Everyone that is so against it would you accept an organ transplant for your children or yourself? I am a donor and have been since I turned 16. My aunt died last year and her corneas was donated to two separate people, her liver saved a 19 yr old girl and her lungs went to two men. That is 5 people who have a chance at life now. Btw they tried to save her life as she had a heart attack and they just couldn't. My friends baby was murdered a few years back and when he was shot he didn't pass right away and so she was able to donate his organs now several children are alive because of Ryker. His life meant something even after his dad took it. I personally have had

to receive donated tissue due to torn ligaments several times as I have a birth defect that causes my tendons to tear easily if people had not donated them I would have no use of my arms or been able to walk since I was 16.

@corrine I was in a level 1 trauma ER for a month and not one moment have I ever seen any nurse or physician ask if the patient was an organ donor. They only asked for the patients ID for identification purposes and to see if they were in the EMR. Now if the patient is DOA that may be a different story

Are any of these horror stories from Canada? I wonder if it is mostly a problem in countries where medical care is paid for. I am a donor. I am not spiritual or religious and if I am brain dead I want my organs to go to use and my body cremated. I work with disabled people and hope I never end up dependant on others in the way that would be required after recovering from severe brain damage. I have worked with people who have survived and slowly learned skills again. But that is not a life I want.

I work in health care and have worked in a trauma/surgical ICU at a Level 1 trauma center...we try to save EVERYONE. No one even knows if the patient/person is an organ donor, there is criteria that is followed to call the states organ donation center and that's it.

Also, donating organs is different from donating your BODY to science. When you are an organ donor, you won't end up in a medical lab

There is something f*** ed up with your medical services if in an emergency they'll check your id to see if your a donor. And if you are, they dont try as hard to save you.

There's actually a LOT of controversy & suspected corruption within the whole donor world.

Hospitals that have shut out families/parents to push for calling a patient so they could harvest & such.

I honestly haven't looked too deep into it (bc I ain't got time for that) but some of the brief things I've seen have seriously made me question it.

I'm not against live donation (e.g. Kidney or partial liver) but don't think I would opt for being a donor upon death or agree to it for my kids.

I actually heard the same as cici from someone that was really close to an organ donor that if anything happens to you they won't try to resuscitate you when you're an organ donor..I'm a current organ donor but when I heard that it freaked me out

Bring an organ donor is a selfless thing however just because you are not that doesn't make you selfish like others have said... I see valid points on both ends of the argument which leaves me conflicted. I'm going to do more research and then make my decision.

I am and always have been an organ donor.

I'm an organ donor. I won't be using this body anymore once I'm gone. This may sound super sh*tty of me but if you aren't an organ donor, you shouldn't get a donated organ either (I saw the other post).

I am a donor. If, god forbid, something we're to happen to my son, I would donate his organs too. There is no pain like a mother losing her child. Why wouldn't I do every single thing in my power to prevent it from happening to others? And honestly, I'm not worried about the people in my life receiving a phone call with terrible news. They know my wishes, and I know how they will grieve. As for the "they don't try to save you crowd" it's an urban legend, perpetuated by people who either don't work in medicine, or don't understand the science behind when or why a doctor would "give up" saving a person.

I am a donor. I doubt I'll ever actively save someones life so I may as well save a few by donating my organs.

As some have already said I feel like if I am border line they might not try as hard to save me.

No I'm not. I watched first hand my best friend die because they saw she was a donor. She could've lived.. But they didn't try to save her once they knew she was a donor. And they were very cold about it. Still disgusted to this day.

I am. And I hope I can save a life one day. The "they don't try as hard to save you" seems ridiculous to me.

I am a donor and proud of it and encourage people to think about being one. My dad actually just had a heart transplant in January and we are so thankful that person whose heart it was choose to be a donor they saved my dads life ❤

My sister's hubby is an emt and works in the er too! He said they don't try as hard on organ donors to save them because the hospital xan make upwards of $500,000 on an organ waiting patient. That's why I won't do it.

Someone asked if anyone who is not an organ donor if they would have a transplant if needed. No I would not want that. Again due to religious beliefs.

They don't try as hard to save you.

I'm not

I used to be an organ donor. I think it's a great thing...as long as it's done fairly. I stopped signing up for it many years ago when an older Senator from our state moved to the front of the donation line ahead of people that had been on the list longer and were way sicker. It rubbed me wrong, like he had only gotten the organ because he was a rich politician. I stopped saying yes after that happened. Though if it was possible I would want to see my organs donated and I would donate family member's organs if the opportunity arose.

Idk why but I've always rotated every other time I renew my license I do or don't .. like I said idk why my SO says I'm a weirdo .

In a perfect world, they'd do everything to save you. Truth is sometimes they don't. Sometimes people come back from being "brain dead". Whatever my family is comfortable with after I'm gone is what I'm okay with.

I am an organ donor and have never thought twice about it. If I were going to die I'd want to save someone else and spare their family pain. However, I don't want my eyes or skin donated. I don't judge people who chose not to be though. It's a serious decision and I respect that some people have off feelings about it. No one should feel forced or pressured to do something with their body that they don't want to..

That's not true. They will do absolutely everything to save u. And nobody even looks at ID in a code or critical situation like that.

They will still ask your family the time of your death do u want to donate your organs so putting it on your ID doesn't matter but I did hear that if you are in a situation where u die & there's a possibility of being you back they will not try if they see ur a organ donor on your id

I want to donate mine (if I ever die in that kind of circumstance, hopefully not!)... and I'd want any of my family to be one too. It's an amazing gift of life that can come out of an untimely death. Don't see the point in 'stating intact'!

Idk we are organizing donors. If you can help someone else that is an amazing thing. When my daughter 17 got her license last year she said she wanted to be a organ donor and asked me to sign off on it. I didn't even think twice.

I just got a new drivers license because I moved states and for the first time I checked yes to being an organ donor. I never did it before and I don't really know why

Me too, mamachey ?

My dad died when i was 7, and ill always remember meeting the man who got parts of my dad's eyes. He was so grateful, that he paid for all of my moms debt from losing dad (we were piss poor, and dad didnt have any life insurance, both parents could only get part time jobs because they couldnt afford child care for me) and put down a initial deposit down in a college savings fund for my baby brother which mom was only a few months from having.

Its never a question for me, i always say yes.

I'm not. I've never really thought about it. So now it's something I will have to think over. I used to be scared of the idea as a child.

My husband isn't. He was raised Jehovah's Witness so he has been adamant for years he doesn't want his body touched nor given blood, but since having our kids he seems to have become a bit more open about these kinds of things.

I'm so glad organ donation isn't a business here, as it's made out to be there by the comments.

I am a donor, I signed up the day I applied for my license. My daughter (19 month old) is also a donor.

My friend lost a daughter at 14 month old due to CHD, unfortunately another child would have to die for hers to live as she needed a new heart. As much as it's heartbreaking to lose a child, I'd want my daughter to bring some good to someone else. Every cloud has a silver lining and all that.

I'm not an organ donor in my license but my family and my husband know that if I was on life support that my organs can be donated. I need to have a will written up for the two of us and that will be something that's written down

I am an organ donor what do I need them for if I'm dead? And doctors have to treat each life equally, so just because you're an organ donor does not mean they're gonna say "oh well might as well let them die" for religious reasons I understand not donating, but just because you saw something on the tv? Come on now that's like believing everything you read on the internet ?

I had a baby cousin who passed away this past Oct he was super healthy and young...

the hospital kept hounding his mom for his organs

He had a head injury

They literally asked 5 times in a day for his organs instead of trying to do the best to save him

Organs especially healthy ones are pretty much a business

Big money for the hospital

I heard it's not a good thing to say organ donor because the hospital will want to make money on them first before doing the best to save person when they see organ donor on system or ID card

I vote no to having organ donor on license and if the person/guardian/spouse chooses so after all attempts to save have been exhausted then yes by all means have the organs

I'm an organ donor, I watched the hospital try for a week to figure out if my boys dad could be saved. Unfortunately he was brain dead but everyone was very respectful, the coordinator was even coming outside with his family to have a smoke.

Knowing that he helped the lives of 3-4 people was amazing. Yes it was hard that he was taken a few minutes after he passed but we all had our time with him before the plug was pulled so we could say our goodbyes.

Fun fact, just because your a registered organ donor doesn't mean you'll be donating, it all has to do with the manner in which you passed as its time sensitive and even if youre registered your family can still say no and the hospital can't do anything.

I am an organ donor and so is my husband. I believe it's selfish not to be a donor (unless it's a religious thing).

I agree with pp's comment.. if you aren't an organ donor, are you against receiving an organ if your life depends on it?

I am not a donor and neither is my husband and we don't wish to be.

I'm a donor. If my organs are good to save someone else's life, why not?

I know if your a donor some organizations, I believe lifebank is one where they don't just take your organs. It's Whatever organization the license bureaus use. They can utilize any part of your body because you donated it to science.

A friends aunt passed away and was a donor. Needless to say her aunt didn't look pretty during viewing at the funeral home, because of everything they took from her body.

Do research into different donor organizations and put them in your living will. If you die by law they have to donate your body to the stated organization.

For those saying no to donating their organs I also presume you'd say no to receiving organs should you need transplant?

I think everyone should decide & have their decision recorded to save the doctors having to ask family shortly after your death. Save them the decision!

In UK Wales they now have presumed consent. Meaning if you don't want to donate you have to opt out. If you do nothing you are automatically in for organ donation.

I like that.

I'm an organ donor and so is everyone in my family. We have several ppl with transplants so it's something that is close to my heart. I think it's amazing that when I pass I, hopefully will be able to save some ppl. What a great way to leave this earth. Hopefully this isn't for a long time but I won't be using the organs when it does happen.

I've been told multiple times that if you get into a bad accident or whatever the case might be, and they think you might have a chance, they will pull the plug to use your organs. I've always been told that. I just choose not to be an organ donor I don't know I'm ignorant on this topic.

@pp there are rules about addicts. They have to be clean for x amount of time

@beauty I'm not saying that one life is more important than another at all. I AM saying I have an issue with an addict receiving a new organ to go back and ruin the new one by not using their new chance at life and putting their addiction first. There alone lays my issue.

I know a family whose three year old just received a heart transplant. He will now be able to live a longer and better quality of life all because of an organ donor. If my child were in that situation, I'd be forever grateful for the gift that is organ donation. I am an organ donor and have made it very clear to my family that I want that done of possible.

I'm a donor. I've got it on my paperwork that they can take whatever they need, eyes, skin, etc. my husband knows I do not under any circumstances want to be alive solely because of life support. If I'm brain dead then I'm not there anymore. I would much rather my body go to helping someone else survive than just dying with me. I want to be cremated anyway and don't want there to be a viewing or anything beforehand so it wouldn't matter what parts they needed to take.

I don't judge anyone for not being a donor, I know for some people being one would go against religious beliefs. I personally would rather my death help save lives than just be the end of my life.

I am not a donor ...

My organs suck I wouldn't wish them on anyone.

Nope. If anything happens to me they better do their best to save me!!!

I'm a donor. But I will be removing it soon because I've heard what pp said that they won't try as hard to save you.

My father recently died from stage five pancreatic cancer. Within minutes they were calling to harvest his eyes. It was extremely difficult.

I think organ donation is a wonderful thing. I am also a nurse and have been for 10 years and have witnessed some horrific instances of disrespect to dying humans from the organ retrieval center. I developed anxiety for years over a certain instance. It has stung and left me bitter. I've no problem donating, but I want my husband to be ok with it. And I don't want them coming in telling him what they're gonna take. My reasons are from personal experiences, before them I was registered as an organ donor. I since reversed that.

I am one!

@bubble, who are you to say one life matters more than the next? So what if It goes to an alcoholic who drank themselves to near death, they have someone who loves them and would give anything for hope.

So Because sometimes the organs go to less deserving you won't be there for the deserving?? SMDH

I'm an organ donor but now you guys have me worried !?

I'm a donor. I plan on being cremated anyways so why not. As for the people fearful that if they are the doctors will just "give up" on saving you, no doctor is going to risk their CAREER for that. I'm serious lol. I understand the concern but it looks a whole lot better on a doctors track record if you live than die.

I am an organ donor. If I can help a person live after my death, why wouldn't I? I mean, what am I gonna do with them?

I think it's really selfish not to,actually. Like, you'd rather let your organs rot in the ground than give someone a shot at survival?

I want my body donated to science or used for organ transplant. I'm not sure if you can do both, but depending on what's more practical, when I die, I don't plan to be buried whole. I want my death to benefit the world in some way. Wether it be, someone seeing through eyes that where mine, or my heart beating on, in someone else. Or being used for some sort of research, to further science. I want my death to mean as much as my life did. I want to help. I won't judge anyone who chooses to keep away from those options, and I wouldn't try to change anyone's mind, this is just what I want for myself.

At 16 I had to make the difficult decision to donate my father's organs. He died of a massive heart attack so not all organs were viable. We decided to donate what we could. I signed all the documents and the cardiac surgeon was very respectful. He said he knew it was a difficult decision to make and gave me time to think about it. I didn't need time I wanted my father to help anyone he could as that's how he was when he was alive. After I signed the papers he had to make sure it would be legal since I was a minor. So they had my mom sign below me. I will donate my organs as well. I still get letters to this day about the different things that were donated and how many people he has helped over the years. His family (my aunts and uncles) all told me how proud he would have been for me making this decision as he was so proud of his sister for making the same decision when she had passed 6 years earlier. I know the word proud seems like a crazy word to use in such a tragedy but it's what I needed to hear to reassure I made the right choice.

I am. I won't have any use of my organs once I'm dead so...

I am not, I actually have legal paperwork in my wallet my mother needs a kidney and 2 lobes of a lung and my little sister will one day need a kidney so it basically stipulates my organs are reserved for my family more or less

I think it's pointless to take your organs with you when they can save someone. If I've got anything worth using, give it someone who needs it.

Knowing first hand the gift that donated organs give, I will always be a donor. The woman who died whose kidney gave my father new life will have my eternal gratitude.

I used to be. However as a nurse I often get calls from the transplant team telling me afterwards where the organs went. One particular call killed it for me when a perfectly healthy young mans liver was transplanted into a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder. When you donate you or your family doesn't get to pick "who" receives the organs. They simply go by who's next on the transplant list.

I've also seen many..far too many people who need organs due to the own damage they've done to their bodies i.e. Drinking, smoking, drug use. They have to clean up in order to be eligible, but it's not terribly uncommon (not saying that they all do) for them to return back to their bad habits because now they have new parts to ruin. Makes me sad.

@ bobbie - Its due to my spiritual beliefs that Im not. Part of that is do to with any of my children and my children's children and so on as well as the fact I believe in reincarnation. So its actually about not taking something out of my body as it can effect my family further down the line. So to me its not selfish at all as Im ensuring the well being of anyone who has a genetic link to me. I hope that makes sense.

I'm an organ donor and I have a DNR for any situation in which resuscitation would mean severely diminished quality of life. I also want my body donated to science when I die.

I think not being a donor generally comes from a place of ignorance in the true sense of the word- a lack of knowledge. When people are informed and still choose not to be a donor, then I think it's incredibly selfish.

I was told that they don't try as hard to save you if you're an organ donor. True or not, that was my reason for switching to a non organ donor. If you really think about it, it is a money world. Would doctors save you and let your recover OR let you die, harvest your organs, and perform a thousands of dollar surgery on someone else? Hmm ?

I am not an organ donor I want to die with all my pieces still intact lol I honestly don't know anyone who is an organ donor.

I think its extremely selfish not to be an organ donor.

Op, I love your username.

I am also a donor- if I am not using my psrts, someone else should be able to. I think there really is a fear that you will just be left to die for organ harvesting if you are a donor and that is why people don't register.

I am and I'm also on the bone marrow registry. If I can't continue with my life I want someone else to be able to continue theirs. If I can save another family from feeling the pain that my family is going to feel then I want to do so.

Im not tho I use to be. I changed due to my spiritual beliefs. I have seen first hand someone not getting all the help they needed to save there life due to the fact they were an organ donor. It was extremely stressful and I still have issues over it. I don't wish to go into details as it was my best friend, but I will say the doc had some very serious charges against him and a huge fine.... tho he was still able to practice.

This reminds me that yesterday I read a report about a mother who found out her kid was dead when they called to asked for his organs. What a horrible way to find out your child is dead.

I am not

I don't have desire for my body to be butchered open.

I am a donor and my SO isn't .

He's completely against it . If I'm gone , I will go with piece knowing I was able to help someone .

Doctors will keep a body on life support to remove organs. They did this with my grandmother who was an organ donor. My mother didn't get to have closure with her moms death due to this. They flew her body still in support to a different hospital to remove her organs. Technically she wasn't dead until her organs were removed.

Actually have been many lawsuits between families in hospitals about pushing DNR forms (do not resuscitate) for organ donors, as well as switching their main focus from saving the patients live to saving viable organs to give to other patients. I used to be an organ donor and I removed myself after doing the research.

Pp you wouldn't know about it ??

I am a donor. When my mother passed away, she donated her corneas, skin, and kidneys to 5 different people. We got invited to the Celebration of Life ceremony hosted by CORE for donor families to meet with the families who got our donations. It was a beautiful ceremony and I'm glad we were able to meet two of the other people who my mom helped. ❤

I am however said no to donating my skin and eyes. They have consent for everything else though. I know it can do good but it freaks me out. I've told family they can donate any organ including eyes and skin once I'm dead, I just don't want to know about it now lol

I don't feel comfortable leaving my body to science either but that is 100%

I'm a donor ,I'm wanna save some ones life, why let my body go to waste when I can save some one . My dh says it's gross/wrong ? ,I told him he needs to grow up !!

When I got asked as a teen when I first got my license, I 100% thought they were going to ask me to donate my organs while I was alive. Like if someone needed a kidney in my area and we were a match, they would call me up to set my surgery date. ? My mom told me to say yes though so I did. But now I obviously know thats not the case.

I'm an organ donor and I've told my husband that if something happens to him I will donate his organs (he's fine with it) and if God forbid something ever happens to one of my boys I will donate their organs as well.

my family knows i'm an organ donor but i put no on my DL. i watched an episode in criminal minds that made me change my mind lol.

I am but I struggle with if my children will be. Of course I would hate for another parent to lose their child due to a failed organ that mine could have donated, but the selfish part of me would want to be there when my child took his last breath and that's not something that can happen if their organs were donated.

I followed a blog for a while where her 5 year old son went braindead and he was on life support. When it was time, she said goodbye and they wheeled him away. The next time she saw him, he was gone, all organs removed. She didn't get to hold his hand while he breathed his last breath and his heart stopped. That would be very hard for me.

I'm an organ donor. ☺

If you're in a life or death situation and doctors are frantically trying to save your life, they aren't going to whip out your wallet and check your ID to see if they should let you die or not ? I never understood that argument. Anyway- I am an organ donor. If I can help someone else when I'm gone I'll be happy.

Maybe one day I'll change my mind. As it is, I don't want to think about being cut open after I'm dead. I have a hard enough time deciding I'm being cremated

I used to be but I'm not anymore. It's something I need to think more about. I am a blood donor and have been on the marrow list for years and just aged out this year.

Something happened that changed my mind. Long story short; we were told my grandpa was brain dead and would never wake up from his coma. After he was removed from life support; he did wake up. He had to relearn literally everything from walking, talking and eating but he did it.

I do feel selfish in a way for not wanting to donate right now but I just need to do some more soul searching on this issue.

I'm listed as one.

I don't understand why anyone would choose not to be. No offense, but the organs are going to rot in the ground otherwise.

My ex committed suicide in December. It was a botched attempt and he was put on life support. His organs were donated to five different men.

I used to but my husband gave me crap for it and told me it was against our religion so I just never put it back on.

I don't have it on my drivers license but everyone I love and everyone my emergency contact knows that I want my organs donated.

This is probably not true but in my mind I feel like drs will give up sooner when trying to save your life if you're an organ donor, especially if you're a match for an organ someone else desperately needs.

I was an organ donor up until a few years ago. I had a friend that passed away on a girls trip and literally within minutes the organization or hospital that would harvest the organs were wanting to speak to me to ask for a certain body part. I understand that it's time sensitive and they have to harvest the organs within a certain amount of time in order for them to still be viable. All I asked was to please let me speak to her mother before they called. Well as soon as we hung up, they called her mother to advise her that her child had passed and they wanted an organ. Her mother called me minutes later as I was walking out the hospital to call her and she was screaming asking if it's true. No parent deserved to be told in that manner with that lack of sensitivity. Now that could be an isolated situation as to how it was handled but it affected me so deeply that I removed my organ donor designation and made my husband do the same.

I'm a donor. If I'm going to die, I'm not going to use my organs anyway. Why not save someone's life or make it easier? It's a selfless thing to do, and I don't know why people are so against it. Like you'd rather your organs rot in the ground than save someone's life?

I mean I knew being on the marrow donor list would be pretty rare, but I thought more people would be organ donors. Like I'm brain dead, what am I going to do with my lungs.