What are pros and cons of being an organ donor?!
Question: What are pros and cons of being an organ donor!?
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Pro: you help save someone in need's life,
Con: the operation of salvaging your organs (which costs a lot of money), you/your family has to pay for it and fund it!, its ridiculousWww@Answer-Health@Com
Con: the operation of salvaging your organs (which costs a lot of money), you/your family has to pay for it and fund it!, its ridiculousWww@Answer-Health@Com
First of all - the donor family does NOT have to pay any expenses for donation!!! If you question this you can read it on the Midwest transplant network website!. -- http://www!.mwob!.org/organ!.asp
The pro of being an organ donor is much more for your family and for the patients (and their family) that receive the organs because you won't be alive to experience it, but for your family, it can help cope with their loss to know that they have saved or improved not just one life, but as many as 50 people!. That's huge!! To know that your pain/loss resulted in the ability to give joy and life to many others - that a nice thing!. Not only that, but the transplant network assists in grieving and services!. You wouldn't have that help without donation!.
Most deaths give the potential of donating tissue and eyes, but when we think of organ donation we usually think of hearts, lungs, kidneys!.!.!.the big stuff!. To be able to donate those things, the patient has to be diagnosed with brain death!. That means their heart is still beating and their lungs are still moving oxygen (with the assistance of a ventilator) after their brain is dead!. This situation is not especially common, but can be a result of an accident with head trauma - or a gun shot wound to the head!. (This proves also that health care workers have to try harder to keep a person's body going in the case of donation rather than not trying to save them because they are a donor!.) In any case, a person who has been diagnosed with brain death looks like they are still alive - just in a coma!. It's very hard for a family to see your chest rise and fall, and your heart rhythm flow across the monitor and accept that you are dead!. The body must be kept in this state for a day or two while tests are run to see which organs are good for transplant and while recipients are found for each of your organs and they prepare for surgery to receive the organ!.
If you have never discussed the idea of organ donation it can be hard because you are in the middle of a huge life crisis - you have just found out that your loved one is dead, and now you have to make this decision and you don't have much time to make it in!.
As far as the family receiving the organ - it can mean years on their live - and healthier life - you can't really put a price on that!.!.!.but being on the waiting list means having to be available for surgery on a moment's notice!. It means not knowing if you'll ever get that call!.
Once you get the organ you have to take expensive drugs that decrease your immune system in order to keep your body from rejecting it!. That makes you more likely to get sick, and sometimes your body rejects the organ anyway - that can be life threatening - but not having the organ was life threatening too!.!.!.
When the organs are taken from the body - the dead person is taken to surgery and given anesthesia just the way you would a life person!.
I recently worked with a case where one of the organs was taken from the patient with brain death and was a match for a family friend on an organ waiting list!. The family was able to request the organ go to a family friend - and it did!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
The pro of being an organ donor is much more for your family and for the patients (and their family) that receive the organs because you won't be alive to experience it, but for your family, it can help cope with their loss to know that they have saved or improved not just one life, but as many as 50 people!. That's huge!! To know that your pain/loss resulted in the ability to give joy and life to many others - that a nice thing!. Not only that, but the transplant network assists in grieving and services!. You wouldn't have that help without donation!.
Most deaths give the potential of donating tissue and eyes, but when we think of organ donation we usually think of hearts, lungs, kidneys!.!.!.the big stuff!. To be able to donate those things, the patient has to be diagnosed with brain death!. That means their heart is still beating and their lungs are still moving oxygen (with the assistance of a ventilator) after their brain is dead!. This situation is not especially common, but can be a result of an accident with head trauma - or a gun shot wound to the head!. (This proves also that health care workers have to try harder to keep a person's body going in the case of donation rather than not trying to save them because they are a donor!.) In any case, a person who has been diagnosed with brain death looks like they are still alive - just in a coma!. It's very hard for a family to see your chest rise and fall, and your heart rhythm flow across the monitor and accept that you are dead!. The body must be kept in this state for a day or two while tests are run to see which organs are good for transplant and while recipients are found for each of your organs and they prepare for surgery to receive the organ!.
If you have never discussed the idea of organ donation it can be hard because you are in the middle of a huge life crisis - you have just found out that your loved one is dead, and now you have to make this decision and you don't have much time to make it in!.
As far as the family receiving the organ - it can mean years on their live - and healthier life - you can't really put a price on that!.!.!.but being on the waiting list means having to be available for surgery on a moment's notice!. It means not knowing if you'll ever get that call!.
Once you get the organ you have to take expensive drugs that decrease your immune system in order to keep your body from rejecting it!. That makes you more likely to get sick, and sometimes your body rejects the organ anyway - that can be life threatening - but not having the organ was life threatening too!.!.!.
When the organs are taken from the body - the dead person is taken to surgery and given anesthesia just the way you would a life person!.
I recently worked with a case where one of the organs was taken from the patient with brain death and was a match for a family friend on an organ waiting list!. The family was able to request the organ go to a family friend - and it did!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Pros are self explanitory!.
To my knowledge you do not have to pay for operating costs!. But even if you do, you`re dead!.!.!. and your family is not responsible for YOUR medical bills after your death unless you are a minor!.
I`ve heard people say that paramedics won`t try as hard if they see a donor card, but I`m sure this is rare if it happens at all!.
I also happen to know that it`s against some religions (such as Islam which requires the body to be buried whole)!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
To my knowledge you do not have to pay for operating costs!. But even if you do, you`re dead!.!.!. and your family is not responsible for YOUR medical bills after your death unless you are a minor!.
I`ve heard people say that paramedics won`t try as hard if they see a donor card, but I`m sure this is rare if it happens at all!.
I also happen to know that it`s against some religions (such as Islam which requires the body to be buried whole)!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
There are no cons, you don't care anymore!.!.!.!.and you need the organs anymore!. Hospitals cover the costs through the OD program!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Pros: Helping a person in need!.
Cons: None!. (The donor's family does NOT pay anything)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Cons: None!. (The donor's family does NOT pay anything)Www@Answer-Health@Com