Compulsory Organ Donation

I object to this plan and will certainly be opting out of donating any organs of mine after I've pegged it.

There are several reasons for this:-

1. Yes, I'll be dead, but I still don't want those who call themselves doctors playing with my body. I don't want them cracking my skull open or grinding up my bones. They've had their pound of flesh off me while I'm alive. No, I want to go complete thanks very much.

2. I knew a girl who was a medical student and told me about one class they had where the body of some well-meaning donor had been hung up in front of the class. Dead and naked. He was a fat man and she told me how the students had tittered amongst themselves and made jokes about his body. I reckon people who donate think they're bits are going to be used for fabulous transplants and saving someone else's life, without realising that most of them are chopped and hacked about in front of a load of giggling teenagers. I've always insisted on dignity in life and I'd like to have it in death too.

3. Where organs are used in transplants, I still object. Many doctors here pursue money and glory. Being a transplant consultant is much more glamorous and better rewarded than being a humble vaccination nurse, but the former might 'save' 10 or 20 lives with his transplants in his career. The latter might save tens of thousands. Each transplant might costs many thousands, whereas the vaccination costs 50p. For that reason, I don't even think they ought to be bothering spending all that money on a transplant for one person, when the resources would be better spent on vaccinating a couple of thousand poor kids.

 

Your number 2 is nothing to with common organ donation. I'd like to think most people who donate their bodies for medical students to use do it with eyes wide open anyway (Possibly literally). There was a documentary about it a couple of years ago, where they followed the donor from before they died right the way though. None of the donors seemed like the ill-informed type. And it's a fact people laugh and joke in inappropriate situations all the time - it's a natural response when they're nervous or unused to something. It's a good coping mechanism. It's human nature. I'd much rather people called a corpse fat than a living person.

The taboo around death is ridiculous anyway. A lot of the customs around death have religious origins but somehow pervade where in other areas of life people haven't accepted them for decades.

If anything in my body is useful for someone else after I've popped my clogs they're welcome to it. Though, quite selfishly I admit, I intend to use it for some time to come and they can fook off until then.

 

What UEA said.

If it wasn't for people donating their bodies to medical science for research then I'd probably be dead now. Hopefully the same will help you live a long and happy life Clive.

 

There is a microscopic chance my genetically superior WFC organs would go to a luton fan. Therefore I've opted out.

 

In related news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45286347

 

They really are utter ****s arent they.

 

I'm happy for others to use my bits to stay alive.
Re your #2 - I would be happy for female medical students to be gasping in awe at the wonder of my body. I suspect one or two may do a little more than gasp. A good looking guy like me would certainly be a prime target for a face transplant, and maybe the odd other organ I can think of. Some may choose to have a transplant even when not medically required.
Re your #3 - Yes all transplant consultants are in it for the money and the glory. When my late father, a consultant cardiologist, came home from work he used to talk endlessly about his success rate stats and earnings and how he sat in the relative league tables. In fact the reason he carried on working well past 65 was for glory, nothing to do with trying to help patients and save lives.
ps "...and will certainly be opting out of donating any organs of mine after I've pegged it". Best to opt out before you peg it. Otherwise you might inadvertently end up saving someone's life.

 

If a medical student wants to use my chopper for a joke after I'm dead, then they are welcome to.

I'd also be amused if my atheist heart ended up in some religious type.

Compulsory organ donation is a sign of progress.

 

I've got no issue with people not wanting to donate their organs, but I think those who refuse to donate shouldn't be allowed to receive them either.

Reap what you sow. If you refuse to help others than why should you benefit in turn?

 

Ffs, I thought that Clive was going to say he was being hit for local church repairs. I was going to recommend chancel insurance.

 

I'm surprised at you, Clive. A chance to help one of your fellow men (or women), and at no cost to yourself, and you won't take it. Disappointing

 

Clive, would you also take this approach about vaccinations being cheaper if you were the one in need of a new kidney?

 

Hmmmm. Really impossible to answer unless it actually happened. I'd like to think I'd stick to my guns but don't honestly know.

If it were one of the kids who wanted a transplant though, I have to confess I'd probably cave in easier than a Tottenham defender...

 

I somehow don't think a body that had been donated to medical science would come complete with their actual identity, me thinks somebody might be telling PORKIES

 

Err...there was literally a documentary on it a couple of years ago. Read this if you're interested:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/20...dy-dissected-and-filmed-for-tv_n_8206240.html

 

Where do I need to send it ?

 

This (well actually it was this) pretty much changed everything as there had to be full traceability of samples and "full" non-exposure of human remains to non-specialists - the public's access to the Wellcome collection was severely affected.

Any interested in donation can find info here. As an aside, I see that those of us with a WD postcode have to go to ****** London Poly, whereas those with the more classy AL/HP postcodes go to Cambridge...even in death Snorbens/Harpenden is right up its own ********.

 

Fool. Not that but this:

 

3D printing?

 

Yep it's that easy. All you've got to do is build an "active", inert, biocompatible scaffold, seed it with a limitless supply of stem cells and have a mechanism to program their differentiation to target cells whilst at the same time the scaffold begins to exhibit "passive" biocompatibilty as its biodegraded in situ. It's so easy I'm crowfunding my own business - the first stage is to get some white paint to make my research premises* look more professional.

*Shed,

 

When people realise they are not their physical selves this obviously wont be a problem.

 

Well if you say so I beleive you.

However I have to say it really surprises me that the name of the person you were basically using as a piece of meat to carve up, all be it in a very good course, is made known to those who are actually doing the carving up at the time you are actually doing it, why would you need or even want to know that?

 

FFS @cyaninternetdog the sheeple aren't supposed to ever know this....

 

Rachel is very much her physical self.

 

Could you programme them to excel at football.

Cheaply.

Please PM me.

Gino

 

What somebody's organs? My medical/physiology training may have been many, many, many summers ago but even I'm straining to see the benefit of having a liver/kidney/pancreas that's good "...at football...". Perhaps this is one for @nisman94, @cthulhu or @Optimistichornet?

 

Ah, my mind had wandered.

I thought we were discussing creating whole humans.

If you did create a kidney, couldn't you somehow cut & paste the genome to make the other bits?

I read History.

Btw, just undergone an endoscopy.

A brief yet unpleasant experience.

 

You’re farts won’t make a sound fo the rest of the day.

 

This, in essence is pretty much where all biomedical research has led us to. We "know" exactly what "we've" got to do "we've" just got to work out "how" to do it as I stated in post #22.

 

Rumour* is that they didn't before the procedure.

*Moog told me.

 

If a troll farts in the woods and nobody is around to hear it does it stink?

 

Making good progress with gas expulsion.

Working from home.