Here's how to register to be an Organ Donor

Bump.

My request is on my driver's license, as is my blood type and next of kin. (love those Brother [TM] labeling machines).

Good bump, though. Useful for folks to know.

It is very very dangerous to be an organ donor. There is great risk that if you are on life support they will cut you off and pull the plug early to get your organs to another person. It happens a lot and hospitals try to keep it all hush hush. I have heard of cases where when they were taking the organs out the guy began to revive, but by then it was too late to stop the surgery and so the doctors had to kill the guy to finish taking his organs.

So the doctors get their fees, the hospital gets their fees and the deceased next of kin get zippo. Sounds like a great deal>NOT

I heard about a guy who was in the hospital and the nurses fed him pop rocks and pepsi until he EXPLODED and then the hospital staff scraped his organs off the wall and sold them to Canada on the black market. True story.

bahahahahah

Fast Girls Rock wrote:

It is very very dangerous to be an organ donor. There is great risk that if you are on life support they will cut you off and pull the plug early to get your organs to another person. It happens a lot and hospitals try to keep it all hush hush. I have heard of cases where when they were taking the organs out the guy began to revive, but by then it was too late to stop the surgery and so the doctors had to kill the guy to finish taking his organs.

I've seen a lot of idiotic things written on LetsRun -- and written plenty myelf -- but the above is the stupidest thing ever.

There is a very specific process to go through to harvest organs, and hospitals are not involved. Organ retrieval is done through organ procurement agencies, not individual hospitals.

Sadly, registering to be a donor means nothing. You have to let your family members know of your wishes. They make the final decision. Your next of kin makes the decision, not what's written on your drivers license. So, tell your wife/husband, mom/dad, siblings, significant other, priest/preacher, etc. that you want your organs used after your death.

Otherwise it will not occur.

I dont think that Oregon needs any more donors. Nike has given them so much, lets spread the wealth around.

You were just at the movies weren't yah?

There's a reason that transplant surgeons are also known as "the butchers".

Do the Chinese still keep people in prison so they can harvest organs? Will they deal with that issue before the (sound of trumpets) OLYMPIC GAMES?

La Musica wrote:

Do the Chinese still keep people in prison so they can harvest organs? Will they deal with that issue before the (sound of trumpets) OLYMPIC GAMES?

YES.

do a google search with the phrase "organ tourism."

it seems to be common practice is china to execute prisoners only after their organs have been sold to westerners, often canadians.

Fast Girls Rock wrote:

It is very very dangerous to be an organ donor. There is great risk that if you are on life support they will cut you off and pull the plug early to get your organs to another person. It happens a lot and hospitals try to keep it all hush hush. I have heard of cases where when they were taking the organs out the guy began to revive, but by then it was too late to stop the surgery and so the doctors had to kill the guy to finish taking his organs.

This has to be the stupidest post of the year.

I have been through the process, where the attending doctors advise you of all possible options regarding organ donation. They DO NOT offer any suggestions, or give leading answers. If you ask, they just give staight information. It takes a while to realize this, and it is hard to think while your relative is in his/her relatively new vegatative state.

When your family agrees for your organs to be harvested, they take you into a room, remove life support systems, and wait for your heart to stop. If it doesn't stop in 90 minutes, they put you back on life support, wheel you back in, and the family is informed and a new set of decisions must be made. After 90 minutes of potential oxygen deprivation, the organs are no longer suitable for transplant. But now the family is faced with a new challenge - a loved one who will niether recover nor pass away.

Go through the process and then let us know what you think. Before that, it is best ot withold judgement.

Just follow Nike's lead and who to can become an Oregon Donor!

Spell check;that would be you also....

Low on Funds wrote:

Just follow Nike's lead and who to can become an Oregon Donor!

I'm an organ LENDER.