Donor Cards

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How on earth do you get one? Do you think the system should be opt-out rather than opt-in? How does it work in the US? My mum has one but hates the idea of having an opt-out system because she sees it as theft.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't really need a proper one. just get a scrap of paper and scrawl "take my bits" on it and sign it and keep it in your wallet.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a thread about Donor Cards, not chat-up lines.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I opt out of chat-up lines.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i think they're provided by Red Cross. i could be wrong.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

But, but! What if you could be revived and the doctor treating you secretly gets paid by an evil company that traffics in organs - and he let's you die so that he gets paid for your pieces!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The NHS can't afford that.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

My driver's license has it marked.

BUT! If you haven't formally signed something and/or informed your family of your decision so that they can approve the process, they can't get at your inner bits. Unless you're dealing with a Dirty Pretty Things type scenario, in which case they don't give a fuck about donor cards. So I wouldn't worry about evil doctors, because they aren't going to justify that shit with a card - as it would be no less criminal than doing it w/o.

― , Monday, 15 December 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

If you go to donate blood, the app will ask if you want a Donor Card: yes/no. One tick in the box, and you get one in a few weeks.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

you're ugly.

crosspost.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

get what? a kidney?

xpost.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Fill out those donor cards when you're young and filled with goodwill and then forget about them, because if you're like me you won't do it when you're older. This is horrible but the older I get the more protective I get about my body. When younger I thought, hell yeah, donate all my organs, and cremate my body, but now I'm trending toward fully body preservation and having myself enshrined in a mausoleum.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm tempted to do the Japanese monk thing with the nuts and the walking and the pine needles and the arsenic.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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