Is it hypocritical for folks who decline organ donation to be organ recipients?

Of course, if the family is making the decision and not the patient, I guess that wouldn't apply.

I mean, unless you're in one of those small religious sects that has a theological reason against it, why the hell do people care what happens to their organs after they're dead? It's weird to me.

Her theory being, the rich would start harvesting organs, before the poor were done with them...Come to think of it, this has been done in other parts of the world.

so I say yes.

So yes.

Also an organ donor. My dad encouraged me even after reading the Jewish law about it.

It's usually someone I can tell is a crank, not too smart or usually both. I work for a blood center. I usually don't waste my time on those people.

I've explained to several that while we are a not for profit corporation, I and the rest of the staff are paid and in some cases fairly highly trained. In my case, I make around $38 thousand, so we aren't exactly the highest paid people around.

We of course have to charge for the blood, even though people donate it to us. It's the same with the organ donors. That is something I understood long before I got a job in the business. I was both a blood and organ donor. Soon I will make my 100th platelet donation, and that's at about three units per donation.

I have also seen the organ harvest team get off the plane at our local airport. They rushed by wheeling their equipment and piled in a van headed for the hospital. I can assure you that isn't cheap.

for whatever reason, shouldn't you be against being an organ recipient for a medical condition.

Also, shouldn't society be able to decline giving organs to people who have refused to sign up as organ donors in the past.

everyone would sign up in a minute. More lives would be saved. winner!

In China, elder care is provided by people starting in their forties. The number of hours you give to help older people is counted. that is the number of hours you get when you are older. Makes absolute sense !

I understand when a family is grieving, organ donation is one of the last subjects they want to discuss.

But at the same time, I feel that most people would not hesitate to receive an organ if it meant life or death.

just like it is hypocritical for healthy people to expect to receive blood if they need it when they could never be bothered to donate blood - the world is filled with hypocrites

to then avail themselves of the benefits of the research. As Skittles said, there are a lot of hypocrites out there.

If someone had a belief system (spiritual or otherwise) that precludes donation, they sure as hell should not be accepting donated organs. I would only make an exception for children or incapacitated people whose guardians decline donation for them.

My husband was an organ donor. But, they couldn't take his organs when he died because of a hospital acquired MRSA infection.

Sometimes, there are simply mitigating factors which prevent organ donation out of a person's control.

He didn't decline, really. He was willing to serve others but unable to do so for reasons outside of his control.

If he was eligible for a heart transplant, we would have joyfully accepted.

It wasn't a decision we got to make, but I assure you he would have preferred to walk his daughter down the aisle and held his grandchildren.

Doesn't matter if it's logical, makes sense or is hypocritical. People only really have to answer to their own personal metric and what they think of themselves. People worry too much about garnering everyone else's approval of their lifestyle.

but does that person who decline to join the organ donation pool get to receive an organ when the time comes when they need one?

A woman has an abortion (no problem, completely her choice). Should she subsequently be barred from ever adopting a child or receiving any other reproductive treatments?

I say no.

Some people don't qualify for organ donation. . .

aren't able to determine who is suitable and who isn't. That's why it's important to have a large pool.

If I ever get to the point I need tx, my major organs will be in worse shape than they are now (kidney disease is hard on everything) but I give blood when ever I'm allowed to do so, and anyone is welcome to what they can use.

People have many reasons to not donate, including being willing but not wanting to register that automatically and have it on their drivers license. They don't want it to possibly influence an ER or other medical decision, but expect family members would make a reasonable decision. Others choose not to out of respect for their family members' wishes. There's no hypocrisy, any more than not supporting research into a particular condition one's entire life, then developing that condition and getting treatment others have paid for.

As a matter of fairness, I don't see how someone who refused to be listed as an organ donor can in good conscience expect to be listed on a transplant list for a heart, liver or kidney.

People die waiting for the next available organ. The families and patients who do donate, are giving an incredibly personal gift. Out of respect to these donors, these organs should not go to those who refuse to contribute or feel entitled to this gift of life.

Sounds rather like urban myth to me.

book Coma was based upon.

I can't imagine the outlook that makes people not want to donate organs. Frankly, if I'm dead, my heart isn't doing me an ounce of good, might as well give it to someone else!

I will not accept donor organs for myself.

I do think it is hypocritical to decline donation if one is open to the possibility of receiving organ donation. Maybe the people have health problems that they don't want to talk about that would prevent donation.

I work in transplant and its all to often a ethical knifes edge. Devout Jehovah's Witnesses, for instance will accept a transplant (kidney anyway) but still refuse blood products.

You learn to be careful with judgement and pick your battles. In transplant, people will question everything from the gender to the age to the race of the patient. Which are usually the wrong questions.

We give what's called en bloc kidney's--that's both kidneys from a deceased child--to 50 or 60 year old people. It's not wrong.

In ICU, death is such an emotional experience, decisions aren't always made with clear thought.

So while could be hypocritical in some instances I suppose, not in all.

to marijuana users, yet accept organ donations from pot smokers?

It's their choice to accept what are called 'high risk organs', including drug overdoses victims etc.


The pot smoking thing is mostly because of the profound immunosuppression one needs for a successful transplant makes the recipient extremely vulnerable to very deadly,opportunistic fungus infections.


I did ask an infectious disease doctor during a lecture if cooking and/or baking it would kill off any mold or fungus, and he said he didn't know. It would be nice TO know, because getting a transplant is rough.

I am an organ donor. I am also donating my body to science for use wherever it's needed. I won't need any body parts when I'm gone and if my body can be used for research of any kind, have at it.

Once dead, nobody has any reason to keep them.

it's something I'd try to put into law.