Should organ donation be mandatory?
346687
No, technically it is the person's body and they should be able to do with it what they please.\n\nHowever, imho, I do feel it is morally wrong and selfish not to be an organ donor. If you're dead, your physical self shouldn't matter anymore. Why not help someone else to live longer? And like you said, you never know when you might need an organ....how would you feel if no one wanted to donate to you?
26046
There is of course some risk from the surgery itself. The living donors online web site says,\n"Because living kidney donation has been practiced for more than 40 years, research has been conducted on the long-term effects of donation on the donor. In general, these studies have shown very little negative impact."\nFor more info, see the source link below.\n\nIn a Swedish study:\n"Of 430 people who donated between 1964 and 1994, 41 died from 18 months to 31 years following donation. The causes of death included cardiovascular disease, cancer, injury or accidents, gastrointestinal disease, alcoholism, and other diseases. None died of kidney disease. The study also concluded that the survival rates of donors were higher than the general population, possibly due to the careful selection of donors based on their health (i.e., donors tend to be healthier than the general population.)"
383496
To different questions.  A person is declared dead by a doctor in most states.  (Some allow paramedics or RNs in certain situations to do it, but most require a doctor)\n\nA person is available to be harvested only if a family member consents to it.  Once they have consent they see if there is anything they can harvest.  By law they can't begin this process/conversation until the person is dead.  Also the doctor declaring the patient dead can't have any interest in the transplant.  (can't be his patient getting the organs, a family member getting them, can't be the one harvesting them, etc)
559560
I'm guessing that you meant rule...\n\nThere wouldn't be a prison overcrowding problem if I was in charge...how many people sit slowly dying waiting for a heart or liver transplant in this country, while we have hundreds of prospective donors sitting on death row waiting to have poison pumped into their body rendering their organs useless? Can anyone explain the logic behind this to me? I would kill two birds with one stone so to speak.
375523
Right. I mean, if we can grow organs in a lab than maybe not as many people will die while they are on organ transplant waiting lists. Of course with every step for man kind comes an inherent evil as well. We could start growing humans and using them as slaves... that would be wrong, but growing organs to save lives... THAT'S A MIRACLE! Embrace it.
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!
131853
I think there should be alot more suicides, assisted or otherwise. How about some mandatory suicide. A person's life is their own to do with what they will. If someone is too ill to want to live through morbid pain, they should have that choice to make. Bible or no bible. Sorry if my answer wasn't properly formatted to your question. Rants aren't often pretty.
393154
Not enough, in my opinion.\n\n"More than 1,000 Arizona residents are on transplant lists and just 41 thousand people are registered as organ donors."\n\nhttp://www.kpho.com/global/story.asp?s=3920853&ClientType=Printable\n\n"Each day about 63 people receive an organ transplant, but another 16 people on the waiting list die because not enough organs are available. Make a difference in a person's life."\n\nhttp://www.fdhc.state.fl.us/MCHQ/Health_Facility_Regulation/Organ_Donors/\n\n"In the United States, the waiting list is quoted to be about 90,000 people long. It is not uncommon for those on the waiting list to die before receiving a suitable organ."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donor\n\nBut, sorry, I could not find a source which would tell me a percentage of Americans who are donors.
110735
yes, definitely.  Why not give to others what you don't need anymore.  It'll help save lives.  It would make such a difference in someone else's life, help a family who could almost lose someone, turn a whole life around.  It seems selfish not to.
498847
The world is already overpopulated and there are too many unwanted or orphaned children. Why would we need to clone a person except to use them as non-humans such as organ producers for organ donation or as slaves, etc. No matter which way you look at it, it is the arrogance of man who is messing with something he has not thought through. The consequences of this capability will be nothing but negative.
85924
It would depend on how they are executed.\nMany states use lethan injecttion in which chemicals are injected into the person.  These chemicals, I believe, make the organs useless for transplant.  Electricution probably isnt too good either for the organs.\nHowever being shot would leave many of the vital organs instact (not the heart), in theory [they could miss].  There is only one [maybe two?] states that still use a firing sqaud however.
214830
Organ sales are ILLEGAL.
85206
This is up for huge debate. Still much to be decided on this by the courts.\n\nAs for my thoughts on the matter. I believe any person should have the right to die if they are aware of their irreversable situation of health or whatever. I also believe that a "living will" that explains a person's wishes not to be left in a vegetative state should be upheld as well.
224688
People might have different views about cloning. But  if  organs are cloned for people who cant find any donors ,then its right and should be encouraged.But this technology should be handled with extra care, so that it may not get misused
252737
I'ed first make sure an organ donation was set up and would be taken care of. Then I'ed make sure my brother would get all my money and stuff and would be taken care of. My funeral would be a party, I would write out little requests of things I didn't have time to do, everything from sky diving to adopting a child, I would ask the people that loved me to pick one and do it, along with something they always wanted to do, then get together a year after I died and share with each other what they did and how it changed them. You're right if we live like we were dying and we take care of the things and people in our life today, not only can we make our life worth living, but our loved ones can help us live on, not only in their memories, but their actions.
176964
It's not an issue of how the baby was born.  It is up to the individual if they want to give up a kidney to save a life.  Doing so though puts that person's life at risk and they could have complications later.\n\nI could never ask anyone I love to donate their organs; it would be unfair.
824032
The person who gives consent to becoming a live organ donor must be:\n\n    *      competent (possessing decision making capacity)\n    *      willing to donate\n    *      free from coercion\n    *      medically and psychosocially suitable\n    *      fully informed of the risks and benefits as a donor and\n    *      fully informed of the risks, benefits, and alternative treatment available to the recipient.