QOTW: Donating your organs
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| Thu, 04-16-2009 - 6:35pm |
Is this something that you want to do, or think you might, or have already registered to do?
Here's an interesting article about how people think.... and what the do or don't do.
Survey Shows Many Want to Donate Organs, But Few Do
April 16 (HealthDay News) -- Most Americans say they want to donate their organs, but only 38 percent of licensed drivers are registered to do so, a new survey shows.
Nearly 72 percent of Americans said they wanted to donate their organs after death, even if their family disagrees, according to an online survey of 5,100 U.S. adults conducted in February by Astellas Pharma US and Donate Life America.
That's far more than those who have actually registered through the DMV or state donor registries, said Donate Life America Chair Sara Pace Jones.
"The number of people awaiting organ transplants has climbed to more than 100,000, and an average of 18 people die each day waiting for available organs," Pace Jones said. "It is more important than ever for those who support donation to legally document those wishes."
The survey also found misperceptions and confusion about organ donation and registration.
Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of people who say they are undecided, reluctant or do not wish to donate were not sure they would be an acceptable donor. Often, age or health conditions do not prevent people from being potential donors. Donation screening only occurs before organs and tissue are recovered for transplant.
Only half (50 percent) of respondents believed that doctors will try as hard to save their life if they know of their wish to be an organ donor.
Just under half (44 percent) mistakenly thought that in the United States there is a black market in which people can buy or sell organs or tissue.
Only 43 percent of respondents understood that it is impossible for a brain-dead person to recover from his or her injuries.
"There is a real crisis taking place with regards to organ availability in this country, and dispelling commonly held misperceptions and increasing the public's trust of the donation and transplant system is paramount when it comes to solving it," said Pace Jones.
SOURCE: Donate Life America, news release, April 13, 2009


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My driver's license has a mark on it meaning that they can have anything and everything they want.
Oh , by all means....I want to donate any & all, that is wanted
Yep I'm an organ donor and its signed on my driver license.
Granny to Caleb and Scotia
As it states on my Driver's license ..
Helping others is the only way for me ..
In my lifetime I have seen how it is the only way to be/go :)
 
Excellent thread, thank you for posting this as it is important to me too.
i am an organ donor...they can take whatever they can use. what will i need it for? to feed the worms? i'd rather save a life if i can:O)
it is noted on my drivers license and my family all know that is my wish. my whole family are in the organ donor program.
For awhile I did have it marked on my driver's license to take what they wanted, but then I heard about how that can mean your skin can be used or your body can be used for experiments like crash tests and other creepy stuff, so I took the permission off.
But when dh and I had our
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Registered to Donate on my Driver's Liscense .... and should probably sign up for the state data base .....
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