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Asked by ciaragrimesxox to Amy, Sarah, Will on 21 Jun 2012.
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Will Reynolds answered on 21 Jun 2012:
Hi Ciaragrimesxox. Organ donation is a very personal thing. By donating your organs you are giving someone else a chance to live a better life and in my opinion this is a very worthwhile thing and I am intending to donate my organs when I die. But it can be hard to think of the organs of someone you love to be inside another person, especially if they die suddenly and your not prepared for it. The alternative is to develop artificial organs to replace failed ones, but as yet this is not possible, although there is a lot of research going into it. Hope this helps!
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Sarah Martin answered on 22 Jun 2012:
Hi ciaragrimesxox,
A good friend of mine will need a liver transplant soon, and that makes this a really important question for me!
I’ve signed up here
http://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/ukt/default.asp
to donate my organs if doctors think they can use them, and this site has lots more information about it. For me, the decision is “who needs the organs most?” – and I don’t think I’ll need them when I’m dead, even if I’d rather not think about that now. I don’t like the idea of being cut up, but then I think about how much work has gone into all the detail of making my organs work, and think it would be a waste if they weren’t used to help someone else survive.
However big improvements are being made using stem cells from patients to grow organs in petri dishes in labs! They can make tiny kidneys and livers now, and I hope soon they’ll be able to grow them bigger and use them in patients.
Are you considering donating your organs?
🙂 Sarah
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ciaragrimesxox commented on :
thank youuuuuuu