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Q: What Do You Think About Donating Blood? Organs? Stemcells?
asked by: sadie1 on November 1st, 2007
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I am just curious in different opinions about donating. Why is donating blood any different than donating organs or stemcells? If you had surgery and needed blood would you take it or not? If you needed a liver, kidney, or a heart and one was donated would you take it to survive? If they throw embryos away, why wouldn't it be ok to use them for research and learn something from them instead of them having no meaning at all? I ask these questions, because I read some of the stemcell questions. If a person is against stemcell research, does that mean that they would die rather than take blood or an organ from someone that no longer has use for it? I would donate my blood if needed. What is so wrong with helping someone in need if you can?
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Verizon-y
replied on November 1st, 2007
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Nothing. Smile
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diamond splinter
replied on November 8th, 2007
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Stem cell and organ donation are a great resource to the medical proffesion just as long as they are donated and not retained i cannot see how anyone would refuse to give life/a better quality of life to another human the problems only occur when the cells and organs are retained without permission ie the organ retention scandal in liverpool and manchester.
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Marianne0558
replied on November 8th, 2007
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Nothing is wrong with donating at all! I would definitely take a donation if I needed one, and I also donate often.
I donate blood and plasma.
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Tylanas
replied on November 8th, 2007
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If I could, I would donate blood. Unfortunately I lived in Germany about 12 years ago, right during the time when Mad Cow was breaking out. Because of this, I may have prions in my blood. Obviously, they're not giving ME Mad Cow disease, but that's because I'm either resistant or (most likely) just don't have any. Unfortunately there is no way to test for prions in the blood of living creatures. The only way to tell is to dissect a dead creature and look at its brain. Then, if it has died of mad cow disease, then you can say it had prions in its blood.

So my body is pretty much off the market until I die. Even then, I won't die of mad-cow disease but my organs could STILL have prions in them so I think my flesh is basically considered poison, especially since it's undetectable. Which sucks.
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Verizon-y
replied on November 8th, 2007
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Yikes that sounds scary.
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Tylanas
replied on November 8th, 2007
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Meh, like I said, chances are I don't have any prions. It's just impossible to test for.
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Verizon-y
replied on November 23rd, 2007
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Cool. Thanks for the info.
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