Do you carry this card?

The card being a Donor card, is it for all usable organs or specific ones?

Also are you...

A blood donor... is it for full bloods or platelets..

Would you or have you been a living donor? (given a kidney to someone)

Nope, my parts are mine.... I would rather my body not be cut up after I die (just in case i try to come back to life!...always nice to leave those options open).

As for blood...nope, i keep that inside too. Not because I'm against it, but because its creepy and I dont like feeling my blood oooze out of my body. I avoid even small blood samples for the same reason....

As for being a donor, perhaps. If it were someone I care a lot about. But not to some random person. I have a low opinion of general people, so am not really in a rush to try and help them (at least, not through sacrificing my organs).

Yep - whole blood donor.  Used to not do it because of small veins and the tendency of Red Cross workers not being able to get the stick on the first try.  After about 4 times in a row of a a collapsed vein and bruise that wouldn't go away for a week I stopped for a while.  After I lost a bunch of weight I started again, and it's not a problem.

While I don't have an organ donor card filled out yet, my hubby and I have had the conversation and he fully understands that should I become clinically brain dead, any part of me that can be used to help someone else should be. I certainly wouldn't be using them anymore, and I don't have as low of an opinion of the general population as lorik.

But I should get the back of my driver's license signed off and everything...

I would be willing to be a living donor, but in that case, for some reason, I would do that only for a close friend or family member.

I do it all.  Organ donor, blood donor...damn I wish there was a sperm bank in the area...I'd do that too :)

In my state, we have our "Donor" sticker on our driver's license.  That's for organ donation.  Our "blood donor" card is a separate card that I carry in my wallet.  I'm scheduled  to give blood again on May 5th.  Free cookies and juice!!!!!

I'm not sure what they take.  I think it's pretty much everything that can be "recycled".  Eyes, heart, lungs, liver...all that stuff.  If I can save a life, I'm all for it.  Death is devastating...especially when it's someone young that has been dealt a ****ty card.  Why not?

Ohio has the donor sticker on the driver's license as well. I'm a donor. 

i'm an organ donor (and in BC it's embedded in the DL; used to be a sticker), but i'm ineligible to donate blood products because i lived in the UK for a few months in 1989-90.  until there's a test for CJD, i won't be allowed to donate.

i'm not actually sure what that status does to my ability to donate organs.

i would be a living donor, if anyone wanted my stuff ;)

i'd also happily be a med-school cadaver.  after the fact, of course.

I am a full donor it is on my Indiana License. 

My husband has different views.. he says that if I die before him, they can have everything except my eyes.. It is kinda sweet, but he said that no-one can have my eyes because he couldn't bare to look into my eyes in someone else.

That's kind of spoooooky but very romantic...I'll have to remember that one :)

Donor here. Husband was too. The amount of tissue and organs they were able to use was astounding. It gave me an enormous amount of solace to know that although he died, he helped.

Yes. All usable.

Yes. O+ and I donate several times a year. My son had a transfusion in surgery after being hit by a car. If I can do the same for someone else's son or daughter, then good. My iron is generally borderline for platelet donation.

No with caveats. I would donate to my children without a second thought, but I would need an immediate reason to donate to anyone else to overcome my "selfish" desire to leave this world with all the organs I came in with.

I am a donor...and would let my kids be in the unthinkable happened.  It is the least we can do...we don't need them anymore.

I donate blood when I can...I tend to be anemic...

my girls are growing thier hair to donate to Lock of Love...

I'm a donor! It's on my drivers liscense (in NJ they ask you before they print it up so that it's printed on your liscense) so should something happen to me well hopefully something good can come out of it.  I've never donated blood, I'm not against it I've just never done it.....I'll have to look into that.  My thoughts on it are if I'm not using it then someone else should, as soon as my bmi gets under 29 then I'm donating eggs too, like I said if I'm not using it then someone else should.

My mother in law was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis a couple of years ago.  I watched as this once healthy determined woman decayed into this malnourished shadow of who she was.  She was on oxygen 100% of the time and just getting up out of bed was a struggle that sometimes she did not win.  In January, after 1 1/2 years on the donor list, our prayers were answered.  She received two lungs from a 13 year old girl.

It absolutely breaks my heart that this little girl died.  The guilt is tremendous.  But at the same time, that very hard decision that those parents made saved my mother in law's life.  She has gone through months of rehab and is actually coming home today.  She is completely off the oxygen (something she needed for years!) and works out more than I do.  It's amazing the transformation!

I never wanted to donate.  I just thought it was creepy that my whole body would not be buried together.  This experience not only opened my eyes, but it changed my mind.   If I'm willing to recieve a transplant to save my life, the least I could do is donate to save another's. 

I'll donate anything.  I donate blood every two months, am a registered organ donor, and am on the National Bone Marrow Registry.  I also donated 14 inches of hair to Locks of Love.

I'm an organ donor, and I have donated blood. It scares me though, because I'm afraid of needles! I'd donate to my mom, grama, boyfriend or close friends no questions asked.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

 i lived in the UK for a few months in 1989-90.  until there's a test for CJD, i won't be allowed to donate.

Wow that's quite interesting and something i was totally unaware of was a problem elsewhere. Obviously they can't refuse to accept blood here for that reason or there would be no blood bank.

Original Post by andie-1:

Original Post by pgeorgian:

 i lived in the UK for a few months in 1989-90.  until there's a test for CJD, i won't be allowed to donate.

Wow that's quite interesting and something i was totally unaware of was a problem else where. Obviously they can't refuse to accept blood here for that reason or there would be no blood bank.

Same for Germany. One of my friends was born there in 87 and lived there for a couple years before moving to the states. She can't donate blood either

In Kansas (and I think Missouri where I used to live as well) they ask you before they print your drivers license, so it's printed right on there.

I AM a donor.  When I die, I will have no need for my organs anymore, so go ahead and do with them what you will.  :D

Yay for organ and blood donations!

I'm an organ donor (in WA it's printed on our DL's too)

I donate blood when I'm eligible. You have to wait 12 months after getting a tattoo, so I've only been able to once in the past couple years. And I still have another 8 or 9 months until I can again! :[

Original Post by elfkittie22:

Original Post by andie-1:

Original Post by pgeorgian:

 i lived in the UK for a few months in 1989-90.  until there's a test for CJD, i won't be allowed to donate.

Wow that's quite interesting and something i was totally unaware of was a problem else where. Obviously they can't refuse to accept blood here for that reason or there would be no blood bank.

Same for Germany. One of my friends was born there in 87 and lived there for a couple years before moving to the states. She can't donate blood either

Yeah, my mother was in England in the 1980's and then moved to New Zealand, where she was allowed to donate for over a decade... and then changed the rules so she can no longer donate. Very strange!

I am a blood donor. I would donate most organs but I think I'd like to leave my head intact, thanks. I don't like the thought of being a corpse without my eyes. New Zealand had a scandal in the 1990's where many stillborn's and dead newborn babies' hearts and tongues were removed - they were either donated or used for research. I can't imagine the pain of the parents when they found out.

Blood and organs for me.  I haven't been around to donate a few units in a while because I work too much (you'd think it'd be easier now that the blood drives come to me at work!), but after we're done and recovered from this pregnancy, I'm taking Alex's chicken arse down and we're both giving up some juices.

He'll be changing his ID to state DONOR when it expires in October.  I changed mine to state the same when I got a new one last year.  I see a lot of otherwise perfectly healthy young'uns croak at work and their families can't bear to divvy up their organs for the benefit of someone else.  If my stuff is still working, pass it on to whoever needs it.  I'm not sure I ever want my face donated, though.  I'd kind of like to be burned with that.

As for live donation, I'd prefer to NOT put myself at risk of death unless it's for my own family, someone I like and respect, who deserves a better chance than the one they were given.  I wouldn't give up a kidney or half a liver to my 75 year old grandparent, but I would in a heart beat to my way awesome husband or my child if they didn't piss me off that week.

Now, bone marrow?  As much as I don't like pains in my ass, I've thought about putting my specimen on the table and see if anyone can use it someday.