I need some good concrete reasons why I should NOT donate my organs please..?

Question

I have never been an organ donor; and the only reason has been quite a conspiracy theory: "if I go to the hospital for whatever reason, and I happen to have the perfect organ that president whoever or mr. important whoever needs, they might take mine and let me die like the peasant that I am.... I know this sounds rediculous, but that is why I am utilizing this wonderful yahoo answers..... PRO ORGAN DONORS STAY AWAY! :) I just want people who are anti organ donation

Answer 1

My reason for not donating is very plain. My dad die almost for years ago due to non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis. He passed all the test they gave him to see if he was a viable candidate. The doctors and insurance company never expected him to.
They still refused him because he was too old (67 at the time). If he was rich like Mickey Mantle, who drank like a fish and got another liver due to his celebrity, he would have gotten one. He never really got to know his then 15 month-old grandson, who will never get the chance to know how wonderful he was. So in plain English, I will never donate an organ to anybody, screw the doctors and the rich ba$tards who are the only ones who get them anyway.

Answer 2

hi, first of all i would just say, that before the doctors can take anyones organs (who previously agreed obviously) they have to get at least 2 neurlogists to confirm the donor to be is clinically brain dead, and regardless of whether or not you donate, the life support machine is all that is keepong you alive. If you donate, then you help save lives, if you don't donate then you still die and that is all really there is to it. I understand your worries, and it is up to everyone to decided whether or not they want to donate. If you decide not to, then that is your choice and no doctor has the right to go against your wishes.
I just want to share with you that my husband had cardiomyopathy at 23 and suffered in agony for 7 years. He recieved a heart transplant a few years ago and you would not believe the diffrence it has made. We have a 2, 3 and 8 year old children and if he had not had the heart transplant then my children would not know their dad now. He was given no longer than 2 years to live in 2004. He was one of the lucky ones. He developed cardiomyopathy (enlarged heart) by getting a cold. He was fit and healthy before but he got a cold and could not shake it off. He later was told he had a bad heart.
His consultants told us that you are more likely to need a transplant than be a donor, and he was very much of the opinion, that people who would be happy to recieve an organ if their live was in the balance, should also be happy to give.
I respect every ones beliefs and views on transplant. But i think that before you make your mind up 100% please consider how much good you can do after your death. I once read that ny just one person donating, they can save and improve the lives of nearly 100 people. That is amazing!
I would also like to say a big thankyou to everyone who is on the register, and to those who have lost and donated, because without people like you my husband would be dead now and my kids would be without their daddy.

Answer 3

So I am for donating organs. Drs who try to pull that would definatley get sued by relatives or stuff. It is just not worth the risk and the media would be all over the story of how the person who donated the organ died. However in answer to your question. It is not just organs that can be used but skin and bones. When this is done although it is replaced with tubing or pipe or whatever it still affects the look of the body. They also can use tissue and such for testing and experiments. It is much easier for relatives to say no to everything in the difficult time than to try to remember and follow all the specifics of your desires of what to use and how it can be used and such so you are saying no to everything.

Answer 4

So, if you needed organ donation, you would refuse and die happily or would you accept?

Either way the only concrete reason you need is "no" and they will respect that, this is not some Robin Cook book and they won't take organs without you being either dead and giving permissions or do a living donor transplant with your permission, it all boils down to YOUR PERMISSION...

Answer 5

Why don't you leave the organs where they are and donate bone marrow instead. Much more useful, and you can make more.

Organ donation is good for you if you expect to die prematurely and want to pass the organs onto someone. On the other hand, the medical students are running out of cadavers to practice on.

If you are anti-donation, what chances do you think that your organs will have of being accepted by the receiver body?

Good luck with the donation. Bless you for wanting to do it.

Answer 6

Relatives like to think the deceased is in a state of peace & rest, the body becoming a shrine before burial/cremation

Relatives like to get the body away from the 'cold' hospital environment where the deceased is viewed as 'a piece of meat with a couple valuable bits we can grab'.

The similarities to stealing a dead mans jewellery is too much to take for the loved ones who have more than enough on their plate at this time

Answer 7

Although I believe highly in organ donation and the miracles they perform, I too struggle with myself as I am not currently a donor.

My deep seated reasoning is that I wonder "what if" I get into a car accident and they claim I'm dead by testing my pulse and whisk me into surgery removing my organs and such and I wasn't actually dead.

You may have heard of cases where they THOUGHT someone was dead, but they weren't. Some people turn up alive under those sheets in the morgue! Scary!

If I KNEW 100% sure that I was absolutely dead before they try to cut them out I would be OK with it... but you can't ever be absolutely sure.

Does anyone else think this way about organ donation?

Answer 8

Im not pro donation as such but, what you are describing would never happen. Docters take an oath to treat everyone equaly, if they didn't do you think they would even let drugys through the door?!

Seriosly if you need a reason to only one you 'need' is that you don't want to donate.

Answer 9

No I don`t agree with it,Linnea 3 you can`t be so niave that you think the doctors seriously give a damn they all stick together and do what they want without getting caught.my father died in hospital under treatment for cancer,the hospital had to do a post mortem but needed my moms autherisation wich she agreed to,with the understanding that they didn`t touch my fathers brain .It might sound a little bit funny but it was my moms wishes, one of the nurses lrt it drop that they had not found any cancer in the brain after 8months of asking the admited to removing his brain and sent a writen apology they had previously totaly denied it until there solicitor sorted it so they could not be brought to task for there actions.
there are many more stories like this happening every day in the NHS, do you think they would be bothered about taking some one s kidney or eyes or heart? NO.

Answer 10

I hope you never have a car crash or something serious wrong with you
I also am scared by donation, but I'm aware that one day I could need someones help,
So if I go off to meet my maker, I'd prefer to know that if I could help someone then so be it, cos that's me~
They can have whatever they want except my eyes.