Re: OT-ish. Organ Donor register refusal

halla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Halla says...
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:42:07 -0400, "Nidge"
> <n.j.murray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> blethered:
>
> [...]
> >Months later we got a reply to the effect ? No way are we willing to
> >accept offers of organ donation with any kind of restriction. Please
> >refill the forms without restriction so we can fully exploit your
> >generosity to give to the undeserving.
> >
> >We didn?t.
> >
> >So I?m just wondering -
> >How many potential donors is this attitude causing the system to loose?
> >Its not hard to deal with as an administrative bit given the register
> >itself is established - So why do they reject potentially valuable
> >donors?
> >How do we force the system to change?
>
> Charming. I bet you don't give money to beggars, just in case they
> spend it on drink. Why do you care what happens to your organs when
> you're dead, and how do you start judging who is worthy of receiving
> your cast-off kidneys or whatever?

I'd pity anyone who got my liver ... OTOH I suppose one could argue if
it hasn't failed by now it's never going to.

> And I suppose your terms about family being registered comfortably
> accomodates yourself as one of the deserving, despite the fact that
> you refuse to sign up unconditionally.

As if the hard pressed clinicians in the NHS haven't got enough
pointless form-filling and bureaucratic bollocks to worry about as it
is, without running around calculating percentages.

It really is quite the most stupid "idea" I've seen in ages; donate, or
don't donate, it's your choice, but don't *** things up or complicate
them any more than they already are.
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Bear
"Holy Crip! He's a crapple!"
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