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by AnswerAsh on June 20th, 2005

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Is it true that a hospital won't try as hard to save someone who has signed up to be an organ donor?

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  • by lean16 on June 25th, 2005

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    I believe that is something people say as a reason for not wanting to be an organ donor, or if they don't want someone close to them to be one.
    The people who make lawsuits are people who are upset that there loved one was unable to be saved. Or if they believe that the surgeon or the ER physician and staff didn't try hard enough. I am a complete organ donor, I am very proud to be one. I think that its something to be proud of ... Your not only saving someones life who would of otherwised died, but your giving others a better life. Such as burn victims who can use your skin ... so that they don't have to look in the morrior everyday with burns on them or be pointed at.. Those people shouldn't have to be humilated or ashamned for something that wasn't there fault. Plus whats every left over can be used for medical research to try and better understand diseases and the human body all together. Which in time although your not on this planet you still are. You've given the greatest gifts... People life who would of died.. a better quality of life.. and maybe one of the many who contributed to a cure for a disease. I myself suffer from crohns disease which is heretitary, theres no cure yet. Because people don't know much about this disease or the severity of it. There may not even be a cure in my lifetime for it. I have two children and they have a chance of suffering from this disease too. My greatest prayer is that me being apart of research to cure this disease will not only help my babies... but the other hundred of thousands of people who have been diagnosed or who just don't know what they're suffering from. If your worried about being an organ donor , you shouldn't be those in the medical field take the hypocratical oath to go to the furthest extent and measures to save someones life. If your still not convinced .. stop at your local hospital and fill out a living will form. You will beable to choose what extent you want the hospital to take in saving your life when the time comes. Such as if you stop breathing do you want the physicians to go to the furthest extent in making your heart start beating. If you neeed oxygen , do you want it. Or if your decleared brain dead.. Do you want to be put on resporator and for how long? The oath that they take is that they will go to what extent you want and to give you the best quaity of life possible, and to simply try there hardest to save your life when it needs saved. They are not going to kill one patient to save another one. In most cases those families who sue are for the reasons up top, or because they don't want to go by what was written in that individuals living will.. or that individual never took the time or was informed about this choice and they have to go by what the closest relative said there wishes were. So I encourage everyone unless it goes against your religous belief to be a complete organ donor. I mean what else are you going to use your body for when you die.. You either get burrried and eaten by worms and other insects. YUK! Or you get cremated and someone has to look at that as a constant reminder that your gone forever. Give life.. please!

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