rt

Not my area but believe the liver is a tough as hell and will happily grow
from a coupla cells if it is fed rum.

Compliments to your bro' but tell the silly bugger not to do it again - too
many obsolete Pommy HOS a/c about as it is, without encouraging others to
fly 'em <sigh>

(Yep - on my license as well - tho I gotta say any poor bastard gets any of
my bits will be a bit unlucky as I think just about everything has passed
it's 'use by' date :-)

mitchell schaeffer

pieces that she was not born with.
Yes i'm a donor too.
Mitchell

stealth pilot

my licence has been thusly endorsed since the inception of the idea.
I just have this hard maintained state of good health in the way and
that's the way I'm keeping it :-)

Stealth Pilot

vh-cbr

I may have this wrong but I thought he died of a massive heart attack
brought on by the attack? If so ,the heart wasn't used. However they can
use the arteries or whatever they call those things that go into the heart.

Anyway . .onto donation .. my problem is the lack of distinction between
organ donation for use and for medical research. It's one thing to donate
to save the lives of others and quite another to find that your loved ones
brain is sitting in a jar in a medical research facility. I note they
don't discuss that aspect of it when they are out begging for donations.

paul repacholi

"VH-CBR" <fake@mail.com> writes:


Totally different deals. Organ donations are not used for research or
teaching unless there has been a specific release agreed by the
family.

Some cases with inquest/post-mortem being retained have been cleaned
up and proper permisions etc put in place.

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coop

Tell me more. First I've heard of this.

Coop


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dn

<SNIP>

Let me reassure you, that any body part finding its way into research is
treated with great dignity. Anatomy Departments are not like butcher shops
or abators. Much of modern surgical techniques, drugs, clinical
investigations used to save our lives, manage trauma and such like, have
their beginnings in a AD lab. It is obvious that cremated or buried organs
benefit no one and are not missed by the deceased. And there is a great deal
more work of medical discovery for Anatomy Departments .

Thank you Coop and the many other folk reminding us we have marvellous
things to share when we pass on. RIP David.

DN

stealth pilot

The anatomy department which I have enjoyed learning in at Curtin Uni
gets specific bequests for research and anatomy purposes. It isnt
something random.
I can assure you it is worth it as a student to be able to see and
prod around in a body. many are the organ arrangements which dont
depict well in 2d. lifting the organs out of the way to see just what
the cisterna chyli looks like is priceless if you are studying the
lymph system for instance. seeing how a uterus sits in a pelvis,
you'll never figure it out fully using any text book.

after death a loved one lives in your memory.
the body should be put to better use than cremation imho.
Stealth ( second year nursing student) Pilot

jd

I don't think that was the case - I seem to remember a news item about life
support being switched off, which would indicate the heart was working.

Organ donation is completely separate from donating your body for research
or an autopsy.

And I have looked at the whole question, as my wife died while waiting for
lungs. This is the sort of "rumour" that leads Australia to have just
about the lowest rate of organ donation in the civilised world.
Of course, my licence is marked, but the problem is that under the law in
most, if not all, states, the decision is with the next of kin, regardless
of the expressed wishes of the deceased.
JD

vh-cbr

Others have suggested this has changed so i'm looking into that, but it used
to be that a signature for donation covered donation for implant AND
donation for medical science... I'm all for donation for implant and
absolutely against donation for medical science (ie, jar in the basement
where one of my relatives brains currently resides > )

However, if it has truly changed .. well, back onto the donor list for us
.....