Organ Donation, Presumed Consent.

sapelesam | 17:26 Tue 12th Dec 2017 | Body & Soul

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As the Government discuss changing the law regarding organ donation, are you for or against presumed consent. I have always carried a donor card and am registered, after my death they can have what ever they want. I can see a great benefit to ethnic minorities who are woefully under represented on the register. Can the health service afford all the extra transplants that will now be possible. A few points there, very interested in AB'ers views.

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sunny-dave

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At last - it's been far too long in coming. I hope that the "we still need to ask the relatives" issue gets booted into touch too. All it needs now is the final tweak that says "If you opt out, then you go to the back of the queue if you subsequently need a transplant"

17:31 Tue 12th Dec 2017

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pixie374

It could well affect you, corylus. That was my point, which is fine as long as you are aware of it.

sapelesam

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Wondered if my mention of ethnic minorities would light the blue touch paper, so far no.

pixie374

I read something, possibly on here, that heart transplants are likely to be obsolete within ten years. Will see if I can find a link.

pixie374

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/12/03/heart-transplants-likely-obsolete-within-10-years-says-heart/

Old_Geezer

I may consent for my brain to be donated after my death, to help those who are hard of thinking.

tamborine

Seems just skin, bone & corneas can be used after death

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&;hl=en-gb&q=how+long+after+death+can+you+donate+organs&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKxqfH-ITYAhXsB8AKHVTeDCAQ1QIIlgEoAw&biw=375&bih=628

EDDIE51

I am on the donor register, and have also bequeathed my body to Cambridge University medical school. But I can see problems if for example a Muslim gets a Christian heart or vice versa. There are also plans to grow spare human organs inside pigs but Muslims may have a problem with that as well! So will it be one rule for Christians and atheists and another for Muslims?

hc4361

That's why organs are taken before death, tambo

tamborine

So after donations we will die or be murdered, hc

naomi24

I carry a donor card - and I'm happy with presumed consent. Your bits and pieces are no good to you once you're dead. Better given away to someone who can make use of them than burnt or buried.

hc4361

Well taking your major organs out would certainly contribute to your death

woofgang

I agree with OG. While I do support organ donation, I am strongly against presumed consent and should this happen, I will register my non consent. I have never forgotten John Prescott stating that organs are a public resource and people should not be allowed to refuse to donate.

Peter Pedant

// It does affect the drugs you can have while you are dying and your own dying process.//

no - it doesnt - the drugs given to someone dying is not related to what the organs will be like .... you will be completely unsurprised to learn that the law and morals state that the treatment of a person (who i agree is later er dead) is dictated by his condition and nothing else.

just a little tweak there to the discussion

clearly this doesnt apply to ISIS - who seem to have harvested organs from living prisoners who then died a few minutes later - nor once you have been found to be dead by two doctors prior to organ harvest.

works well in wales

it is not hit and run - clearly some people are gonna be unsuitable altho look OK -

pixie374

Ok, PP... but my friend's MIL wasn't allowed anything metabolised by the liver, because she was a donor and had to be kept on life support while all the teams were brought in and recipients. Whatever should happen, is not necessarily what happens in practice.