If you need urgent support, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. To contact our Crisis Messenger (open 24/7) text THEMIX to 85258.
Options
Essential support for under 25s
Essential support for under 25s
Take a look around and enjoy reading the discussions. If you'd like to join in, it's really easy to register and then you'll be able to post. If you'd like to learn what this place is all about, head here.
Comments
Your family can still object to it, yes. That is why it is important to tell them of your wishes to be a donor.
To join the register, https://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/servlet/mydetailsservlet
Theres no need to worry about it, you have the choice and its nobody else's business what the reasons are.
do you think your opinion would change if you were ever in a position where you, or a loved one, needed a transplant?
Honestly, no.
Might sound highly selfish, and maybe it is, but it really isn't something that i could bear the thought of happening to me. I might be dead, but at the same time i want everything i've lived with all my life to die with me. I can't really put it into words too well, but its just a thing i have.
In a society where such a great fuss was created over the Alder Hey organ retention scandal, I do not think we could justify an opt out system.
it's like the one chance everyone gets to do something truly amazing for potentially loads of other people. and the best part is that you don't have to even do anything. apart from die, which you'll have done anyway. you won't even know.
i guess the way i look at it is: what if it were my husband/mother/baby girl who could have been saved by an organ that someone chose not to give. what if it were me? what if i died and my organs could save someone else's wife/dad/son, and i chose not to be a donor, and all those people died.
Honestly I was litterally bouncing around the office the day Jake texted me to say he was going to be OK, I can't imagine how chuffed his close friends were and if someone hadn't donated thier organs I would have been crying rather than smiling.
Am I right though, with things like kidney donation the person doesn't have to be dead to donate? Would people be happy going through surgery while they're still around to give someone else a kidney?
I only have one kidney so I can't do that, but if I could I think I'd go through with an operation if I knew I could save someone elese life. I mean I've been through operations before, they're no fun but not really too bad and if I knew I was saving someones life by doing it I wouldn't mind.
i know i dont know you, but as ive been in that situation you've mentioned its horrible i know, but if your only chance for survival is for a transplant for whatever organ then surely you'd go for it wouldnt you?
i didnt like the idea of having someone elses organs inside me but it was my only chance for survival so i had to take it, i certainly wasnt going to refuse the operation and die.
if you were in the same situation i was in then i'm sure you'd accept the operation so that you can still be alive....
as i said before i know i dont know you, but it seems silly that you would refuse your only chance of continuing with your life.
;<
Hi,
Im completely new to this..my first post! Afraid they most probably wont be able to use Jake's liver again...transplanted organs only have a limited life. After you have received a transplant there is always the remote possibly that the transplanted organ may need replacing again in the future...therefore the chance of it still being viable for a third user are slim to none.
I, personally, would love to be an organ donor and am on the register etc...however the chances of you being suitable are so slim. Firstly your organs have to be suitable, then if they are, you must be kept artificially alive until they can operate, or be operated on immediately to remove those organs, before the tissues begin to die...and who hand on heart could say that in the first throes of shock and grief, they would be able to competently agree to the donation of their loved ones organs?
Sorry to be so depressing!...i think organ donation should be staight forward, about individual choice...unfortunately the problems with consent etc make it a little more complex.