Thread: Organ donation (NSW)

Originally Posted by TomBrulinski

Until I get to a ripe old age, Im not going to be a organ donor. If you are taken to hospital when you are say 25 and an organ donor, the doctors will not try to save you as much as someone who isn't. They know how much those organs are needed to save a specific person. THats my view.

This is the stuff thats completely untrue. I haven't read further into the thread even to see if anyone else has replied but they don't tissue type you for this stuff without permission from the family so someone would be made aware well before.

Originally Posted by Barefoot Dave

My issues are these:
The Financial burden placed on recipients (family). If I am to donate my loved ones organs and allow greater damage them than has occured, why can't the surgeons donate their time or part of it?
Obviously, there are a limited number of surgeons available on a given shift, but I feel for the recipient families and the ensuing financial burden (little compared to losing their loved one, I know).


Thanks in advance.
Dave.

This is gold. The surgeons (and I know a few) as they rise through the ranks tend to get their god like opinions of themselves (the ones that consider themselves in the "important" fields) from their piers/mentors.

You my friend have just set the criteria for me consenting for my wife and deciding to donate mine. I'll even get a dirty big tattoo, DNR, Donate all, charge nothing.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

you can all have whatever bits you want from me.......there... its in writing...you are free to get any legal sanctioning you want for it to happen

Maybe the donor cards and informing the family could be reinforced with a codecil in the will, which everyone is aware of, that if the relative refuses permission for an organ donation their share of the estate goes to Transplant Australia