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switchlogic:
I’m with you there. Well done. Wouldn’t want an overpaid doctor saving a life now would we.Nice to see you’ve based your life and death decisions on such solid factual evidence.
When I was young, naive & stupid, just like you but without the young bit, then I didn’t much care about the technical details.
Nowadays I’m older, very much wiser & in a position to question what everyone else seems to think is the norm’, what you’d call reality . . . if you like.
What I don’t want, is a doctor using my organs on a patient that is paying them X£1000’s of pounds without a value also being put on my organs.
I think that a doctor working within the NHS is a wonderful thing, I think that a doctor that earns upwards of £40k from an arab sheik that needs a new kidney is possibly not worthy of my freely donated organs.
Gave 50 donations then got a tattoo for my 40th so that stopped me for a year , then went on holiday to Tunisia its on the banned list (malaria risk, BUT wait for this ask your Dr about jags/tablets to take for malaria and they say its fine!!!) so need to wait another year , pain in the arse
PS personaly i would be a bit p eed off if my blood/plasma was sold
So… Who’s in favour of the organ donor issue being “opt out” rather than “opt in”? 
Winseer:
So… Who’s in favour of the organ donor issue being “opt out” rather than “opt in”?
It’s a question that I think shouldn’t need to be asked, yet we need to ask it?
Why can’t we create a world where it’s a given that we leave bits of our bodies behind, without that implicite trust being walked all over by the greedy ■■■■■■■■ amongst us?
Winseer:
So… Who’s in favour of the organ donor issue being “opt out” rather than “opt in”?
I am actually - as long as they wait until I’m dead 
Couldn’t give a toss what they do with my body parts once I’ve shuffled off, if they can use them to help others, go for it.
Gary
Chas:
Why can’t we create a world where it’s a given that we leave bits of our bodies behind, without that implicite trust being walked all over by the greedy [zb] amongst us?
I sure hope you or your loved ones (if there are any) never need a transplant
kr79:
I have in the past and will be eligible to again next month as you cant give blood for a year after having a tattoo done.
I asked about being a blood donor but was told I couldn’t, ever, because I have tattoos. This was recently, when I was in the UK. I am O- too.
milodon:
Chas:
Why can’t we create a world where it’s a given that we leave bits of our bodies behind, without that implicite trust being walked all over by the greedy [zb] amongst us?I sure hope you or your loved ones (if there are any) never need a transplant
I’m AB- blood group, remember !
I gave my niece, my sisters daughter, 2 pints during a difficult childbirth. Difficult because of an inexperienced (foreign) doctors negligence during a delivery that went badly wrong.
My blood was once flown to Canada & kept an 8yr old luekemia victim alive long enuff for the medication to ‘kick in’.
At about the same time I was on the bone marrow register, cos my rare blood group translates to that too. They came for me at the ungodly hour of somewhere around 4am. I’m not allowed to know who the recipient was but I’m told they desperately needed it & they thoroughly well deserved it.
Please come back to me with your evidence of my ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
Chas:
switchlogic:
I’m with you there. Well done. Wouldn’t want an overpaid doctor saving a life now would we.Nice to see you’ve based your life and death decisions on such solid factual evidence.
When I was young, naive & stupid, just like you but without the young bit, then I didn’t much care about the technical details.
Nowadays I’m older, very much wiser & in a position to question what everyone else seems to think is the norm’, what you’d call reality . . . if you like.
What I don’t want, is a doctor using my organs on a patient that is paying them X£1000’s of pounds without a value also being put on my organs.
I think that a doctor working within the NHS is a wonderful thing, I think that a doctor that earns upwards of £40k from an arab sheik that needs a new kidney is possibly not worthy of my freely donated organs.
Way to lose a debate. I didn’t read past the first line. Top tip, if you want to put your point across so someone may listen don’t insult them like your a kid in a school playground. Good luck with that. You may be older but still fairly stupid it’s clear to see.
So I think that’s 1 all
To answer the question in the title, they don’t want my blood, I’m the wrong type of person…
switchlogic:
Way to lose a debate. I didn’t read past the first line. Top tip, if you want to put your point across so someone may listen don’t insult them like your a kid in a school playground. Good luck with that. You may be older but still fairly stupid it’s clear to see.So I think that’s 1 all
I don’t think that it is possible to have a debate with yourself, so please don’t insinuate that it is.
I don’t care that you don’t care for my opinion, I don’t even care that you don’t care. I don’t even care that you claim to have not read beyond my first line, even if any moron could see that you did.
I don’t even care that you think we’re both kids in a school playground, if you think that then obviously one of us is still there !
I went to give blood last year,not a concious decision,they were in the supermarket car park when I went in for some messages on the way home from work. Went in filled out the form and a wee bit was taken for testing.
I was then told I couldn’t give blood for 2 reasons. 1. I am a truck driver who would be driving the next day and 2. I have pustulating psoriasis (sounds horrible,but it’s just white bits of scaly skin. )
They keep sending me letters saying when and where I can give blood. But I can’t because of 1 & 2 above.
Chas:
switchlogic:
Way to lose a debate. I didn’t read past the first line. Top tip, if you want to put your point across so someone may listen don’t insult them like your a kid in a school playground. Good luck with that. You may be older but still fairly stupid it’s clear to see.So I think that’s 1 all
I don’t think that it is possible to have a debate with yourself, so please don’t insinuate that it is.
I don’t care that you don’t care for my opinion, I don’t even care that you don’t care. I don’t even care that you claim to have not read beyond my first line, even if any moron could see that you did.
I don’t even care that you think we’re both kids in a school playground, if you think that then obviously one of us is still there !
Who mentioned debating yourself? As for your ‘don’t cares’ it seems you’re the one still in a playground, it makes you sound like a petulant teenager. ‘I JUST DON’T CARE, I HATE YOU MUM’
EDIT- did you mean it’s not possible to have a debate with me? In which case ‘you’ wold have made more sense than ‘yourself’. But that wouldn’t suit you(rself) now would it? You’re in that select group of Trucknet members who has a (unfounded) very high opinion of their own intelligence and thinks they can manifest this by using longer words than is really necessary. It doesn’t make you look clever, just a bit full of yourself.
Have a lovely weekend. I trust you won’t reply as its not possible to debate me due to your vastly superior intellegence. Lots of love x
Angela, whoever told you the tattoo thing is full of it. I’ve got 14 and counting, given blood for years. You are not supposed to give for a year after having a tattoo, all to do with the transfer of dodgy fluids from needles I believe.
switchlogic:
To answer the question in the title, they don’t want my blood, I’m the wrong type of person…
What type of person do you have to be to be refused? I’m guessing here that your lifestyle may pose a risk, but thats different to “a type of person”.
I don’t donate because i faint at the sight of needles coming near me, others are not bothered by a little prick !! 
This is separate from our own blood donation service, and was bought only a couple of years ago to secure blood supplies in this country by buying blood from abroad.
just a slight correwction.
It was brought in late 2002 and started coming in by 2003.
Initially it was not because of a shortage of blood but was a secure supply of blood free of any possible HBSE contamination to be used on children aged 6 or less who (it was supposed) had never been exposed to HBSE.
As far as I know there still isn’t a test available for HBSE, so any blood sourced in the UK is a potential risk (very very slight).
Slackbladder:
Angela, whoever told you the tattoo thing is full of it. I’ve got 14 and counting, given blood for years. You are not supposed to give for a year after having a tattoo, all to do with the transfer of dodgy fluids from needles I believe.
Tbh, I can’t remember exactly who told me. It was a nurse in the treatment room, either here in Ontario, or in Lancashire. She said absolutely NO! Did think she was a bit dismissive, but I never bothered to look into.
Thanks for the info though. Definitely something I am going to look into now. 
del949:
This is separate from our own blood donation service, and was bought only a couple of years ago to secure blood supplies in this country by buying blood from abroad.
just a slight correwction.
It was brought in late 2002 and started coming in by 2003.
Initially it was not because of a shortage of blood but was a secure supply of blood free of any possible HBSE contamination to be used on children aged 6 or less who (it was supposed) had never been exposed to HBSE.
As far as I know there still isn’t a test available for HBSE, so any blood sourced in the UK is a potential risk (very very slight).
Ah fair enough, I was listening to the radio and doing something else at the time so misheard parts clearly.
Mike-C:
switchlogic:
To answer the question in the title, they don’t want my blood, I’m the wrong type of person…What type of person do you have to be to be refused? I’m guessing here that your lifestyle may pose a risk, but thats different to “a type of person”.
I don’t donate because i faint at the sight of needles coming near me, others are not bothered by a little prick !!
Er… awkward 
It’s a point though (and the one about tattoos) - the list of exemptions on the pre-donation form is crazy and does make me think a bit - like you’d hope many of the things they exempt people for would be tested for before any blood is used anyway - you could cut yerself and get infections or be harbouring all sorts of disorders and not know it to declare it. Without wanting to start a thing about outdated statistics, to exempt a whole set of people seems crazy, except perhaps for people who’ve shared needles etc or recently been to countries with exotic parasites and stuff…
I’ve given about twenty pints over the years, gave last week in fact. I used to be careful when I was driving full time - didn’t give if I was working that night etc.