05 Feb 04
Originally posted by AcolyteI would be a bit diplomatic and say to the person its not possible to determin where the organ goes due to the matching system. But my thoughts would be i hope they go to someone in need no matter what culture.
Suppose you're organising an organ donation programme, and someone comes to you and says I want my organs to be available for donation when I die, on condition that they only get transplanted into white people. How would you respond?
05 Feb 04
Originally posted by AcolyteThis in fact did happen and there was a bit of a furore about it. It was a few years ago at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield:
Suppose you're organising an organ donation programme, and someone comes to you and says I want my organs to be available for donation when I die, on condition that they only get transplanted into white people. How would you respond?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/652132.stm
In practice they would probably go to a white person anyway, since there is a vastly superior chance of the organ being a correct match if it from a donor belonging to the same ethnic group.
05 Feb 04
say sure thing and sign him up , when he is dead who cares what he thinks..... its a bit like the story the young wife who had an extremly rich elderly husband who requested that he would be buried with all his money... when he died a week later the wife fullfilled her husbands last wish... she wrote him a cheque for the full amount and placed it in his coffin as they put him in the ground 😉