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I'm not, because it's set up that the only people who can't benefit from this, are my family.

The doctors can get beaucoup bucks from the ins. companies to do the surgery, harvest and transport my organs.

The person getting the organ gets to live.

My family gives up an organ worth, realistically, $50k-??? tens of thousands, and gets a warm fuzzy feeling.

I'd consider doing it if they would at least cover my funeral expenses as part of the deal. But they don't.

There was a news article a couple years ago about some transplant lab that illegally used parts from someone who had cancer. They killed several recipients.

The high incidence of circulating tumour cells in early melanoma should be considered in the context of the transmission of melanoma by apparent disease-free organ donors following removal of a primary melanoma up to 32 years before. This scenario suggests that melanoma cells can remain dormant at distant sites for decades (and possibly forever) in immunocompetent patients, only to reactivate after transplantation into an immunosuppressed recipient. Potential organ donors should be carefully screened for a history of melanoma, and excluded.

This is my stand too

So it is a no for me for the reasons stated by burner

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20451456

"Do it for free so we can profit or we'll guilt you into feeling like a bastard for wanting the best for your family at the bitter end."

I can see your point, to a degree. But I have made the effort to obtain and maintain life insurance so my family doesn't have to worry about money when I croak off. Anybody who wants my organs is welcome to them.

Almost all, if not all, transplant centers are university hospitals that function on a very tight margin. The doctors who do the surgeries are faculty members, so their incomes are capped. The anti-rejection drugs provided to the organ recipients cost a fortune, and are supported/subsidized by whatever "profits" the transplant centers get from health care insurance. Many recipients do not have private health insurance, so the taxpayer and the university hospitals have to write their costs off in many cases.

The people who work on the transplant teams do it because they believe their work makes a real difference. They aren't doing it for money.

I can see your point, to a degree. But I have made the effort to obtain and maintain life insurance so my family doesn't have to worry about money when I croak off. Anybody who wants my organs is welcome to them.

Almost all, if not all, transplant centers are university hospitals that function on a very tight margin. The doctors who do the surgeries are faculty members, so their incomes are capped. The anti-rejection drugs provided to the organ recipients cost a fortune, and are supported/subsidized by whatever "profits" the transplant centers get from health care insurance. Many recipients do not have private health insurance, so the taxpayer and the university hospitals have to write their costs off in many cases.

The people who work on the transplant teams do it because they believe their work makes a real difference. They aren't doing it for money.

There was no charge for the organs you received. Jus sayin.

I respect your thoughts and position on the matter.

I'm not, because it's set up that the only people who can't benefit from this, are my family.

The doctors can get beaucoup bucks from the ins. companies to do the surgery, harvest and transport my organs.

The person getting the organ gets to live.

My family gives up an organ worth, realistically, $50k-??? tens of thousands, and gets a warm fuzzy feeling.

I'd consider doing it if they would at least cover my funeral expenses as part of the deal. But they don't.

My wife donated bone marrow -- and saved a 56 year old grand-father's life.

Would this act have more or less meaning to her, or me, if someone had been waving a wad of cash in front of her like a used car salesman? Boy, we could have gone to Hawaii off some poor sucker's bad luck! Yeah, some guy is dying, can't support his family, and when he's down, squeeze him for as much as you can. Real Christlike, that.

It's hard for me to understand that someone can be so petty that they will take their organs and leave...... unless they get their pound of flesh.

YOU WILL BE DEAD. As far as leaving it in your estate: I raise my kids with the right values and life's skills, and send them to college. I carry half a million in life insurance ($26 per month -- less than I spend on targets). My wife and kids will do just fine when I'm gone, and a whole lot better than they would be after they'd have sold my carcass to the highest bidder.

I am a donor. When I'm gone, come and get it, before throwing it out to the coyotes.... JMO, Dutch.

I don't, because as a kid I had asthma and was always getting blood tests because of the meds I was on. Terrified of needles.

So, you're a little bit scared of nurses, and you're not willing to get over that in order to save someone's mother or father?

Not going to fight with you. You can have your moral high ground, I will take mine - I care about what happens to my family after I die, and I give not a whit about putting someone else first if my own family has to come second.
You and I see the world very differently..... JMO, Dutch.