Have you considered being an Organ Donor?

[Is Milse Póg]

Honestly in my opinion having your organs donated upon death should be the default for all!
It is known that when you ask someone to sign something it is less likely for him to actually sign it even if he has no problem with the concept, it's just that active action requires more incentive then passive action. Another thing is that people don't like to think about death so it thus they are less likely to actually sign it because it's reminds them of mortality.

 

[Adorno]

If you die without having your ID on you, how will the doctors even know who you are in order to check the register.

I meant the donor ID (that you fill out) that Wellen mentioned. You can still be in an accident not having your donor ID (for whatever reason),
but have you 'actual ID' on you, and friends/family might confirm who you are. A central donor register is needed.

 

[Austupaio]

This is kind of a weird assumption, particularly to blanket apply to all countries. There's no such thing here in the US, it's literally a stamp on your ID depending on the state.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

Honestly in my opinion having your organs donated upon death should be the default for all!
It is known that when you ask someone to sign something it is less likely for him to actually sign it even if he has no problem with the concept, it's just that active action requires more incentive then passive action. Another thing is that people don't like to think about death so it thus they are less likely to actually sign it because it's reminds them of mortality.

When I am god-emperor of Earth, nobody will be forced to partake in organ donation.

But if you're not on the list for donatin', you're not on the list for receivin'. Those who aren't willing to give will get no opportunity to take.

 

[Wellenbrecher]

If you die without having your ID on you, how will the doctors even know who you are in order to check the register.

I meant the donor ID (that you fill out) that Wellen mentioned. You can still be in an accident not having your donor ID (for whatever reason),
but have you 'actual ID' on you, and friends/family might confirm who you are. A central donor register is needed.

Then I misunderstood your post. I figured you were talking that there legally needs to be such a thing not that it's needed to help doctors make the right decisions.

But then:
If I don't have that donor card on me then more likely than not I won't have a wallet on me in the first place and thus I can't be identified quickly enough anyway.
Stands to reason, I mean. The regular ID is in your wallet more likely than not and I see no real reason that you would just suddenly randomly decide to take out the donor card, right?
And I'm going to copy my buddy here and keep one copy in my wallet, one at home and one with my parents, for just such a case.

 

[Adorno]

... I see no real reason that you would just suddenly randomly decide to take out the donor card, right?

Have you met... people? 

 

[Wellenbrecher]

You're talking to a guy that managed to use a staple gun on his left pointer finger today and then rip the staple out sideways when the pain hit.
I concede your point.

 

[Kharille]

Maybe your driving licence was destroyed, along with your teeth and they can't identify the body parts....

If your body is so bad it cannot be identified, your organs are probably not in any useful condition.

Well, you never know.  Maybe even with the worse incidents there may be a useable part that can provide a limb that will be useful, until the days of super advanced cybernetics.  It'll be necessary to quickly identify this body part and what if there were multiple people in the same explosion?  The confusion might delay the recycling of useful body parts.  Until we manage Robocop cyborg technology we'll have to use these primitive means...

 

[Cpt. Nemo]

...again, in an event where an explosion was large enough that multiple people were turned into sausage, no amount of technology/medicine will be able to salvage anything. An organ, limb, etc transplant is not as simple as you think it is. Bits and pieces have to be cut and aligned a certain way to be useful, not be rejected, and not cause problems, especially with bone and skin. You can't just transplant an arm or something that was violently blown off by a shotgun or whatever.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

Well, you never know.  Maybe even with the worse incidents there may be a useable part that can provide a limb that will be useful, until the days of super advanced cybernetics.  It'll be necessary to quickly identify this body part and what if there were multiple people in the same explosion?  The confusion might delay the recycling of useful body parts.  Until we manage Robocop cyborg technology we'll have to use these primitive means...

The whole point of cybernetics is that synthetic limbs are used in place of real ones. If we reach the point where it's possible to reattach severed limbs, it will render cyerbernetics moot. Also, you've clearly never seen the aftermath of an explosion. You won't be reattaching anything.

 

[Orion]

If we reach the point where it's possible to reattach severed limbs, it will render cyerbernetics moot.

Says you. What if I want robot legs? Gotta go fast.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

Fine, disclaimer: for people who don't want to augment themselves technologically with go-faster racing stripe legs and laser canon arms.

 

[Paula]

I had a paper thing when I still lived in Germany because one day a housemate brought a whole stack of them and I won't be needing my organs if I end up braindead. After moving to the Netherlands I signed up at a central register thing as soon as I learnt about it. Got a little card to carry with me and put it in my motorbike pants pocket. ^^
Felt pretty good about at least being able to sign up for organ donation, since they don't want me to donate blood or bone marrow already. I'd be doing it all if they just let me. (in varying frequencies and a certain order, obviously.)

 

[Adorno]

... Got a little card to carry with me and put it in my motorbike pants pocket. ^^

Smart move. In hospitals we simply call motorcyclists "racing organs".

“Motorcycle fatalities are not only our number one source of organs,” said one surgeon.
“They are also the highest-quality source of organs, because donors are usually young,
healthy people with no other traumatic injuries to the body, except to the head.”

 

[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]

How affably cynical

 

[Wellenbrecher]

Never heard that before Monty?
I think someone on here shared a story of a doc getting suspended for answering a relative asking about the availability of donor organs by looking out of the window and pointing out that it was raining

(and if it wasn't here than it was the colleague of a friend of mine, too many ****ed up surgeon stories from that end)

 

[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]

Probably heard some variation on it before but yeah, it's new to me.

 

[Kharille]

Well, you never know.  Maybe even with the worse incidents there may be a useable part that can provide a limb that will be useful, until the days of super advanced cybernetics.  It'll be necessary to quickly identify this body part and what if there were multiple people in the same explosion?  The confusion might delay the recycling of useful body parts.  Until we manage Robocop cyborg technology we'll have to use these primitive means...

The whole point of cybernetics is that synthetic limbs are used in place of real ones. If we reach the point where it's possible to reattach severed limbs, it will render cyerbernetics moot. Also, you've clearly never seen the aftermath of an explosion. You won't be reattaching anything.

To some extent I think tattoos are a form of augmentation.  Perhaps there will be salvageable silicon 'parts' which are impact resistant and absorbed the massive kinetic forces of a car crash, thus rendering some organs intact in a car crash.  Yes, this may also apply in the case of shockwaves.  Bearing in mind how common cybernetic augmentation is already established especially with one gender it is highly likely that there may be some useful parts that could be recycled. 



https://www.livescience.com/60018-penis-surgery-death.html

Maybe this guy was an organ donor.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

Perhaps there will be salvageable silicon 'parts' which are impact resistant and absorbed the massive kinetic forces of a car crash, thus rendering some organs intact in a car crash.

If we're all walking around with indestructive silicon parts inside us, why will we ever need organ replacement in the first place?

 

[rebelknight]

Who would want my organs? 

They are as ****ed up as i am.
I assume so since i mostly eat sub-par foods and drink mostly sugary stuffs or cheap beers.
I also drink at least 5-6 energy drinks a week.
My heart must hate me.

I'm probably going to die around 30.

When i think about it, i knew a guy who was an hardcore alcoholic and a smoker who went off to live to 94.
Hell, my mom lived to 54 so maybe i can live to at least 60.