What do you think about being an organ donor?
152864
I am one. I'm not going to need my organs after I die anyway. When God gets ready to resurrect my body, He'll find 'em.
770386
What a nice thing to do-I'd do it myself too if I could but I had a transfusion once so now they don't allow it-\nIf it wasn't for people like you I wouldn't be here.\n\nThank you.
147559
Haha good choice on placing this under "Etiqutte".\n\nI guess it depends who and for what. I mean, firefighters and cops risk their lives every day to save people that they don't know. When SWAT teams are storming houses to free hostages and fire crews are racing through unstable buildings, they are willingly placing their lives on the line.\n\nPersonally, I think I would die for others if it was for a good enough cause (firefighting, police work, military)--but in most cases, the answer would be no. I'm not ashamed, it's okay to enjoy your own life, and it's not selfish.\n\nWanna know how to save someone's life AND live your own? Be an organ donor. When you die, you donate your organs to people who need them.
840792
organ donor and cremation.  the flesh is a vessel i ride around in.
1160170
Never been there, however I can tell you that if you are prefectly healthy and they take a prefectly healthy organ from you, you will feel weak and will probably take longer to recover than your sister. Afterwards you probably won't notice much of a difference.\n\nJust going from memory here though. But if she needs the kidney to live, then it'll be worth it. It hurts more to lose a loved one than it does an organ.
319830
According to my dad's wishes, we donated his organs, and our family incurred no cost.....\n\nAre there any costs to my family for donation?\nThe donor’s family does not pay for the cost of the organ donation. All costs related to donation of organs and tissues are paid by the recipient, usually through insurance, Medicare or Medicaid.\n\nhttp://www.organdonor.gov/faq.html\n\nDoes a donor's family have to pay the cost of donation?\nNo. There is no question of any payment at all. The NHS meets the costs related to the donation of organs.\n\nhttp://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/how_to_become_a_donor/questions/answers/answers_10.jsp#q30
1097710
I think you should have a say so of who gets your organs, after all they are legally your organs.  But then again after you die and can't really fight for who gets what, the people who do decide who & where your organs go could tell you that those degenerates you mentioned above won't get your organs, but then turn around and give them to the degenerates anyway.  What can you say your dead!  So it doesn't matter to them!
550534
I think the best thing to do depends on your age. If you are relatively young and healthy, organ donation is a wonderful way to give the gift of life to people who would otherwise have little chance for survival.\n\nIf you are not considered an appropriate organ donor (or simply don't wish to donate organs), you should contact local medical schools. They all have programs to donate your body, and your donation will help train the next generation of physicians.
427233
organ donation is probably the best!\n\nsearch for info about it and find some stories about people and their lives and how their lives have changed because of organ donation\n\nthis is one speech you will win
124511
far enough to cure cancer. We should also be able to clone our own organs so that if we ever needed a new heart or lung or whatever, we won't have to wait on a list for a year till someone died in order to get it. \nIf we were able to grow a heart on a dish, then we wouldn't have to wait for someone to die.. and we wouldn't have to worry about rejection because it's our own organ.
140979
As noted, it's likely that you are not a suitable donor, if your friend is not a relative.\n\nHow is your friend's life in danger?  Is your friend receiving hemodialysis?  Generally that is a life-saving option.  For many patients, peritoneal dialysis is another option.\n\nI would advise everyone to sign up to donate organs after their death, but for living patients, caution is appropriate.\n\nIt might be rare, but I have seen kidney donors pay a price in terms of their health.  \n\nIt might be unique to my experiences, but I would be extra cautious regarding laparascopic surgery.
692270
One of the major problems with most transplant procedures is acceptibility. The patient's body recognizes the new organ as an intruder or threat, and attacks it.\nA cloned version of yourself would theoretically be a source of completely acceptable organs, since they are, in essence, your organs, genetically identical. Of course, you'd be killing another sentient being to harvest these organs, so there's the morality issue.\n\nHuman ingenuity has always been directed towards two opposite goals, saving lives, and destroying them. The other likely reason for cloning humans is for war. Identical soldiers, genetically modified to increase their physical prowess, dexterity with their weapon, and willingness to follow orders. Why send thousands of skilled laborers, with families and children, to their deaths when you can have a clone army grown specifically to be cannon fodder?\n\nI'm sure you could think of a few more reasons, if you really thought about it.
1158105
Very good question.\n\nNo, it's not a sin.\n\nAgreeing to be an organ donor -- either while you're still alive, or after your death -- is seen as a great act of charity by the Catholic Church.\n\nThe only possible way it would be a sin, is if a person allowed him/herself to be killed in order to donate organs to others.  But that's one of those "far fetched" things.
729517
my uncle received a heart and kidney transplant that gave him life for an additional 13 years...someone elses loss gave us more time to enjoy our family member...am i selfish, yes? am i grateful to those who lost a beautiful woman, yes! yes, because they in their time of sorrow were able to give the gift to us--total strangers....so, my answer is of course my organs are being donated....
1182372
The one poster noted rejection issues, and there are numerous ones. Naturally, animal organ transplantation can never replace human organ transplantation (though stem cell research does offer some hope to replace the latter in 50-100 years).\n\nIt is moral to sacrifice an animal life to save a human life from the perspective that a human life is more valuable than that of an animal
427318
Ok dear friend, \nwhen you ask a charged question like "how do I sell my body to science and get paid for it now?", better get ready to face uncomfortable answers like the first answer you recieved from someone. So how will you feel if you loose one by one of your body parts, you no longer exist and who needs the money this way??. If you realy need help with money, there is a way to get help by helping others  by participating in volunteer programes, \n\n                 read below..........\n\nFirst of all, you cannot sell your body for science or as a matter of fact to medicine as it is illegal and fraudulent. However, you can participate as volunteer in certain clinical tests, trials and tasks for which you will be paid or compensated. All the above, it is a very nobel act to get involved as a volunteer in research studies as it will help some patients immediately or it will be useful to someone, somewhere further down the road. In retrospect, you will learn lot more about your body and its conditions without paying for it.\n\nIf you live close by medical centers or medical schools and human research centers, you can find opportunities in notice borads for volunteers request with contact phone numbers and e-mails.\n\nIf you have any health problems, you may not be qualified, if you are certain age and you must check for age, smoking and drinking conditions to qualify in any research tests. \n\nSo, there is no body selling in science. On the other hand, you can sign organ donor programe that will be effective after your death, again this is for another nobel cause and you will not be paid for organ donor, not now or not after your death. It is left to you to participate or not!!??. \n\nIf you know that someone is selling body parts or buying it, you should report to concerned authorities, it is extremely dangerous and illegal practice and it is a crime subjected to punishment.
635081
"Donor" is refers to one who donates. If they want to charge they should call it blood selling. They do pay you when you give plasma, which is in your blood. But they don't call it donating, they call it giving. And in return you receive compensation. I'm sure if sociaty gets desperate and people become more stingy, they may start to pay for blood "donations".