Hey,

There are billions of people in this world but still people die because there was No organ available or no blood available. I mean how is that possible when there are so many people who can easily pass the requirements for donation. I have donated my body to a hospital so that after I die they can claim my body for practice or any kind of a medical venture. Heck! they can do whatever with my body after I die except my eyes for they too are donated so that it can help somebody in some way.

I do not think that our planet is so filled with disease that it is difficult to get body parts. There are crimes where people end up killing and stealing organs for money or for someone they know. I would love to know your thoughts.

I totally have to agree with you!

I'm in high school and at our high schools we have blood drives and everyone ages 16+ have the chance to donate and i donate every blood drive. I ask some people, why don't you donate blood, and i get many excuses. One of which is because they are religious and don't think they should give up something that 'god' gave to them. meh.

i also get excuses like, i just don't want to. or 'i think the govt does tests on the blood they shouldn't be doing, so i don't donate my blood.'

in California, on the back of drivers license applications there is a box that people have the option to check to sign up for the organ donor registry and i personally think that everyone should check it. because you can have the opportunity to save someones life, or when they call you up to ask you about it you can reject them.

I donate blood through a program called blood source, and they also accept other donations like bone marrow etc... and once i turn the age to donate things other than blood i defiantly plan to do that, and i think everyone should but unfortunately other people don't. and it's kinda really really sad.

My reason that I can not donate blood is I have a low count of B antigen or something like that. Other than that I'm good. I was sad I couldn't give blood and plus I gave a pint or so of blood for nothing. lol. I don't really know how much I gave. It was a whole bag. For body parts I would donate myself when i die. I mean what use do I have of them when I die. The doctors can use it to save another humans life.

But some reasons maybe because of religious beliefs. I know my grandma is Buddhist and I asked her about donating her organs and she told me she would have to some higher power that question. I guess maybe some sign will tell her she could or could not donate her organs if someone needed them. I still don't get her answer. haha Maybe ignorance of the donation can be a possibility. Maybe not enough about it is advertised or said. Than sometimes people are just scared of donating blood because of the needles or blood itself. You would think that people would donate blood for a greater good but they just make up excuses or lazy. Ehh that's all i could come up with.

Hi,

I agree with the two of you, Somehow everybody has to justify because they are scared or something. I had a friend who was hated the sight of blood but once there was an accident near our place and the guy needed blood urgently and no kidding the amount of blood that he had spilled was a lot and because she was "O" type and healthy she could have left with the ambulance to donate but she just stood there cribbing on the fact that it hurts and all that kind of rubbish. It was pathetic for that man was dying and she was just thinking about some petty thing.

Rather than stupid issues like celebrity divorces and all I think they should concentrate more on donation camps and educate people on every step rather than just begging people to donate for I think they would donate if they knew what they were doing. One of my seniors used to take his own needles for blood donation but he would always go and donate. He would sometimes carry lots of extras in case there were others who wanted it or the donation camp wanted it. But I guess this problem might be solved if stem cell technology unfortunately though people who might need a body part urgently might not be as lucky if the problem of donation is not solved.

Well to put it bluntly with the organs you basically have to be dead or dying, because you have one of each except for the lungs and kidney and if your still living that won't help as much as the other person. With blood thats a bit trickier do to the fact that most blood cannot be accepted due to millions of reasons and most of them fall in the lines of some sort of disease that makes the blood bad and so that is the only legit excuse people will have. Of course the got the normal excuses such as I don't want or I am to busy ands stuff. For me though I don't trust blood banks because you don't know how clean they are and I wouldn't like the fact that I somehow caught a rare disease because of some dirty needle. I will admit not all blood banks are like that but I can't trust a needle that I don't see for myself or if the building they are in is worse the the outside is.

Wow. I didn't know that people actually stole other people's body parts. Now I am affraid to go to sleep to night. Well I'm not donating my whole body to science, but I am donnating all my organs to science and organ donation. I mean, when you die and you say you want a proper burial, and you dont say you are an organ doner, think of all the organs you are wasting. Somebody could have used those! It makes me sick, thinking about that little six-year-old girl in pig tails, lying on her death bed, just because she couldn't get a kidney. So If it is not in your will, go right there right now and put "Organ doner" on it. You don't have to do anything huge like donate your body to science, even the smallest effort helps. Hell, now you can donate your kidney or lung and live to tell your grandchildren about it. As soon as I turn six-teen, I'm donating blood.

I'd give my blood & (some) organs if i had the chance, knowing that i've helped someone else would give me a rush (kinda like crack does (lol i wouldn't know)).

Part of the problem of people dying due to failing organs is, not only the unwillingness to donate of so many people, but also mistakes made by hospital staff, accidents (e.g. dropping the organs - although unlikely could happen) and rare blood types.

I have chronic infections, so I can't donate blood. If I ever get those cleared up...and if I go more than six months without getting a new tat...I'll be good to go. I'm type A+, so it's not like my blood is in high demand or anything...but still.

Some religions forbid blood donation. One group - I want to say Jehovah's Witnesses - believe that sin is in our blood. So...no donating or receiving blood.

As for organ donation: when I'm dead, I'm not going to need my body anymore. Let somebody else have whatever can be salvaged and reused.