ORGANS

[Meat Puppet]

I’m an organ donor in three different countries

[Momiji]

I'm a registered organ donor, and I used to have the little pink sticker on my license that says that I am. But my friend's Mom who is a nurse told me to take it off because of exactly what Mullet is talking about.

So I'm hedging my bets by remaining in the database, but not having a visible symbol of my donor status on my license. I think if you're in the database it's supposed to be confidential.

On the flip side of things, I've heard that sometimes cops are more lenient in giving tickets if your license has the donor sticker on it.

I'm a registered organ donor as well, and there's a little red heart on my license. Unfortunately, I can't take it off. It's not a sticker.

[Værn]

I'm an Organ Donor. I'm dead, I don't need my appendix anymore.

[rubah]

The first time I got a license and got asked the question, I said no automatically and then regretted it. Luckily two years passed and I didn't die, so when I had to get it renewed, I said yes.

I like ståle's system though.

[Big D]

I'm not an organ donor. I would like to be, but I'm selfish in the fact that if you're an organ donor they stop trying to heal you at a certain point so that your organs will still be viable for a donation.

That's why I like living in the civilised world, where saving the patient's life is the very top priority rather than the marketability of their corpse.

I'm a donor, and it's vaguely comforting to know that if I'm ever munted beyond repair I might still be useful to someone.

[Loony BoB]

I think in situations like Mulley's, they should only allow organs to be donated to other organ doners. It's horrendous that they'll let you die based on your donor-status.

[Jiro]

I don't like the idea of being cut up, but I will probably sign up for it once I can. If I don't think about it, it's fine. I know I'll be dead, but it's still disturbing to think about.

[Big D]

Anyone who ever gets an autopsy get "cut up" basically beyond recognition... with organ donation, the only real difference is that they don't put all the pieces back in again afterward.

[blackmage_nuke]

I dont like the idea of bits of me hanging around in different boxes or floating in jars (I know that doesnt happen but the thought creeps me out). I would do it if i could choose to only donate certain organs. I know it sounds ridiculus but when my family is at my funeral i dont want them to be looking at a hollow stuffed shell.

[Momiji]

While Mulley's point concerns me a bit, it's always been my desire to help people in a medical environment, and I plan to extend my career goal into that. Being an organ donor is kind of like going out with a bang, given I don't *literally* go out with a bang, and that my organs are worth using.

[Loony BoB]

That's the one thing I'd be against, actually. I wouldn't want to be a "get out of death free" card for a smoker or an alcoholic. Is there a way to be pick-and-choose-y about this sort of thing?

[Nominus Experse]

That's the one thing I'd be against, actually. I wouldn't want to be a "get out of death free" card for a smoker or an alcoholic. Is there a way to be pick-and-choose-y about this sort of thing?

As far as I know, it's all or nothing.

[Bunny]

That's the one thing I'd be against, actually. I wouldn't want to be a "get out of death free" card for a smoker or an alcoholic. Is there a way to be pick-and-choose-y about this sort of thing?

In order to be on the organ transplant list, you need to be clean of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs for a certain amount of time. They don't hand out organs to people who are resigning themselves to a possible early death and the medical field takes the organ donor list VERY seriously.

[Loony BoB]

Ah, that's okay then. I'm not one at the moment (that I know of) but maybe I'll register someday.

[Bunny]

I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but that's basically how they run it in the US. You could probably call up a local hospital and ask them a few questions about it just to be sure.

I think you're from Not-America but I forget sometimes.