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how do u feel about autopsies/organ donation

AmorRoark said:
^ What weirds you out about being donated for science? I'd prefer my body be used to help save lives in the future rather than randomly spread in the wind or in the ground.
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Being poked and prodded and cut in half just for kicks or to see how something works... I dunno, just weirds me out. Like I said though, maybe being around another six or more decades will change my mind.

joannie_mhm said:
How do you all feel about organ donation?
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I feel it should be an opt-out thing as well, BUT, there should be a screening process of sorts before they take any old organ. Esp. with the health/obesity crisis we have going on now (at least in the US). Someone gets a donated organ and is thrilled they're going to live, only to find out it's worse than their old one was due to years of being stressed with a shitty diet/lifestyle.
 
My best friend died earlier this year and while I was pretty sure of the cause of death anyway, when an autopsy was done on her, it confirmed certain things. It was hard having to wait 12 weeks for those results after she passed away though.

I'm of the thought that what happens to my body after I die is no consequence to me. I don't believe in a 'soul' as being anymore than an emergent property of a physical brain. Once that's gone, who cares about the body that held my brain for all that time.

I would be horrified if anyone I cared about had their body treated disrespectfully after they died, but I don't consider an autopsy, organ donation, a body donation for science or so forth disrespectful at all. A good friend's uncle died recently and his wish was that his body was donated to science - there was a comfort to his family in this, in that he'd kept on giving, even after death.

I personally can't see anything wrong with a body being donated for science and the opinion that this is somehow weird or wrong honestly baffles me.
 
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You don't have a choice if you're "found." My BF had an autopsy done after he was found in his bed. No trauma, but since he was found with basically the description of what I hear happens after an opiate overdose, they did an autopsy. Of course it was drugs, but his family had no choice in the matter.

I'd be cool with my body donated to science. WTF do I care? I'm dead. I won't know the difference.
 
i'll be dead and hopefully all of my organs will be harvested and doled out to those needing them, so i am not inclined to care about what happens afterwards.

except that i would prefer whatever is left to be freeze-dried and then composted.
 
I am not an organ donor.
I don't think I would accept an organ either. Survival of the fittest. If my body shuts down, it shuts down. It is my time to die.
I am not sure I would undergo cancer treatment either...unless the odds of beating it were very high.
 
^do you feel that organ transplant is somehow unnatural?

I have never hesitated to subscribe to donorship. I'd be happy to donate my bits and pieces if it could make a fine meal for my friends, let alone save a life.
 
Perpetual Indulgence said:
I am not an organ donor.
I don't think I would accept an organ either. Survival of the fittest. If my body shuts down, it shuts down. It is my time to die.
I am not sure I would undergo cancer treatment either...unless the odds of beating it were very high.
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So you would want to expire for the benefit of the gene pool?!

Just kidding. I respect everyone's views, but is there a particular reason you wouldn't be a donor?

BTW, my views are exactly the same on cancer treatment - can't see myself having it either unless chances of success were above about 40%.
 
If I am not taking organs, I am not giving them. It does seem unnatural to me to replace an organ.
If I had children, then I might not want to expire for the benefit of the gene pool.

Now I would take a bionic appendage :)
 
I absolutely respect that everyone's views on the subject of organ donation won't be the same as mine, but one of my cousins, Sammi, has cystic fibrosis. She was never allowed further than 10km from the hospital in the UK when she was growing up- she really had no life to speak of. One day, an organ match ws found - she recieved a double-lung transplant. The lungs took very well, but becaus of the load of drugs on her poor kidneys, she started suffering renal failure. Her father donated a kidney to her. Her lung transplant ws 8 years ago, her kidney transplant was 6 years ago today. She has now travelled the world, and is an accomplished professional photographer. She is an ambassador for the cystic fibrosis foundation in the UK and is a spokesperson for organ donation as well.

Here is my beautiful, inspirational cousin's story:

http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/newsroom/life_stories/story.jsp?id=5

Again, i don't want to preach and as i said, i respect all opinions and recognise that the subject of organ donation is a very personal one. I just wanted to share her story with you, and to say that if she'd not had the transplant, she could not have embarked on this amazing life she now leads, filled with love, and an appreciation for life that i can only just grasp <3 Every day is truly a gift for Sammi
 
I am more than happy to donate my organs after i pass, just like i would hope if i required an organ i would be able to be helped as well. So yeah, i have thought about this in the past and i am all for it. Why not save a life if i am able to?
 
that is an awesome story samadhi :)

i don't really care what happens to my body after i die. i am an organ donor and i would hope that my organs can help someone tho.
 
Bearlove said:
I'm quite surprised at the stance - ' I don't care I'm dead'. IMHO if you have a preference as to what you want doing to / with with your body when you die then you do care?
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in what way is saying "i don't care what happens" expressing a preference. indeed, it's explicitly not doing so...

alasdair
 
I don't really have much of an opinion on autopsys. Unless the death was suspicious, I don't see why you would do one. Or if it was going to help science in some way. For me, if someone kills me in some crazy way I would like them to be arrested, so they can cut me up all they need to. Other than that, unless I'm going to help science in some way, I don't really like the idea?

I'm a organ donor. Except for my eyes. I have very unusual eyes so I don't want to give those away. But everything else can go to someone else. I don't believe that my body is going to have a soul or anything in it when it dies and I'm not religious or spiritual. I would rather help someone than have all my pieces together to be burned or buried (I haven't really decided which one). I don't understand why someone wouldn't want to be an organ donor. I am, however, a donor and my body is excluded from being used for research. I don't like the idea of by body becoming some annonymous vessel in a research lab.
 
Cut me up dole me out...I don't care. Just don't put me in the ground. Make sure I am cremated, the thought of being left rotting in the ground just freaks me out. Plus, it's a waste of real estate and money.

On the other hand, My sister wants her body donated to a body farm for forensic research.

We both have agreed that no matter what other family members say we will honor our wishes.
 
I am an organ and tissue donor. I really don't care what they do with me, if there is anything left I want to be cremated or made into one of those life gems lol

In all seriousness when my little brother passed away when he was 9. the only thing that we were able to donate were his cornias. It brought me a huge comfort that someone out there has a piece of him.
 
i dont care if i'm autopsied

i'm fucking dead why would i care? i'm going into the ground anyways


and i'm an organ donor. i'd rather not be selfish and try preserve something that's already gone and hope my working organs save the life of someone in need


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to anyone who isn't an organ donor. if you were hospitalized tomorrow and needed an organ transplant, you wouldn't accept someone else's? think about that
 
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