Opt out or opt in?

Syl wrote:

eddie wrote:

Syl wrote:Past a certain age...(and I'm sure that would be 99% of posters here) the organs probably wouldn't get further than a students scalpel to be dissected....its a romantic notion to think that your own organs could be used inside someone else, but long term every little helps.

I'd like to donate my whole body to medical science. I quite like the idea of handsome doctors "exclaiming" over my body....

I read a book once (forgot the title) and the main characters were students in a dissecting lab. They named all the corpses and got quite attached to them as they dissected bits and pieces of their bodies....though they were also quite critical of fat or ugly corpses.
Apparently. unless the face is being disected its covered, to give the dead person some respect.....not sure if that's 100% true though.

eddie wrote:

Syl wrote:

I read a book once (forgot the title) and the main characters were students in a dissecting lab. They named all the corpses and got quite attached to them as they dissected bits and pieces of their bodies....though they were also quite critical of fat or ugly corpses.
Apparently. unless the face is being disected its covered, to give the dead person some respect.....not sure if that's 100% true though.

I think that sounds comforting - that the students get attached. Perhaps it's not entirely true, but I'd like to think so.

Syl wrote:

magica wrote:[quote="Syl"]Past a certain age...(and I'm sure that would be 99% of posters here) the organs probably wouldn't get further than a students scalpel to be dissected....its a romantic notion to think that your own organs could be used inside someone else, but long term every little helps.

Speak for yourself


I think if anything I've got can help someone live, they're welcome to it. Can't take your body with you.

Syl wrote:

eddie wrote:


I think that sounds comforting - that the students get attached. Perhaps it's not entirely true, but I'd like to think so.

I think so too....I just hope my corpse is still in pretty good nick so they don't make fun.
On second thoughts....will I care?

magica wrote:

Syl wrote:

I think so too....I just hope my corpse is still in pretty good nick so they don't make fun.
On second thoughts....will I care?

Why would it be in good nick when your'e dead, its not when alive

Lord Foul wrote:In this materialistic world i think we need to strike a bargain over this.....

IF you leave your organs for donation/research

then for every organ so used you should get a 10% reduction in death duties.....

(I dont see too many relatives complaining then)

Lord Foul wrote:

I sell my skills while I'm alive

so...

and its not as such "selling" is it?

Syl wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:

I sell my skills while I'm alive

so...

and its not as such "selling" is it?

Well it is in a way...I don't like the idea or money being involved at all.

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:

Well it is in a way...I don't like the idea or money being involved at all.

That's the way I feel about all healthcare.  Insurance is essentially a bet where all the odds are on the house.  Can you imagine going in to Las Vegas and laying your liver down on the craps table?

Original Quill wrote:He blew it all the very next day...

Syl wrote:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/please-save-life-prime-minister-10738835

"Schoolboy Max Johnson has made an impassioned plea to Theresa May over his desperate need for a new heart, urging the PM: “Please change the law to save me.”
The nine-year-old, who made the emotional appeal last night, has been waiting six months for a donor as he has an enlarged heart and relies on a tiny pump in his chest to keep him alive.
The Mirror is calling on the Government to change the law on organ donation so that people are automatically potential organ donors unless they opt out, to save thousands of extra lives."