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Give it a rest JL the thread has gone on long enough now & IF you need a new liver or some other spare part put an ad on the net some where maybe face book ? & the family of some poor soul might see it & offer you one .

 

But this thread is dead & going nowhere

Regards & good luck Pole Star.

 

More insightful and incisive input from you then Pole Star.

 

J.

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Penelope - I could be forgiven for thinking that you are another school person posting on here. I note that wit is not amongst your talents.

 

Perhaps you could throw some heavyweight input to any discussion. I don't recall you making any significant contribution at all.

 

Feel free to snipe - it does seem to be your forte.

 

 

A little light reading for your friend:-

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2358597/Woman-opened-eyes-doctors-New-York-hospital-began-organs-donation-believing-brain-dead.html

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Penelope - I could be forgiven for thinking that you are another school person posting on here. I note that wit is not amongst your talents.

 

Perhaps you could throw some heavyweight input to any discussion. I don't recall you making any significant contribution at all.

 

Feel free to snipe - it does seem to be your forte.

 

 

A little light reading for your friend:-

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2358597/Woman-opened-eyes-doctors-New-York-hospital-began-organs-donation-believing-brain-dead.html

What was the point of posting that article? Did you read anything past the headline first? That was a case where the FAMILY gave consent to switch off life support and allow her organs to be donated - that is the same system that we have at the moment and has nothing whatsoever to do with the proposals for Wales.
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FalconFN - yes I did read it. It was just another aspect which I hadn't considered. No need to use upper case - it does tend to suggest you haven't got a point to make.

 

Then again - positions are established fairly early on and debate rarely changes opinions on here. The usual suspect(s) post the facts and nothing else matters. The odd, and I mean odd, friend pops up to support them without any thought to whether it makes sense.

 

Some things don't change.

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I carry a donor card stating all my parts are up for grabs, all my family know my wishes so job done.

 

BUT if you insist on everyone becoming donors then you open a can of worms,aside from the state basically laying claim to your body,which i think is wrong,there is the very real possibility of you being hastened toward your end if you are seriously ill in a hospital.

Before you all start shouting that will never happen think carefully,we are already seeing the tip of the iceberg about supposed"care pathway"treatment,and i don't think it is a huge step of the imagination to have a scenario where you are in hospital,it is touch and go whether you survive,you might if you are given the right treatment at the right time, and a young person with kidney failure is desperate for a kidney in the next 48 hours in the opposite ward.Think about it,who would know,and a young life saved.Far fetched,again read about this care pathway and tell me that everyone was treated properly.

 

A slippery slope when the government and the medical world take control of our bodies.

Just thought i would update this thread,

Well i seem to have been right and the investigation into the care pathway said it was in cases no better than state euthanasia,with people being put on it in the middle of the night and weekends without any consultation with relatives.

 

Do we all still think that if your organs might be needed next door and you had a slim(but a chance)of pulling through that you might be "helped on your way"

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Agh well ain't read all the post but get the main of it.

I would gladly give any of my organs to a Caucasian (once I'm dead) apart from my liver that's knacked, if it gave another person a fighting chance, I'd get one of my kids to double check to see if I wasn't coming back before they pulled the plug , holding a can of carling under the snout should work :)

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Just thought i would update this thread,

Well i seem to have been right and the investigation into the care pathway said it was in cases no better than state euthanasia,with people being put on it in the middle of the night and weekends without any consultation with relatives.

 

Do we all still think that if your organs might be needed next door and you had a slim(but a chance)of pulling through that you might be "helped on your way"

I still don't see that an opt-out system makes that problem (if it exists) any more likely to happen. If you have opted out then they can't use your organs anyway. If you are on the register (which you advocate that people should be and presumably are aiming towards 100% uptake) then you are still susceptible to the NHS knocking you off a tad early.

 

J.

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