One such hot potato issue being debated is a payment to the donor or donor's family.I wonder how that would work? =D
I wonder how that would work? =D
TC
The proposed law does not require mandatory organ donation. The proposal is that rather than signing a consent form allowing organ donation, you would have to sign a consent form refusing organ donation.
Which is, by definition, de facto consent FOR donation. Don't sign the form and your organs are harvested, under penalty of prosecution for non-participation, whether you intended for them to be or not. That consitutes mandatory participation.
I am a donor but I signed up by choice. Forced donation is non of the governments damn business and they can, and if I have anything to do with it will, butt the hell out.
Brad
I have a real problem with "donating" organs. I find it curious that the only person who doesn't get paid in the chain that enables a successful organ transplant is the one who donates the organ. Everyone else gets paid. Am I missing something? Why not make organ payments part of the deceased's estate? Seems to me Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and others have made a reasonable case of paying for organs as opposed to donating them.
Therein lies my problem with it; the doctors don't donate their services for free, so why should the person providing the most critical part of the process not be compensated? Given the cost of the procedure, a few thousand extra tacked on for the donor wouldn't even be noticed by the recipient.
Once you're dead, value is meaningless.
You are dead, you organ is either going to rot away or get used.
That would depend entirely upon how the form is worded and the role of the family, if any. I doubt very much that if you verbally withdraw consent for donation, the organs will be harvested nonetheless, even if you sign a form. I doubt very much that if you revoke the 'opt-out' form that you will be a forced organ donor.
Even for those of us who sign up to be donors, the usual and customary practice is to ask the family for permission. If they refuse, your wishes to donate are usually ignored. In an 'opt-out' system, I suspect that the family will still be asked.
So I assume you're saying the donor should be paid beforehand, while he or she is still alive? Well then, your kidneys for example wouldn't really be yours. No more alcohol for you. How about your heart that has been purchased by another. You traded it's value for money. I hope you don't like eating fast food or drinking soda or beer. The health of your cardiovascular system is no longer only your concern. You damage your own heart after selling to to someone, you are destroying their goods.
You are dead, you organ is either going to rot away or get used.
^^^^Uhhh, not to rain on your [tinfoil] parade, but the OP was describing proposed legislation in New York state. Not Federal law.
Just a question about an urban legend I heard years ago: Who pays for removal and handling of the organs? I had someone tell me years ago that sometimes the families of the donors get stuck with that cost. I've never heard anything about that part.
The insurance company of the organ recipient pays for the costs of transplantation, which includes the harvesting, preparation and transport of the organs. The total costs are well up into the six figures.Thanks. Are there ever cases were organs that can be donated are removed, but no donor is there? I guess that would be a good thing.
Thanks. Are there ever cases were organs that can be donated are removed, but no donor is there? I guess that would be a good thing.
I have read of people in Seattle waiting for a heart that have moved down to the Bay Area, where the waiting times are shorter for a heart.
Is it legally possible to request in your will that your body be sold on the black markey? :laugh:I'm going to have a Viking funeral when I die, with a proper burning long boat and everything =D.
With this thread, I can hardly believe no-one has posted this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aclS1pGHp8o&feature=related) yet.
^^^ Huh. I wonder what is involved in the donating of the corpse to science such that you have to pay $ 2725 for it.
The embalming and body prep.
Another idea is to put organ donors on the priority list should they themselves ever need a transplant.That's not a bad idea.
Imagine if a kidney or somesuch was transferred from patient to patient over a very long period of time...
I seriously wonder how long one could keep that up? ???
That's why you ask for the lifetime warranty.....I was thinking more along the lines of, say, 200 years from now, someone has a kidney installed whose original... host... was born 200+ years ago, and as time passed, and people died for whatever reason, it kept getting transplanted. =)
Having seen a number of people die while waiting for various transplants, I am in favor of any legal and ethical means to increase donation. One such hot potato issue being debated is a payment to the donor or donor's family. Another idea is to put organ donors on the priority list should they themselves ever need a transplant. I myself have been a donor for 32 years now.
I assume that if one has a proper will etc stating the preferrence to donate, one's family can't stop it correct?
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So if I have a legal document stating my wishes, the hospital will still ask my family and might go against my wishes? What if I'm estranged from my family and explicitly state in my living will that they not be consulted?