Comments on: Getting your organs tied up in red tape

By: Blog roundup « The Blog of Fleeced

Blog roundup « The Blog of Fleeced — Tue, 15 May 2007 04:52:10 +0000

[...] Gruen discusses the red tape of organ donation over at Club [...]

By: derrida derider

derrida derider — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:33:57 +0000

Yeah, I’m always amazed that people think the family should have any say in it – whose body is it anyways once you’re dead?

I think refusing permission for a dead body to be used to save a living one is a deeply immoral act – too wicked to be excused by grief.

By: Darlene

Darlene — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:00:46 +0000

It should be done as a matter of course. No need for cards that way.

By: mangoman

mangoman — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:55:21 +0000

Getting on to the register and getting a card seemed to me an unnecessarily bureacratic process, having to fill out a form to get on to the register and then another one to confirm that I wanted to go on to the register, apart from having to remember to post the letters.

I thought it was all rather stupid – what bits can you take with you, after all – but was forced to review that position when I watched my, until then, rational family deal with the issue of organ removal from a deceased loved one. It happened but it was handy to have such a specific prior approval in place.

By: Bannerman

Bannerman — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:26:00 +0000

You got a card??! Think yourself lucky. I and Mrs Bannerman have been on the register for quite some time now and all we got was a letter saying thanks.

By: Caz

Caz — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:35:05 +0000

While waiting to collect my mobile phone from the repair shop, the tech unsavvy customer in the next line asked for assistance in saving/downloading all his information before handing over the phone.

Instead of saying ‘that would take too much of my time’, she told him that the Privacy Act prevented her from viewing his photos/music etc.

Congratulations on getting the card BTW, odd to see they are still using that list. Perhaps it is so heavy drinkers can alert the authorities to the fact that some organs may be very well used.

Otherwise I think it is starnge that someone could be happy for the part of the body to be reused but not say their eyes or pancreas.

By: Sacha

Sacha — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:12:02 +0000

When I’m gone, I won’t need any bits and pieces so if they can be used to help other people, then use them by all means! I’ve never understood why, at least previously, the deceased person’s family had a veto over an individual’s wishes about whether organs could be donated. It seemed selfish.

I told my parents a few years ago that given the silly veto rule that then existed (I don’t know if it still exists) I wanted my organs to be donated if that situation arose.

I don’t understand the privay thing either.