re: Are you an organ donor? And if not, why?

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that’s exactly how I feel

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I know that it has greatly helped parents of children that have passed away in our PICU. The organ procurement agency has highly specially trained staff that approach the families about organ donation. They maintain the highest bit of respect and sensitivity with the families, esp those of pediatric patients. Time is of the essence though for an organ donation decision unfortunately.


Children need organ transplants as well. And for children, the demand is usually higher than the supply for obvious reasons.

I hope you’re just being an el gaucho

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The harvesting team, transport team, hospital, the doctors all make FORTUNES doing one of these procedures.

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Just...no. The harvesting team, transport team, and doctors are all part of the 2 participating hospitals. There is no "commission bonus" for organ transplants for any staff. The hospitals bill for the procedures, true, but do you realize how much work is done on the patient during the post surgical global period where they are paid for NOTHING? How many of these procedures have complications post-op? Rejections, failed auto-immune therapy, co-morbidity complications.

I never worry about physicians going overboard to procure an organ. I worry about them PASSING on a good organ due to liability and patient risk factors. Profitable transplant programs are profitable b/c they pick and choose recipients with more scrutiny than their governing body advises, limiting complications and rejections so as to spend less in the post-op global period. The average transplant program is far less profitable than the downstream services that transplant patient will eventually end up in.

Yes, and everyone should join a marrow registry also.

Be The Match

Have you ever considered how complex of a surgery it is to harvest organs?


Or the amount of care needed for a patient that is the organ donor? We've had children in the PICU that the parents agreed to organ donation. That child had not only one nurse in the PICU monitoring them...but also another nurse from the organ procurement agency. They run labs and monitor levels on the patient continuously.

Everything has to be just right for the patient's organs to be suitable for donation. Lots of testing must be done, etc. It has such high costs associated with it because it is a lot of work involved for all the hospital staff. And that is just for the harvesting of the organs. Imagine how much goes into a surgery for the actual transplant itself?

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I am absolutely an organ/tissue/everything donor. It's on my license and all of my family is abundantly clear on my wishes. Anything that can go to the living should.

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Same. IDGAF what they do with my body after I'm dead... don't need it.

It’s against the Jewish religion and while I don’t care, my parents do

I'm an organ donor

and a smoker



a true a-hole

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I don't see why you're not allowed to sell them.

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Would completely demolish any integrity the organ donation program has.


Imagine your grandmother is on a transplant list for a heart. She gets bumped because the heart was sold to a millionaire who needed one.