Maybe you smokers should think twice about carrying a donor card – don’t want to get blamed for giving someone else your death, eh?
And you fatties and drinkers, don’t think you will get away with it – your organs could be doing untold damage to the new host and you will be blamed posthumously for it, just you wait and see.
Best not to give them away in the first place.
Ripped up my donor card when the smoker ban came in. I discovered that some fuckers are just ungrateful so I decided to spare them the angst.
CR.
“Our perfect daughter was taken from us when she had a long and happy life in front of her – apart from that debilitating cystic fibrosis, that is”
The Daily comes through in spades in the comments: “What’s the bl**dy point of putting a smoker’s lungs into a 27 year old woman with everything to live for.”
Yes, she would have otherwise had hours of bliss sucking on that there nebuliser and asking for help to stand up.
Feast on your misery, rattle your tin, see what you can wring out of the NHS. I am holding onto my corneas in case all the pr0n I have watched turn a recipient into Jimmy Savile – who was a an evil smoker too.
” The disease had also claimed the life of her older brother Richard Granne when he was just 23″
There’s gratitude for you.
I also dispensed with the donor card when the antismoking started. They can’t use my lungs, they can’t use my liver because of the whisky and they can’t use my eyes because I have looked at scary things.
All of it is going to rot away. And the Puritans can stay in their machine- and chemical-supported agony for the rest of their lives.
The usual journalistic tactic of trading on the distress of the parents.
What is the BBC’s angle? Is it trying to stop lung transplants of smokers’ lungs ON PRINCIPLE? Regardless of the ensuing deaths?
Oh….Hang on…… Is there compensation to be had one wonders?
“Oh….Hang on…… Is there compensation to be had one wonders?”
Yes. The parants can pay back the cost of the treatment to get her past the 23 years her brother lived. And refund the tobacco taxes the donor had paid for O2 cylinders when he was 78, having fallen off his motorcycle at the age of 30.
And compensate the poor bastards who will be declined, or will decline a transplant because of this selfish woman and her paper-chasing family.
There is one thing they are right about. We need more non-smoking organ donors. Immediately after they have been hanged.
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I have disposed of my doner card, I have informed the issuer of the card that I am no longer a doner and I have changed my living will to state that no part of my body is to be used for any form of transplant or any other medical purposes.
If you want to know just how ill-informed many people are, read some of the comments made at the end of this article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2249189/Cystic-fibrosis-sufferer-Jennifer-Wederell-given-smokers-lungs-transplant-dies-cancer.html#comments
Prof Stephen Spiro, honorary medical adviser at the British Lung Foundation said: “It’s very difficult to say why the cancer developed.
“It is seriously possible that the cancer may have started in the lung before transplantation, but it was so small there was no chance of spotting it.
“Recipients of transplants are immunosuppressed, to stop the body rejecting the organ – this may have encouraged the cancer to grow. But is (sic)no one really knows- these are just theories.”
So umm…good luck proving anything. Compensation will be paid as a silencer and not as an admission of fact 😐
Prof Stephen Spiro, honorary medical adviser at the British Lung Foundation said: “It’s very difficult to say why the cancer developed.
Nonsense! Everybody KNOWS it was because of the huge increase in CO2, causing Global Warming which incubated the cancer cells. Oh, and eating meat…
Everything will be all right, just so long as we keep paying the taxes and contributing to my charity – “Donations from Everyone for a Better Tomorrow”
The principle is simple. So long as you pay me all your money, and get into DEBT on my behalf – I will guarantee to promise you a better tomorrow…
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Yes, my donor card is history too. I carried it for years in my purse, even after anti-smoking came along, but when the old purse gave up the ghost, the donor card went the same way. Shame really because even if my lungs might be suspect, as a smoker, (although all seems to be well in that area), pretty much all of the rest of me is in perfect working order and would probably do a needy recipient a good job for many years, should I meet my maker earlier than anticipated. But, hey, they started this game – I’m just following the rules they made for it.
It makes a mockery of the “lung” warning pictures, though, doesn’t it? If smokers’ lungs really were as tar-ridden and blackened as they’d have us believe, there’d be no chance on earth that any doctor worth his salt would consider using them on anyone else, tissue match or no tissue match.
I commented on this story in the Telegraph saying that as a smoker I would be sure not to donate my organs as they are not wanted.
Someone replied saying that was the whole problem with this article. They are wanted, they are needed from smokers or not. She had had a transplant that saved her life and she was given all the facts including the increased risk of cancer.
Not all folk are bad, but while this entire lifestyle crusade is being pushed on us I have no intention of donating my organs, even on the off chance they do end up with someone who deserves them.
I once had a donor card and specified that I was a donor in my SOS Talisman. I destroyed the card and removed the entry on the talisman some while back. Organ donation is a gift freely given. The more hysterical the donation campaign has become (to the point of the state taking over in the form of opt-out in Wales), the less inclined I am to give.
Never had a Donor Card in the first place. Simple reason really. I want the bloody doctors to work their arses off keeping me alive if some terrible accident happens to me, rather than look upon me as a smorgasbord of organs that they can do as they damned well please with.