I am sure a lot of you have already done it, but being rather slow off the mark I have only just done this....
https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/ukt/RegistrationForm.do
It literally takes 2 minutes of your time, costs nothing and who knows, may be one of the most worth while things you ever do.
It is sad that as a percentage so few of us have actually "opted in".
Don't know if there is any chance of a sticky but personally I think why not make this one and see how many "Lifers" we can get signed up....
After all it is a far better use of your time than watching any of the dross football at the World Cup so far or hunting around on "Football Rumours" for made up stories which is what we have all been doing since the Swindon game!
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Been a card holder for ages, they can everything but my eyes, don't know why I did that just think its weird, am short sighted to so wouldn't be much use to anyone, my whole family are signed up as we knew someone who died after not getting a new heart.
Not sure why they want 2nd hand alcohol.........
Jolly, man up. It's only a little prick as the bishop said to the actress ; - )
www.anthonynolan.org.uk
It's an opt in system and I was proposing sitting in a corner with a banner above me and a few posters, not twisting peoples arms....this really is everyting wrong about the UK. A company has the opportunity of getting great publicity and turns it down in case they offend a tiny minority!
As I said before, if it Hurt I wouldn't keep doing it.........
My older sister was a Charlton fan. When we were kids, she would join me, my Dad and our older brother at The Valley and scream and shout as much as anyone.
Her favourite player was Colin Powell. I can still remember the squeals of delight when we met him after a match once, and he agreed to sign her arm with pink felt-tip pen. We rushed home and showed my Mum (who naturally ordered her to wash it off immediately). And she showed everyone at school on the Monday (having refused *ever* to wash that part of her arm ever again, ever. Ever).
She did many things, usually very well. She was an accomplished tennis player. And she was a singer and a dancer too, performing on stage in the West End. But I'll always remember her as a Charlton fan, standing with me and my Dad on the East terrace.
It's ironic that the lungs that helped her cheer Charlton on at The Valley for so many years were what let her down.
Through no fault of her own - an inherited condition - her lungs failed. Not through smoking (although that can't have helped) and not through anything she caused herself. She was just dealt a very, very unlucky hand of cards.
People like my sister can be saved - literally given a new life - if there are enough people on the donors' register. It's easy to sign up. Have a look at the original post on this thread. There really can be no excuse for not doing so. Please do it. You really can save someone's life.
So, maybe you want to know what happened? This week, my brother-in-law, my nephew and my sister celebrated the fourth anniversary of her double-lung transplant. Made possible by one kind donor, one brave donor's family, one brilliant medical team and one very brave, very determined, very, very happy big sister.
Please sign the register now.
(wipes away a tear)
There is almost no excuse in this country - most government forms you fill in has organ donation consent attached onto it.
Your organs are only taken if you die. You won't need them.
So glad that had a happy ending.
I signed he register ages ago. Everything can be taken except my eyes - i know it's nonsense but i just can't bring myself to authorise someone taking my corneas. You never know......
Have always had a card/been registered and give blood.
Plus I'd go to the extreme that if you're an adult and have no medical reason for not being a donor, then you should not be entitled to a transplant should you ever need one.