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Are you an organ donor?

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Thump said:
Do you think they cut your organs out while you are still alive?
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YES. once the body is dead, it IMMEDIATELY starts to decay. only live organs are of any use.

Thump said:
Or that they'll give you less care if you are an organ donor hoping you will die?
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YES. say the paramedics show up at a serious car accident. they notice that one driver is severely injured, and quite possibly will die. they then notice that the driver is an organ donor. they report the driver as dead at the scene, yet keep him alive long enough to cut any viable organs from him to give to someone else.
 
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lvbuckeye said:
YES. once the body is dead, it IMMEDIATELY starts to decay. only live organs are of any use.


YES. say the paramedics show up at a serious car accident. they notice that one driver is severely injured, and quite possibly will die. they then notice that the driver is an organ donor. they report the driver as dead at the scene, yet keep him alive long enough to cut any viable organs from him to give to someone else.
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Please tell me you meant to type that in sarcasm font.
 
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lvbuckeye said:
YES. once the body is dead, it IMMEDIATELY starts to decay. only live organs are of any use.
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You're sort of right on this count. From the British Columbia Transplant Society:

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Can an organ or tissues be taken after biological death has occurred? How long after death can organs and tissues be taken? [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]There are two basic types of donation: organ donation and tissue donation. Organs that can be donated are the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas and small intestine. These can only be taken while the heart is still beating and after the donor is "brain dead". [/FONT]
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So, some organs can only be taken while the heart is beating. Other tissue donations can be taken after death.

lvbuckeye said:
YES. say the paramedics show up at a serious car accident. they notice that one driver is severely injured, and quite possibly will die. they then notice that the driver is an organ donor. they report the driver as dead at the scene, yet keep him alive long enough to cut any viable organs from him to give to someone else.
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:lol:

I'll check with my paramedic brother-in-law on that one.
 
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Transplanted organs create family
Recipients invited to donor's sister's wedding

Wednesday, March 29, 2006; Posted: 9:58 a.m. EST (14:58 GMT)

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- As Larry Levinson watched news footage of a Mardi Gras riot in Seattle five years ago from his hospital bed, he got so mad that a nurse unplugged the television. With a heart as weak as his, he didn't need the stress.

But a 20-year-old man who died in the melee would end up saving Levinson's life.

Levinson received a transplanted heart from that young man, Kris Kime.

This weekend, Levinson will be there when Kime's little sister gets married. Several other recipients of Kime's organs are invited, too.

"To me ... it was just like inviting my brother," said Kirsten Kime, 22.

Levinson, 67, had been on the transplant list for years with cardiomyopathy, an illness that weakens the muscles of the heart. He was near death on February 27, 2001, as thousands of Mardi Gras revelers packed into Seattle's Pioneer Square district.

"I had a few days left," Levinson said from his home in Gig Harbor, about 25 miles from Seattle. "My heart rate was running at about 15 to 20 percent and I was having heart attacks, angina attacks."

As the party raged into the early hours of the next day, roving groups of young men beat people at random. Some wielded brass knuckles. Others swung skateboards like baseball bats.

Kris Kime was caught in the melee while trying to help a woman who had been shoved to the ground, witnesses said. He was pummeled, fell and bashed his head. He was declared brain dead less than a day later.

The story was big enough that Levinson and others in line to get transplants put two and two together after doctors told them their new organs came from a 20-year-old man who had died of head injuries.

Jessie Bettes, a 51-year-old Boeing Co. employee, received one of Kime's kidneys. Ray Page, 63, got the other. Ray Allison received Kime's lungs. Martha French was given Kime's pancreas.

The Kime family has organized reunions for the organ recipients a few times over the past five years. Every time Kime's mother sees Levinson, she puts her ear to his chest and marvels that her boy's heart is still beating.

Page said he will not be able to make the wedding because he has to work, but he sent Kirsten Kime and her fiance some margarita money to spend on their honeymoon in Mexico. Bettes hopes to go, if she can fight off a bout of laryngitis. Levinson said he will be there in the first new suit he has bought in years.

"You need to understand: We're family," Levinson said. "So it didn't surprise me at all that I got invited."

In death, "Kris is so much bigger than Kris was," said Jill Steinhaus, executive director of the Living Legacy Foundation, a branch of the LifeCenter Northwest Donor Network, which helped arrange the donation. "And that's really because of his family and the people who received his organs. They will never forget that young man. And they won't let us either."
 
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