Organ donors 'should get funerals paid for by NHS' says ethics chief

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A LEADING medical ethics body wants the NHS to pay for the funerals of organ donors in an effort to help tackle the shortage of donations in the UK.


Hugh Whittall, UK director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, dismissed suggestions that covering the cost of funeral expenses for those who sign the donor register was a way of getting around the legal ban on selling organs.


Mr Whittall, who claimed that the move would save the NHS money, said: "We're not talking about the top end of funeral costs. If one was for ?2,000 for example, we'd be able to measure that against the costs of a transplant procedure of about ?17,000 or the ?30,000 cost of keeping someone on dialysis. There would have to be a cap, though.




Suppose you have no money for the funeral, this could be your only solution.


I rather not have organ donor of my body because they start taking organs when you are still alive, you can feel like a fish nibbles.


I rather have a mahogany polished coffin full of worms can?t feel them.


Either way which one would you go for?

[Canker_Canison]

I rather not have organ donor of my body because they start taking organs when you are still alive, you can feel like a fish nibbles.

Have we been watching horror films while drunk or stoned again?

In a small way, yes you could be alive when they 'harvest' your body for spares. But only in the fact that machines are keeping you breathing & your heart pumping.
You would be either brain dead (open to comments) or the decision to pull the plug has been taken.

So unless you've been bitten by a zombie there's no coming back once you're brain dead.


I'm on the register & have been since I was 16. It would just make a small bonus to those I leave behind if the NHS paid for part of my funeral..... Taking there's enough of me left to have a funeral

[ChelseaBun]

they can take everything of mine except my heart and my eyes... I feel i may need them to get into heaven.

[Captin]

I've been registered/card carrier since 16 too, 32 years ago, they can take the lot & burn what's left, I wont need when I'm re-incarnated.

As for funeral, well on the black market a kidney goes for upwards of ?10,000 or ?20,000 so paying for a funeral seems cheap.

I'm all for the "opt out" option. I think every dead body should be harvested, and people given the option to NOT have their organs taken instead of the other way around.

Too many people die because they cant get the organs they need to save them.

Too many people believe something magical happens when you die and that you will need all your parts intact.

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The law should be changed??????.

If you have both kidney not working strangle him and the next one.

If your heart is not good enough same thing move on!!!!!!!!!!!

The populations already out of food.

Hear is when the late Dr Shipman comes to do the jog every body ighnored??

Suppose the man who makes the decisions to take you to heaven only if you have all the parts intact when NHS has taken every shite from you then what?

[barrowmanandrew]

The law should be changed??????.

If you have both kidney not working strangle him and the next one.

If your heart is not good enough same thing move on!!!!!!!!!!!

The populations already out of food.

Hear is when the late Dr Shipman comes to do the jog every body ighnored??

Suppose the man who makes the decisions to take you to heaven only if you have all the parts intact when NHS has taken every shite from you then what?

are u against organ donation?

would you refuse a transplant of a failing organ if your life depended on it?

[Canker_Canison]

He's also assuming we've all been brain washed with the heaven & hell bol!ocks.

When you die, you die....cease to be....no conscious thought or afterlife... You're dead.

It makes no difference if my left arm is now attached to a sweaty biker & my testicles are preserved for all to see in the natural history museum. I ain't gonna need 'em... I'll be dead.

[Meat-Head]

are u against organ donation?

would you refuse a transplant of a failing organ if your life depended on it?

Yeah no buying or using 2nd hand anything for you, tv, video, car, house, new only.

[hypersonic]

Organ donors

I would be nice to know that some part of me was keeping some woman happy after my funeral

[jcgrumbles]

Im getting carted off to the hospital for them to practice on when i croak,when the last bits been used they will ring the family and a small service is done in the hospital chapel..end of,no funeral costs for anyone.

[johnboy1974]

Organ donations not for me but i think this is a good idea as long as the deceased made it known it was what he wanted. Imagine if my family gave the go ahead for my organs to be transplanted against my wishes so they could save a few quid. i'd be turning in my grave and come back to haunt them.

[basco]

fair enough as long as im not conscious it would be nice to know that someone can have a second chance at life. no reason why they "nhs" couldn't help with the funeral costs considering the cost of dying these days....... even though there are some who would say that such gifts should be left as such,gifts. with no monetary return leaving everyone satisfied that the organs are not being bought or sold..

[Kalipo]

Im on the register.. but by the time im dead.. think all my organs will be wrecked.. the receipient will be addicted to cannabis.. and will end a prolific masturbaitor..

[Meat-Head]

Im getting carted off to the hospital for them to practice on when i croak,.

Hopefully they are doing it for educational or entertaintment reasons - how can they off a warranty on used parts that are xxx years old!

Organ donations not for me but i think this is a good idea .

So your TV goes down, microwave, car, skydish etc etc - and the part required is no longer made - just that one part is broken - you have two choices

1) New car, tv, sky dish, microwave etc etc

2) A 2nd hand part for free - just pay for install.

3) You come off your motorbike, ripping you left leg off and your head as well, your head can be bolted back on, your leg goes into the sea
you are offered a 2nd hand leg which wil be 100% good job - which do you choose 1 leg or 2nd hand?

Which are you going to choose?

[super jumbe]

1 human head, two arms, two legs, one stomach????

Brain is the last thing to die because every doctor before attending to see the patient if he is alive or dead the first thing he checks is your heart, then your eyes and once all those confirmed dead the doctor will confirm you are dead.

Will some one mathematically prove to me when every one says you do not feel the pain when they start taking your organs because your brain is dead but your body will be alive?????????

This proves the doctor starts taking your organs before your brain is dead.