General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Synbios459 on August 11, 2007, 11:40:12 PM
Title: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: Synbios459 on August 11, 2007, 11:40:12 PM
I read a thing saying that if you're an organ donor and you get in a wreck or something they'll let you die is that true? I am an organ donor but if this is true I want to be taken off.
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 11, 2007, 11:41:03 PM
It's 100% true
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: abrader on August 11, 2007, 11:43:07 PM
sick and true
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: Ichirou on August 11, 2007, 11:48:08 PM
Yeah, it's true. Fucked up, isn't it?
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: brawndolicious on August 11, 2007, 11:50:31 PM
if you're braindead or if you're unconscious?
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: Ichirou on August 11, 2007, 11:52:00 PM
Both.
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: Synbios459 on August 11, 2007, 11:59:08 PM
how can i get taken off?
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: Ichirou on August 12, 2007, 12:10:02 AM
You can't. Better hope you don't get into an accident!
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: TVC15 on August 12, 2007, 12:12:48 AM
One time I went to the ER with a broken thumb. They looked at my driver's license, saw I was a donor, and hit me in the back of the head with a hammer and tried to rip out my kidneys, but I got up and punched the doctor and ran out of the hospital and made a splint out of popsicle sticks. True story.
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on August 12, 2007, 12:14:58 AM
Only if you're black.
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: TVC15 on August 12, 2007, 12:15:38 AM
Also, Synbios, just so someone gives you the right answer:
Also, if your parents/next of kin don't know your wishes, you won't be an organ donor even if you are signed up. Next of kin has to give consent in most circumstance. Make sure people close to you know what your wishes are.
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 12, 2007, 01:03:39 AM
nobody wants black people organs, except the obvious one.
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 12, 2007, 01:05:29 AM
The brain?
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 12, 2007, 01:07:40 AM
:o
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Post by: Flannel Boy on August 12, 2007, 01:14:35 AM
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Post by: drozmight on August 12, 2007, 05:31:13 AM
This sounds great, cause I kinda want them to let me die if I'm that fucked up.
Title: Re: Is it true that if you're an organ donor they'll let you die?
Post by: Ichirou on August 13, 2007, 05:05:54 AM
I have organ donor listed in my driver's license, but I really should let my family members know about my wishes. In all seriousness, there's a pretty dire need for more and more organ donors. I believe there's a few European countries where you are automatically considered an organ donor unless you opt out. That seems to me to be the most practical way of going about the whole thing, otherwise, so many perfectly good organs that might save lives are just going to go to waste.