Are you an organ donor?
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not yet, but i will be
849937
Part of me thinks it is acceptable with the alcoholics/smokers thing because if I donated my organs I'd want them to go to someone who would deserve & appreciate them not just use them to be able to cause a bit more damage to themselves.\n\nI'd draw the line at the white,black,chinese,muslim bit because at the end of the day as long as that person isn't going to abuse that organ again we're all just people wanting to get better,it doesn't matter what race or religion we are.
1135937
I am an organ donor...I won't need them as far as I know...\nI think there are some religions that aren't for it but it works for me
323753
In no country. It is illegal based on international law. Your only alternative is to register on the kidney list and wait for a suitable donor.\n\nSorry.
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If you signed your organ donor card, then yes you can.\n\nI'm giving my spleen to Vishnu and my liver to Zeus.
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.
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If someone in your family needed a kidney? \nLets say that this person had sexually abused you as a child, would you still give them one of your own kidneys? (Most healthy people can live with one kidney). Would you do it?\n\nYes...you are definitely correct! Healthy people can live with one kidney.\nBut not every healthy people can right away donate kidney. As a donor, you need to undergone a series of examination test such as HLA compatibility test to identify the degree of rejection probability by recipient to your kidney. As FYI, every single individual is unique, even identical twin can reject the kidney of his/her sibling twin.\n\nThat is why doctors uses immuno suppresant drugs and steroids after surgical operation to minimize or delay the rejection time of the tissue implant.\n(If you are familiar with the movie film "THE ISLAND", they used the technology of clonning to solve the issues of tissue implant problem.)\n\nAs for the question of family dilemma...that is the hardest part. It will took me a couple more time before i answer your question. Because of considering i was sexually abused by this person....it is very traumatic!! Maybe after i finally agree to donate my kidney, he/she is lying 6 feet under the ground.\n\ni hope this one is helpful to you!
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I am an organ donor, and have made sure my family knows it.  What could be the worst day for my family could be the best for another.
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Yes because it affects the life of the recipient, the whole point of organ donation.
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Yes..They can take any organ.... Blood type and sizeis the only factor.
712134
Your body parts are invaluable to you, and to those lucky recipients who would recieve one after your death.  As you are aware, it is illegal to sell organs and illegal to purchase them.  Anyone who would pay you is already breaking the law, and at that point you become more of a liability to them to keep alive after the organ is harvested.  They also tend not to be really careful doing the surgery, inept is the word that comes to mind most often, and you of course would be the loser.  Which still makes your organs more valuable to you inside you than sold to the highest bidder.  Aside from being illegal, it's immoral practice no decent doctor would take part in.  Even if somebody did know more information, you can bet they certainly wouldn't discuss it on an answer forum such as this.  Conducting illegal business via the web is a bit risky.
840792
organ donor and cremation.  the flesh is a vessel i ride around in.
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Sell one of your organs
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Of course NOT. Some answerers above answered "we can do whatever we want to ourselves" but that's WRONG. You can take drug if you want? No you cannot. There is such a thing called SOCIETAL IMPACT. In economics we call it Negative Externality. Some answerers above gave a good answer by saying that allowing people to sell their organ will lead to more crime, whether it's people "robbing" someone's organ, or corporate crime whereby companies exert their influence to manipulate the organ transplant process to maximize their monetary profits.\n\nI hope stem cell research can take off soon -- THAT is the hope in the medical community.
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stem cell research (experiments on growing whole new organs from things called stem cells)\n\n\nliving donor \n\ncadaverous donor - deceased donor; most commonly from brain death\n\norgan procurement organization (OPO)\n\nharvesting\n\ndissolving stitches\n\nHyperacute rejection occurs as soon as the donated organ is in the body. This only happens if there are already antibodies in the recipient's bloodstream that react to the new organ, which would occur if the blood types of the donor and recipient were incompatible for some reason. This almost never happens, since transplant teams always test for any incompatibility ahead of time. If it were to happen, the recipient would most likely die on the operating table.  \n\nAcute rejection occurs at least a few days after the transplant, after the body has had time to recognize the foreign material. This is the normal immune response to foreign matter. \n\nChronic rejection is a very gradual rejection, lasting months or years. It can be so subtle that the patient doesn't notice any ill effects for some time. \n\n\nhttp://health.howstuffworks.com/organ-transplant.htm
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It is up to the parents and loved ones to determine the fate of a newborn relative to an organ donation. But wouldn't it be a wonderful world if during this time of grief people were able to accept the fate of their child and then be able to be compassionate to others with critically ill children, who will share their same fate, by donating an organ or organs to save a life. In the short life span of the newborn it will have come into this world and saved anothers life. What a noble and unselfish life to have led. I have 3 children, all healthy, Thank God, whom if any were to die I would hope I would help another suffering parent with the gift of life. In times of utter dispair I always ask myself what would Jesus ask me to due and then try to do it.
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Check it out... I can answer seriously...\n\nI gave my kidney away to a friend 8 or 9 years ago. Honest and no joke. Our tissue matches up like brothers and he has not had an issue with rejection. My kidney dr. is all pissed at me though for not drinking enough water through the day... kidney stones and all...\n\n I have often wondered about the tissue though. What is the DNA of the grafting and connecting tissue from my old kidney to his body anyway?\n\n I won't even go into the spiritual side of it... Yes the Bearded One has a spiritual side...\n\n I'm watching this question though. Nice to know I'm not the only one who has thought about this...\n\nIf you ever want to give up a kidney however, Swedish Med on the hill in Seattle is THE BEST!!!\n\n The actually made me a steak, Rare! AT 4:AM!!!\n\nI also proposed to a nurse while in the morph drip... that was fun.\nGetting the cath out was a pain...\n\n But I'd do it again.