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ThePeter
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I was reading this article about how a Japanese scientist grew a monkey pancreas in a sheep's belly (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6222361.ece ) and I saw this little stat:

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"Japan defines death as the point when the heart permanently stops. The concept of brain death — the phase at which organs can most effectively be harvested from donors — does exist, but organs cannot be extracted at that point.

The long-term effect of the legal definition has been striking: organ donation in Japan is virtually nonexistent, forcing many people to travel abroad in search of transplants. In the United States, the rate of organ donors per million people is about 27; in Japan it is under 0.8.

The effect, say paediatricians, has been especially severe for children. The same law that discounts brain death as suitable circumstances for organ donation broadly prevents children under 15 from allowing their organs to be harvested. "


Only 27 out of 1 million people are organ donors? That can't be right

I'm an organ donor

From wikipedia:

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"In the overwhelming majority of cases, organ donation is not possible for reasons of recipient safety, match failures, or organ condition. Even in Spain, which has the highest organ donation rate in the world, there are only 35.1 actual donors per million people, and there are hundreds of patients on the waiting list. [17] This rate compares to 24.8 per million in Austria, where families are rarely asked to donate organs, and 22.2 per million in France, which -- like Spain -- has a presumed-consent system."


[Edited on May 5, 2009 at 12:28 AM. Reason : weird]


Some medical journal

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"For the last 3 years, the number of living organ donors has exceeded the number of deceased donors, according to the Canadian Organ Replacement Registry of the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The number of living donors doubled from 1994 to 2001 but has since levelled out to an overall rate of 13.8 per 1 million Canadians. The highest living organ donor rate occurred in Alberta, where there were 19.3 living organ donors per 1 million people. Quebec had the lowest rate at 6.9 per 1 million population.

The 2003 overall cadaveric donor rate in Canada was 13.5 per million population, a rate that has remained steady over the last decade. The rate of cadaveric organ donors is highest in Quebec and Saskatchewan at 19.0 per million population and lowest in British Columbia with a rate of 9.4.

Almost three quarters (73%) of the patients on organ waiting lists required kidney transplants. Last year, 250 patients died while waiting for new organs: 82 were waiting for a kidney, 100 for a liver, 30 for a heart, 26 for a lung and 12 for other organs.

The total number of transplants rose from 1473 in 1994 to 1804 in 2003, but the rate of heart transplants has remained between 4.9 and 6.2 per million population over the past decade.

There has, however, been an increase in the number of lung and heart–lung transplants, which averaged 127 during the last 4 years compared to 86 during the previous 4 "


[Edited on May 5, 2009 at 12:30 AM. Reason : lol canada]

5/5/2009 12:25:54 AM

grimx
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5/5/2009 12:26:40 AM

Mr. Joshua
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time for an orgasm donor thread

5/5/2009 12:27:04 AM

jtmartin
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there's a few people i'd donate my organ to if you know what i mean

5/5/2009 12:27:12 AM

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5/5/2009 12:27:33 AM

khcadwal
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i am

5/5/2009 12:27:41 AM

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5/5/2009 12:27:56 AM

GroundBeef
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I'm an organ donor, how can I change it back?

5/5/2009 12:28:01 AM

AndyMac
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Probably meant 100

I'm an organ donar

5/5/2009 12:28:16 AM

Ragged
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i too will give someone my Ragged organs

5/5/2009 12:29:24 AM

GroundBeef
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HOW DO I CHANGE IT BACK

THE ORGANS ARE MINE

5/5/2009 12:29:30 AM

Ragged
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they ask you every time you renew your DL at DMV

5/5/2009 12:30:27 AM

ThePeter
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Maybe it means like, actual organ donations, meaning the person died and was in condition to donate?

5/5/2009 12:31:06 AM

Bweez
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yeah i think it means people that have actually given other people organs.

but tl;dr

5/5/2009 12:32:09 AM

ThePeter
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Well it was shorter, but I kept adding shit I found to it

5/5/2009 12:32:38 AM

GrimReap3r
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This almost cant be true, I have spent time in and around a morgue and funeral home and I find it pretty much impossible to believe that statistic

Hell I used to see a guy from the NC Eye Bank like once or twice a week as he "processed" remains

5/5/2009 1:03:53 AM

jetskipro
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yep. if i'm dead, i obviously don't need it. harvest away.

5/5/2009 1:06:25 AM

sawahash
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I am....I hope that one day I can donate my eyes to someone who needs to see...cause they will totally love my eyes, you never know what color to expect when you wake up in the morning.

5/5/2009 1:06:46 AM

brainysmurf
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very few people understand the concept of brain death

there are a few organs that can be procured after the heart stops beating........mostly the liver and kidney........and tissues.


there are still a lot of misconceptions out there about the donation process.

its unfortunate.

5/5/2009 1:13:30 AM

mcfluffle
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yes, though i´m unsure about the rightness of it

5/5/2009 1:22:46 AM

Mr. Joshua
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i hope that one of my organs is pure evil so that at least one donation turns into some serious Stephen King shit

5/5/2009 1:25:25 AM

richthofen
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I thought I heard that just putting organ donor on your license doesn't actually make you a donor, there are other forms/legal proceedings that need to be taken care of for it to actually be valid? Plus if your family/next of kin object, that trumps the license thing too I think.

5/5/2009 1:33:39 AM

Mindstorm
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I am not. I was told I cannot donate blood because I have diabetes which, in turn, means I cannot donate my other organs. The primary stuff people would want to have are probably severely affected by my condition anyway. Kidneys especially.

5/5/2009 1:38:57 AM

JBaz
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I would donate my organs, but I'm a simple robot made my Honda... And no way those damn fascists at Toyota will ever get my parts.

5/5/2009 1:45:32 AM

Matlock
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yes, don't see why anyone wouldn't be.

^^besides in cases like that

[Edited on May 5, 2009 at 1:47 AM. Reason : .]

5/5/2009 1:46:38 AM

the decider
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i am

5/5/2009 2:18:16 AM

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5/5/2009 2:19:03 AM

GroundBeef
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I'd rather give my organs to my parents so they could live longer.

Or let them sell them on the black market and get rich.

[Edited on May 5, 2009 at 2:20 AM. Reason : why would i give them away for free]

5/5/2009 2:19:50 AM

casummer
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DJ Shadow

5/5/2009 2:20:38 AM

GroundBeef
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I wonder how much you could sell a kidney for, let alone a heart.

5/5/2009 2:22:13 AM

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