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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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 Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:44 am Post subject: The organ donation poll |
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Change law on organ donation, doctors say
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Every adult in the UK would be legally required to decide whether to donate their organs after death, under a radical solution to the critical shortage of organs for transplant put forward by the country's oldest royal medical college. The ethics committee of the 500-year-old Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has called for an examination of "mandated choice" as a means of boosting the supply of organs, the shortage of which is leading to more than 1,000 avoidable deaths a year.
The development comes as the first UK-wide campaign to promote organ donation is launched today to boost the numbers on the donor register. Research shows that while 96 per cent of people said they would accept a transplant if needed, only a quarter (27 per cent) have volunteered to donate their organs after death. Almost half (45 per cent) said they would like to donate but had not got round to adding their names to the register.
Mandated choice is an approach to public policy under which people are required by law to state a choice. It is employed in Australia, where citizens are compelled to vote in parliamentary elections. The RCP's ethics committee says the same approach should be considered in organ donation. People would be required by law to answer a question on whether they would donate their organs after their death and their choice would be registered on a national database.
The RCP says the question could be put at the time that adults register to vote on the electoral roll and should have three possible answers: yes, no, or ask my relatives. The third, default option, reflects the status quo.
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youtuber
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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Although I clicked YES, I haven't signed my donor card or discussed it with my family. Kind of a tough thing to bring up at the dinner table.
I have received an achilles tendon and cartilage from a donor and those parts were inserted in my knee. So I am very thankful for that. I guess I am part American now? 
Interestingly enough, if kidneys were allowed to be bought and sold on a free market, that would theoretically drastically reduce the shortage of kidneys. That's according to my economics professor anyways.
KIDNEYS KIDNEYS! GET YER ICE COLD KIDNEYS HERE! ONLY $29,999! |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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I have no qualms with giving that stuff away if I'm dead.
Take it, I hope it helps someone. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| By all means help yourself to my swiss-cheesed liver and clogged heart. |
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mekku
Joined: 22 Jul 2006
Location: daegu, korea
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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it seems to be a touchy subject with many people...
'i want to be buried whole', 'i don't want to be cut open' and so on.
... as for me, take my organs. what will i care when i'm dead? it can help numbers of people and obviously i'll have no need for them. it's a shame so many people expect to receive an organ if in need but have no intention to share theirs. |
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ropebreezy
Joined: 27 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| In CA it's pretty easy. When you sign up for your driver's license they ask you whether you want to be an organ donor. Tick yes and there's an organ donor symbol on your card so if and when they find your dead body they know to harvest your organs right away (provided your license is on your person, which is usually the case). |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| In CA it's pretty easy. When you sign up for your driver's license they ask you whether you want to be an organ donor. Tick yes and there's an organ donor symbol on your card so if and when they find your dead body they know to harvest your organs right away (provided your license is on your person, which is usually the case). |
Yeah, we've had the same in Iowa for something like 25 years. |
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