Originally Posted by gazzae (Post 35005964)

If you’re sick and need a transplant then you should only get one though the donor scheme if you are registered as a donor. If you haven’t then tough luck, you better hope a relative or friend have an organ to spare.

Originally Posted by gazzae (Post 35006009)

Won't somebody think of the children :rolleyes:

Once someone is old enough to decide for themselves (while children can join the donor scheme it still requires parent/guardian permission until they are 18) and they choose not to join the scheme then they should forfeit any right to receive an organ from the scheme. Sure it’s not fair, but since when is burying healthy organs when people are crying out for them fair?

Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 35006076)

IMHO playing the equivalent of tit of tat to decide whether someone can be considered a suitable recipient for a donated organ is a very dangerous route to take.

I can understand someone being refused a transplant if they would be actively still putting the new organ at risk. A heavy smoker who doesn't attempt to give up smoking needing a new lung is a simplistic example, but with holding a transplant because you haven't put your own body forward? What if you nip in quickly and register once you find you need a transplant? Would there have to be a qualifying period or maybe, no transplant if you registered after the condition was diagnosed, or, you would have to go to the bottom of the list regardless of how serious your condition was.

Being in the position of needing a transplant in order to live is a nightmare scenario for anyone, being made to pay with your life for making a wrong choice is inhumane.

Originally Posted by Flyboy (Post 35006057)

That would not be very fair. It is unlikely that anyone who has a need for a donor organ, that they would be in a position to offer one up in replacement. If a child is born with a dickey kidney, they hardly have the option to decide they will give up their heart if the want a transplant.

Originally Posted by Flyboy (Post 35006057)

What, wait until they are eighteen to become eligible to receive a donated organ?

Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 35006076)

IMHO playing the equivalent of tit of tat to decide whether someone can be considered a suitable recipient for a donated organ is a very dangerous route to take.

I can understand someone being refused a transplant if they would be actively still putting the new organ at risk. A heavy smoker who doesn't attempt to give up smoking needing a new lung is a simplistic example, but with holding a transplant because you haven't put your own body forward? What if you nip in quickly and register once you find you need a transplant? Would there have to be a qualifying period or maybe, no transplant if you registered after the condition was diagnosed, or, you would have to go to the bottom of the list regardless of how serious your condition was.

Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 35006076)

Being in the position of needing a transplant in order to live is a nightmare scenario for anyone, being made to pay with your life for making a wrong choice is inhumane.

Originally Posted by gazzae (Post 35006146)

As martyh said make the system opt out. If you opt out from being a donor then you forfeit any option to receive a donation through the organ donar scheme.
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indeed ,opting out of a default system requires a reason and that reason would most likely be an objection to the principle of organ donation which inturn would mean that the prospective recipient would refuse the transplant anyway so yes under these criteria your system would have some merit