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I'm in the market for a new kidney :)

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How heartwarming ;)

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I am on the list, and have informed my family (and gained their agreement) that anything that can help someone, can be taken/transplanted.

If I can help someone after I've gone, why not?

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Same here - I'll have no use for the damn organs if I'm dead. I doubt anyone would get much use out of my eyes, though - the left retina's been repaired, and I have glaucoma - a rare form, I'm told (pigment dispersion syndrome). Of course it is. It's also a form that's supposed to quit in your forties...I've had it throughout my forties, I was too young to get it in theory, and it's showing no signs of quitting. Oh well. :(

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lol I know :)

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I feel that I'm torn on the subject, on one hand my late father had 2 transplants, and I will need one soon enough but the thought of being chopped up (extreme view I know) to donate seems a bit horrid to me.

But on the other hand if I'm willing to accept someone else's organs then I would have to ignore those feelings and to accepting that would be wrong not to donate anything I can. When the time comes I don't think I could refuse. Saying that I also understand that I could be limited in what I can and can't donate due to hereditary disorders.

Also to see the amount of people here that that is all for it, is very comforting and hopefully opinions are changing on the subject. I do wish that next of kin only have a limited say in the matter when consent has already been given. Though I fully understand their situation.

I have no opinion on the opt in or out situation, I can see both sides of it and I can't say if it's a good thing or not.

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A law that takes ownership of your body whether it is just for parts or not is just plain wrong. Soylent Green ?everyone from the second you leave home to go to nursery for the first time society has its hands on you a minimum of 12 years is school then work 40 hours a week most of your life and save on the off chance you aint to screwed up in your 60s to enjoy the rest of what is your life now society is trying to say your body is no longer yours although they have already done that by saying you can not smoke weed etc

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Bit of a difference between helping others to have a better life after you're dead and becoming foodstuffs, IMHO.

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next step though Hugh you can not deny population is exploding and food shortages will happen. Tie it in with global warming temperature increases around the equator increasing the amount of arid land

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Aren't you arguing for the state to be less harsh on the housing allowance in the other thread? That's asking society to help people and this is society asking us to help too....

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That whole statement I made was in respect to them making you opt out in Wales.They are by default taking ownership of your body and that is not right

And I want to the state to realise what it is doing to people and stop using the poor as an excuse

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The Holby story was out of order over something like this, putting the subject donations in a bad light just for a storyline is just plain wrong.

But I do also have the same concerns as you though.

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Excellent idea, being paid to help society. Maybe it can be paid weekly or monthly and called something snappy like 'benefits' :rolleyes:

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LOL I think what Derek is trying to say is, that you already do get paid for your body parts when you die. by way of 'not having to work benefits' :)

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Or paid in kind via your use of the NHS, roads etc.