UK: Sign up online to be an Organ Donor

[Fat Tone]

The NHS Organ Donor Register will now let you sign up online - no need to find and carry a card. It only takes a minute to enter your details and express your preferences. They'll even notify close relatives of your wishes if you ask them to.

Go for it: there are currently over 7,000 people desperately waiting for an organ transplant - you could help save or improve the lives of several others.

http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/default.htm

Thanks

T.

[Sasq]

In my home state in Oz, we can actually selelct the prefernce on our drivers licences. Which I did, tis a good cause.

[Fat Tone]

That's a good idea. I know some countries have an 'opt out' register (whereby you are assumed to agree unless you object) and that has been discussed here, but nothing much seems to change. At least by creating an online national register it should make things a lot easier and convenient for people. I heard about this through my employer, which is a good initiative imo.

I decided not to ask them to inform my rellies though - I think telling them myself would be better - I wouldn't put it past them to see the subject line and start organising a wake

T.

[Dr Mordrid]

Here in Michigan we also have it on our drivers license. Easy and, unfortunately, infrequently used.

Dr. Mordrid

[Kruzin]

It's on our drivers licences in Colorado also.
Got a little red heart on the corner of mine

[Jon P. Inghram]

You can have my organs when you pry them from my cold, dead hands! And since at that point I very likely wouldn't be using them any more, you can go ahead and pull anything that looks useful out.

[Wulfman]

opt-out model here, never bothered about it. especially bikers are regarded as good "donors" here.

mfg
wulfman

[KvHagedorn]

I might consider being a donor if I could deny my organs to some spoiled rock star who has drunk himself half to death and thinks he can just buy himself a new liver.

[Brian Ellis]

Your dick might go to Michael Jackson, who had his cut off by a boy.

(Sorry for the bad taste, but I couldn't resist it)

[TransformX]

I'm more of a piano person...

[Fat Tone]

Originally posted by TransformX
I'm more of a piano person...

Dilbert, is that you?

[VJ]

In Belgium, all people are by default organ donor. You have to carry a card to explicitly say you don't want to donate your organs.
(IIRC the organs are used only for transplants, for donating organs for eduactional purposes (e.g. medical students) you also need a card)

TransformX:
In this sense ?
- "Will I be able to play the piano ?"
- "yes"
- "Great, I couldn't before !"


Jörg

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Fat Tone
Dilbert, is that you?

No, it looks more like dogbert

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by TransformX
I'm more of a piano person...

I don't get it....you mean you prefer to donate pianos?

[gt40]

First Man: Hello, er can we have your liver...?

Mr Bloke: My what?

First Man: Your liver... it's a large glandular organ in your abdomen... you know it's a reddish-brown and it's sort of -

Mr Bloke: Yes, I know what it is, but I'm using it.

Second Man: Come on sir... don't muck us about.

[They move in.]

Mr Bloke: Hey!

[They shut the door behind him.]

[The first man makes a grab at his wallet and finds a card in it.]

First Man: Hallo! What's this then...?

Mr Bloke: A liver donor's card.

First Man: Need we say more?

Second Man: No!

Mr Bloke: Look, I can't give it to you now. It says 'In The Event of Death'...

First Man: No-one who has ever had their liver taken out by us has survived...

[The second man is rummaging around in a bag of clanking tools.]

Second Man: Just lie there, sir. it won't take a minute.

[They throw him onto the dining room table and, without any more ceremony, start to cut him open.]