How we're slipping up our good intentions

About 1400 Australians are waiting for a transplant, with a further 11,000 on dialysis, and 90 per cent of the population supports organ/tissue donation. But … only one in three are on the National Organ Donor registry.

In National Donate Life Week, the message is clear – if you do not object to being an organ/tissue donor, register now.

You can do this by:

  • Using your Medicare online account through the myGov website
  • Using the Express Plus Medicare mobile app
  • Registering through the online form on the DonateLife website
  • Downloading a registration form from the Department of Human Services website
  • Phoning 1800 777 203 (Mon-Fri, 8.30am–5pm local time)
  • Requesting a registration form to be mailed to you by emailing your full name and postal address to aodr@humanservices.gov.au.

 

New statistics show Tasmania has the second highest rate (48 per cent) of registered organ and tissue donors in the country. South Australia has the highest percentage of donors at 67 per cent, while Northern Territory has the lowest at 12 per cent.

Donate Life Tasmanian executive officer Davin Hibberd said the possibility of people actually becoming organ donors was quite rare, which is why more registrations were needed.

“Fewer than two per cent of people who pass away in hospital end up being able to go on and donate, due to the finite clinical criteria that supports organ and tissue donations,” he said.

“It takes less than a minute to register on the donor register and that provides clinicians in the hospitals with a really definitive decision with your wish to be an organ donor.”

In 2018, 1782 lives were transformed due to the generosity of 554 deceased and 238 living organ donors and their families.

3 comments

 

You can't make use of it when you're gone..so might as well help someone in need. Karma works in strange ways..someone might help your child or granchild later on down the track of life.

You can have your body frozen and when they thaw you out they may have the cure for what you have died from.

Alternatively you can have your body turned into a compost and help to grow a tree ...far more usefull 

You'll be eating those words when you need a new brain!

Reagan

Are you offering Image result for emoji animated gif

I'll leave instructions for them to rearrange the connections etc, so you can handle my excellent IQ

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Hahahaaa Suze - how good would that be - to have ya' body frozen?  Noooooooooo way!!

A.  It costs approx. $200,000 plus to do that!

B.  There is No guarantee they can bring you back to life!

C.  By the time "anyone" finds you - technology will have evolved far into the future and they may not know "what" they have found and throw you away in your canister!  lol

D.  Why would anyone want to "return from the dead"?  You would not know a soul - have no money - be homeless  etc. etc. -  the whole world (as you knew it when alive) would have changed dramatically - that's if there "is" still a world?

E.  You could/would be experimented on by "crazy" scientists!  (and never be "free") ......

F.   Want me to go on...........................?    lolololol  

I have heard that many people have decided on the world of Cryonics after their death.  Wonder what they expect if "awoken"?  Ugh be awful IMO -  Kinda' like a "horror movie" scenario!   Gross!

(Bit "off Topic" sorry....)

Foxy

Living in the cold Melbourne weather, I can see why you would be so averse to cryonics  LOL  

Hahahahaaaaaaaaa .... you just cracked me up!  Sooooo funny ..........

This sis a serious issue and should not be taken lighly. People must have this discussion with  family. Makes things clearer for them when they are asked

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