Organ donation

[humpurple kushiones]

yea i realize im blowing this section up, but this is haunting me...

Idk if im just being paranoid, but do you think that choosing to be an organ donor on your license might make make the hospital.. not try as hard as they could to save your life if you get into a serious accident?

bone marrow alone is 23 million, heart and lung transplants are a million.. livers are like 400k.. it just seams like with all that money involved, theres more of an incentive to the hospital if you die, its sketching me out so bad.

 

[Rob.]

im not an organ donor because i am an -------- and for that reason alone.

 

[btyczki21]

never thought of it like that O:

im not a donor cuz nobody asked and i didnt sign anything...but now if sum1 does imma say no

 

[spencer cunningham]

http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_18145429

i cant find the specific story but this guy was pronounced "brain dead" then his organs were harvested because he was listed as a donor. he wasnt physically dead until after the organs were harvested. its rare but people can come back from being brain dead. i wonder if gabby giffords was an organ donor.....?

 

[Ham.]

haha i find this very funny actually because i was actually just watching a documentary on organ transplants.

yes and in the video it implied that they do not try as hard to save you, even if you are pretty much dead. Because they must extract the organs so they can be fresh and inside the receiver in a matter of hours.

 

[.Gerrit]

hey, if youre hurt that bad, and they have to make a monetary descision based upon your odds of living, and the odds are bad enough that it would cost less for you to be dead, at least someone else can be saved because of you.

 

[humpurple kushiones]

hey, if youre hurt that bad, and they have to make a monetary descision based upon your odds of living, and the odds are bad enough that it would cost less for you to be dead, at least someone else can be saved because of you.

idc about how much it would cost me, this is my only life and i intend to push it as far as i can. after i die im not going to be taken up to the sky to see the magical sky daddy, my life will be over.

and even if the chances are slim to none, id still want them to try. once im actually dead i wouldnt mind it, because i would be dead, but until theres absolutely 0% chance of life, i dont want to be given up on because money will go into someone elses pocket.

 

[BrandonWeir]

I'm an organ donor. Never thought of it this way.

 

[Ham.]

it almost seems like if they check and find out that you are a donor, whatever more money to the organ, which means more pay for us. thats kinda the way they think? idk

one other question is that if organs go through the black market and all, how would they keep the organ fresh for donation?

 

[R-Dubya]

it almost seems like if they check and find out that you are a donor, whatever more money to the organ, which means more pay for us. thats kinda the way they think? idk

one other question is that if organs go through the black market and all, how would they keep the organ fresh for donation?

You can keep organs alive for days on ice.

 

[.Gerrit]

they probably make just as much money on hospital bills as they do on organs, and te prices that anthony listed were for the black market. i doubt the hospital gets paid nearly as much.

 

[humpurple kushiones]

they probably make just as much money on hospital bills as they do on organs, and te prices that anthony listed were for the black market. i doubt the hospital gets paid nearly as much.

no, those are the prices for the actual procedures..

and they deff dont make as much on a hospital bill as open heart surgery.

 

[.Gerrit]

i know for a fact that getting bone marrow removed doesnt cost 23 mil. My dad is a marrow donor. Removing those things from a dead body
would be even cheaper, because they wouldnt have to use painkillers.

Also, when i said "hospital bills" i meant things that either the patient or their insurer would pay.

 

[.Gerrit]

i know for a fact that getting bone marrow removed doesnt cost 23 mil. My dad is a marrow donor. Removing those things from a dead body
would be even cheaper, because they wouldnt have to use painkillers.

Also, when i said "hospital bills" i meant things that either the patient or their insurer would pay.

 

[humpurple kushiones]

i know for a fact that getting bone marrow removed doesnt cost 23 mil. My dad is a marrow donor. Removing those things from a dead body
would be even cheaper, because they wouldnt have to use painkillers.

Also, when i said "hospital bills" i meant things that either the patient or their insurer would pay.

the bone marrow is per 1000 grams, im sure your dad never donated 1000 grams of bone marrow.

and yes, i understood that, and again, its not nearly as much as transplanting a vital organ from one person to another.. unless you have to be on life support for a few... months

 

[BrandonWeir]

I'm sure people keep statistics on these things. Besides, if the number of deaths rapidly increases for no apparent reason at a hospital, then it'll get shut down. Doctors don't get paid 23 mil, so they have no reason to try to kill people off. They might get orders from the upper ups but that big of a scandal would've been exposed by now if it was really a problem.

 

[humpurple kushiones]

I'm sure people keep statistics on these things. Besides, if the number of deaths rapidly increases for no apparent reason at a hospital, then it'll get shut down. Doctors don't get paid 23 mil, so they have no reason to try to kill people off. They might get orders from the upper ups but that big of a scandal would've been exposed by now if it was really a problem.

even if it isnt a huge issue, its still a possibility. it just makes me feel uncomfortable knowing that my body could be used to make people money.

 

[Ham.]

i also heard that to obtain bone marrow people will it even take it from diseased people, imagine getting a transplant then days later testing positive for HIV. that would suck

 

[tylerbillman]

Anthony, it's true. The organ business is that, a business. It's an industry with a lot of money involved.

I'm not an organ donor.

 

[BrandonWeir]

Doctors have no reason to induce death for organs. They're paid to keep you alive, it doesn't look good for them to the public, or to their employers when a patient of theirs dies.