[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by joglynne

All my family are on the donor register and also carry a donor cards.

I don't feel comfortable with the idea of incentives being offered, anything that links money and donated organs together just feeds the suspicions of people who don't trust the ethics of those people in control of the harvesting and allocation process.

I would like organ donations to be on an opt out basis as I feel that with more donors there would be an increase in the number of organs available and consequently less desperation find a matching organ. Hopefully this would then reduce the suspicions of wrongdoing and manipulation voiced against the medical profession and people in a position to pay or queue jump.

This arrangement would also negate the need for any kind of manipulation being used as scaremongering, by the media and Hollywood. If there is a surplus of organs available, there would no visible need to jump queues or bribe someone for an organ.

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Originally Posted by martyh

I don't think that's what he is saying ,Masque seems to feel the same as a lot of people do ,in that the system at present is wide open to abuse at worst ,and favouritism at best ,and until the system is cleaned up then people will continue to be put off
On the other hand though it is a good thing that the ethics behind organ donating is being discussed as a few tweaks to the rules could mean 1000's more donors and lets be honest how many people actually think about donating organs or blood whereas being paid in some form for it would put a whole new perspective on it for 1000's of people

I think too many people watch too much television.