: kz916 kz916
I am,the reason why is because. I could save a life or 2.
02/19/2012
Contributor: Beck Beck
I am a donor, also a regular blood donor. I want my organs to go on to help others if it is possible.
02/19/2012
Contributor: Stinkytofu10 Stinkytofu10
If I don't need it, someone else can have it!
02/20/2012
Contributor: indiglo indiglo
I am a universal donor (O-) so yes, I am an organ donor, with no limitations. Once I'm gone I won't need any of my parts, so if they can help someone else have a better, healthier, happier life - I say go for it!
02/20/2012