by Fiona Mather

Created on: January 06, 2009

Firstly,here in the U.K. I think the present system is ambiguous as there are people who are willing for their organs to be used after their death for transplant but for one reason or another have not made their wishes known in a definite way ie, stressed to their loved ones that they specifically want their organs to be used for the good of other people or have not got round to joining the Organ Donor Register. However I think that your relations still need to know of your wishes as well as being on the register, but I may be wrong. They may say no to organ donation when in fact the dead person may have said yes. This situation can lead to organs not being used and someone whose life could have been saved or vastly improved will suffer needlessly. An opt-out system would go along way to improve this situation. After people had been made aware by a campaign to bring this into being then an opt-out system has surely got to be a better system. Then there would be only people who for whatever reason, maybe religious, or otherwise who would be on this register.

I think it would be beneficial to the many children and adults awaiting transplants and for whom many die as a result of waiting too long before they even have a chance of receiving a transplant. How often do we hear about there being so few organs and doctors having to play God and decide who needs it most, surely all those waiting deserve to have the same chance.How much better would it be for the people desperately waiting to hear that their time has come to receive a transplant if their chances were dramatically increased because there would be a better system in place. No, this would not mean surgeons hanging over dying patients scalpel at the ready. What it would mean is that there would be a bigger pool of organs to be donated, therefore more people could be given transplants without having to suffer the indignity of waiting for months or years with little or no quality of life.

Here in Britain death and donating organs is a taboo subject which means that if you, or a member of your family or one of your friends is in this situation then most other people will have no concept of what you are experiencing. For people in this position, this is why debating this subject and implementing a better system, in my view, would vastly benefit many people, and after all who knows who will be in need of this service in the future, I or indeed anyone reading this may well find themselves needing a transplant in

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