Not an organ donor, make no moral judgement about whether folk deserve my organs or not. I understand that a dead organ is no good to prospective recipients - several hours dead at least anyway - but find it hard to believe there is legal justification for taking an organ from a living individual, even if the prognosis is grim. People do, afterall survive many years in non responsive vegetative states and no one turns off life support or harvests their organs.
Where did you come by this information?
If I am buggered and on life support and these people are good enough to turn it off for me then they can have whatever they want.
Mr Burns, if you do a quick Search, you'd see there's an existing thread on this.
Mods: if you could merge these threads, that would be good.
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I think they turn it off AFTER they take the goodies, thats the creepy bit.
Mr B. Could you post a link or a quote to back up your suggestion that organs are taken from a live donor? I doubt this very much, at least in Australia.
In some third world countries people do sell e.g. one kidney, purely for the money.
That is not going to happen within the Australian health system.
What does organ donation involve?
Organ donation is more likely when a person has died on a ventilator machine in a hospital's intensive care unit (ICU). Often this is due to stroke or a catastrophic injury caused by a motor vehicle accident. Even after brain death, blood will be artificially pumped around the body to keep the organs healthy. In brain death, the brain can no longer function at all, and there is no possibility of recovery. The brainstem is also be dead, and there is no blood flow to the brain.
A person may also be able to donate if he or she has suffered irreversible injuries and will not recover. After treatment is ceased, the heart will stop beating and the blood will stop circulating around the body. After death, the body will be prepared for organ retrieval.
Two medical practitioners will perform tests to confirm brain death in a patient. The family of the deceased will be consulted about the possibility of donation. If the family gives consent, then the members of the Standing Committee of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) will find a suitable recipient. They use specific criteria to decide how to allocate organs. The organs are then harvested from the deceased in exactly the same way as any other surgical procedure. This does not significantly alter the body's physical shape or appearance. Under Australian law, the donor's family will not be able to meet the recipient. This is to respect the privacy of both parties involved.
For more information about the process of donation and transplantation, see Heart Transplant, Lung Transplant, Liver Transplant, and Renal Transplantation.
Would you even know... If they want to pull some parts out good luck to them I wont be needing them. Just pull the plug when your done.
ROFL!!!If thats the case it would be 2 in one night, I'll be accused of thread copying, which results in a penalty of receiving a printed copy of robots best posts, a very short printout but painful non the less.
Mr B, where do you get the idea that you're still alive when organ retrieval occurs? In the excerpt you provided, it clearly says it happens when the patient is brain dead.
Brain dead but the body still lives, I'm not entirely convinced that brain dead is actually dead in any case they take you apart while you're still breathing.
I was assured emphatically that there are very strict processes in place that removes any potential conflict of interest.
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I was assured emphatically that there are very strict processes in place that removes any potential conflict of interest.
Well, just words and as we know things can happen.
If some organs are needed badly, even without too much imagination we can think of what can happen!
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