Fifty Bogus Reasons for Not Being a Registered Organ Donor

oldapeman

oldapeman

Rookie My A$$!
My friend's heart transplant (see my thread on that here: http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=410865 ) has affirmed my commitment to being a registered organ donor, and to recruiting the entire population of the world into doing the same.

BARFERS!!! BECOME A REGISTERED ORGAN DONOR NOW!

In order to gain interest, encourage Barfer participation, and dispel bogus thinking, I am hereby starting (for you Barfers to finish) a list of Fifty Bogus Reasons for Not Being a Registered Organ Donor. I will award a prize (consisting of the used left rear footpeg off a 1980 KZ750) to the best contribution. I am not eligible, since I am also trying to clear out my garage.

Here's the start of the list:

1. My body is a temple, and I do not want it defiled after I am gone. (You idiot, when you are dead you are not going to care one whit about your body -- you are dead unless you are a donor, then at least part of you will live on.

2. I am going to wait until the situation arises, then I will decide if I want to become a donor. (So, you are going to wait until you are dead to decide? Talk about procrastination!)

3. I will let my mother/father/wife/husband/children decide. (So you want to add to the burdens on your family during their time of grief? What a wonderful person you are!)

4. It is icky/It might hurt/It gives me the willies. (Still having difficulty accepting your mortality, huh? Dead means Dead -- no perception, no feelings -- get over it now.)

5. I am a selfish SOB, and do not want to share. (While this might in fact be the only valid reason, it is still a bad reason, and you are a morally corrupt person who must be held up for ridicule and shame.)

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SO BARFERS, ASK TO INSPECT THE CDL OF THE NEXT HOT NUMBER YOU MEET AT THE CLUB, AND SEE IF HE/SHE/IT HAS A PINK DOT WITH THE WORD "DONOR" ACROSS IT. IF THEY DO, AND YOU DO TOO, IT IS A MATCH AND YOU GET TO GO HOME WITH THEM ON THE FIRST DATE!

[mods: If this is in the wrong forum, please move it somewhere sunny and warm.]
 
aszrael1266

aszrael1266

Resident Squid
I have always had this unfounded fear that if I was a donor they wouldn't try as hard to keep me alive so they can get my organs. I know that's not the case.
 
TwistedBuddha

TwistedBuddha

Single-track mind
aszrael1266 said:
I have always had this unfounded fear that if I was a donor they wouldn't try as hard to keep me alive so they can get my organs. I know that's not the case.
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Maybe not. I am a donor - signed up when I got my license - but I read an article that gave me second thoughts.

"The harvest proceeded over the objections of the anesthesiologist, who saw the donor move, and then react to the scalpel with hypertension."

<shudder>
 
kiltwearinfool

kiltwearinfool

do not read this title
Please address the argument that there is preferential treatment for affluent or well-known persons on the waiting list. I am trying to find documented cases a little more recent than Micky Mantle.
 
gixxerjeff

gixxerjeff

Dogs best friend
"Take my organ, take my soul. No photos of me either please"

(I am a registered donor. I just want that footpeg)
 
PorradaVFR

PorradaVFR

The Temptations of Christ
TwistedBuddha said:
Maybe not. I am a donor - signed up when I got my license - but I read an article that gave me second thoughts.

"The harvest proceeded over the objections of the anesthesiologist, who saw the donor move, and then react to the scalpel with hypertension."

<shudder>
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If you're even being considered for donation you would likely have suffered head trauma, loss of circulation or have brain damage that yes may still show reflexive response to pain stimulus...but I sure as hell would not want the "life" that may result by treatment versus an honorable death helping others.

Some may see being bedridden as better than death...I don't.
 
oldapeman

oldapeman

Rookie My A$$!
To respond to a few comments:

The most informative discussion on the web about organ donation in the US is on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation#United_States

Harvesting and distribution of organs is very highly regulated, and is done in a blind (no identity) fashion, so favoritism based upon fame or wealth is functionally impossible. The Wall Street Journal article cited above has been roundly critiqued by many highly qualified people, and with most criticizing its lack of factual accuracy and objectivity. (Also, please remember that the WSJ shares ownership with FOX News. Your opinion of the objectivity of the WSJ likely corresponds with your opinion of the objectivity of FOX News -- form your own opinion on that.)

The question about allocation of medical resources is valid. However, are you suggesting that someone who has coverage for this through their private health plan, or otherwise, should not be able to have it done? That makes no sense. What truly makes most sense is that we figure out ways to both treat "sick kids" and do organ transplants. In fact, many transplants go to children.

Banjoboy, I love that Monty Python skit.

To those who choose to not to be a donor, that is your right. I do will not pretend to understand your reasoning, but I for one will not express on this site my judgment of you on that basis. Others may. You might not care.

Come on people, give it up, be a donor.
 
Mr Pepsi

Mr Pepsi

Mr Pepsi (Brent)
As I said in the other thread, I am an organ donor and recently I signed up to be a bone marrow transplant donator.
The test is free, painless, and may just some day save a life, and you don't even have to die to save someone.
www.marrow.org
 
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