Should I not get to say who can and cannot get my organs?

Question

After a really bad exerience where I really felt that the whole society had let me down, I had decided not to be organ donor for my license renewal.
Decency is hard to kill do today when I renewed my licence, I did decide to be an organ donor but I asked if I could specify who can or cannot get my organs and they said, 'no'.
I would not want a drunk who has fried his God given liver to get mine - even if he is a movie star or a country singer.
Similarly I would not want Drunks, Junkies, dead-beat fathers, Drug-dealers, Terrorists, Rapists, Pedofiles or Welfare Parasites -and of course trial attornies to get any of my organs...I don't care which race, sex, or nationality or ethnicity the recipient is - just not a degenerate!
Should I not have a choice given by law to decide who should or should not get MY ORGANs after I die?

Answer 1

I think you should have a say so of who gets your organs, after all they are legally your organs. But then again after you die and can't really fight for who gets what, the people who do decide who & where your organs go could tell you that those degenerates you mentioned above won't get your organs, but then turn around and give them to the degenerates anyway. What can you say your dead! So it doesn't matter to them!

Answer 2

The thought of donating your organs is supposed to be a good and noble thing to do. When you choose your take away the opportunity for God to work his miracles in your live and the life of the recipient,one of those drunks could change the lives of 10 other drunks and therefore spare other lives, you took that chance away. Think about it a little more.

Answer 3

I think once you die, you relinquish ownership of your organs. However, I think that when UNOS ranks organ recipients (or when the hospital does its recipient screening), they do consider things like lifestyle. So, an 24 year old in liver failure and otherwise perfect health, who does not drink or smoke may be ranked higher than a 24 year old in liver failure who is a chronic drinker.

Basically, they have a hard enough time trying to find one organ match. They don't want to give an organ to someone who is going to need another one in 10 years.

Answer 4

It would be nice to know that your organs are going to someone who really needs it for a good cause and not just because they ruined the one they were given, but the problem becomes, usually when it comes time to donate organs...your dead. After that with the system thats in place you dont really have any control over it. But I definently agree with you on this one and would like to see something along these lines be developed.

Answer 5

I agree. I don't want my kidneys going to somebody who can't spell "paedophile" for example. Hell, I don't want a kidney from somebody who can't spell "paedophile". Would you feel the same way in reverse? If you needed a kidney transplant would you say: "Hold on a minute there, doc. Was this guy a Boy Scout who loved his mother - but not too much, not in a creepy way?'' Or would you take Ted Bundy's kidney?
Look, we give medical treatment to people who need medical treatment. We don't give medical treatment to people because they are nice to small animals. It's because they are sick. Sometimes nuns get sick, sometimes serial killers get sick. Or have you got a downer on nuns too?
Give your organs away or don't give your organs away. What are you going to do with them, anyway?

Answer 6

In most cases the recipient does not meet the above listed criteria. However , should a recipient have to convince people he/she is good enough to be allowed a chance to live?

Answer 7

its not really up to you if the doctors really need to give your organs to a dieing person they have to, but i think its really great that you are thinking of all the possiblities, but remeber it takes a good person to be wiling to do anyting for others, and to donate your organs to a bad person or wonderful person takes guts!!! and organs