Organ consent questions still

2:33pm Monday 20th August 2012 in Letters

FURTHER to the letter from Shaun McGuire (August 13), concerning presumed consent of organ donations, like the song says ‘there are more questions than answers’.

How do you opt out? This must be the best-kept secret in Wales. Will presumed consent apply to ethnic minorities in practice? Doubtful, and if not is this not a form of inverted discrimination? It’s always been my understanding that if it does not belong to you, don’t take it.

The loss of a loved one is bad enough but to turn up at the hospital and find they have been gutted like a fish, it’s enough to push people over the edge and they just might kick off big time and it’s understandable.

Further to Shaun McGuire’s letter, just why does the Ministry of Defence need to keep body parts of soldiers killed on active service? The cause of death is obvious – killed in action.

David Sleight, Greenfield, Newbridge

Comments(6)

brian819@btinternet.com says...
3:12pm Mon 20 Aug 12

It's about time this stupidity is knocked on the head once and for all. If people want to donate their organs , that's fine, if they do not, that's also fine, but having to opt-out is not. The welsh government are making a mistake in thrusting this matter down our throats when there is not even a fail-safe method to be put in place for opt-outs to ensure that their wishes are obeyed. Give it up, Welsh Government, there are many other projects that you can pursue that will not upset so many people.

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melaniew says...
3:47pm Mon 20 Aug 12

Gutted like a fish - oh please! This person obviously has no understanding of the process of organ donation. It is not a five minute procedure. Specialist Nurses talk to the family and help them come to whatever decision is right for the family and the person who is sadly dying or dead. No one is gutted like a fish or any other living creature.

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Mervyn James says...
5:44pm Mon 20 Aug 12

Soooooo quick to demean opponents to presumed consent, why ? Thee IS no organ donation unless we agree to it, that's it, got it ? I'll continue to oppose PC ! (double jeopardy there).

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papa says...
10:17pm Mon 20 Aug 12

melaniew wrote:
Gutted like a fish - oh please! This person obviously has no understanding of the process of organ donation. It is not a five minute procedure. Specialist Nurses talk to the family and help them come to whatever decision is right for the family and the person who is sadly dying or dead. No one is gutted like a fish or any other living creature.
I certainly know that my sons body was used as a butchery exercise and nothing else!

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Mervyn James says...
8:38am Tue 21 Aug 12

It is clear there is concern and opposition to presumed consent,and also clear the Assembly is choosing to ignore this.

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liverbird1975 says...
3:27pm Tue 21 Aug 12

I'm very sorry to hear that you feel your son was "butchered". There is no doubt that some issues need to be ironed out before proceeding with presumed consent, but I think if you were personally facing the very real prospect of a premature death if you didnt receive a transplant then PC would seem a much better alternative.

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