06-02-2019, 05:33 PM
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Re: Medical Research.
Originally Posted by AnnieS
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I wonder what medical research means. Are these the bodies that medical students practice on?I knew someone who carried out research in an organ donation lab. He said he would never donate his organs.
Exactly, Annie.
People kindly donate their bodies 'assuming' they are used for good causes, like cancer research etc , but most people haven't a clue what they are participating in.
It might be a practice they strongly disagree with if they had known.
I read many years ago about goats having udders grafted on to the side of their necks to see if the udder would still produce milk! Why?
Pigs livers are transplanted into humans. Do the animals willingly donate their organs? How would you feel if it were the other way round, and our liver was whipped out and sewn into a pig for an experiment?
I firmly believe many what I would call 'macabre' practices go on in laboratories that the puiblic know nothing about.
I think we should have to be told what research and organs are needed, and then asked to perhaps tick a box to say which research we would like to donate to.
Give people more information and then we can make an informed decision whether we wish to contribute or not.
As it is now, people just contribute knowing absolutely nothing. They just assume it is for a worthy cause.
06-02-2019, 05:36 PM
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Re: Medical Research.
Originally Posted by Barry
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If that was the deceased's wishes then that should be all that matters.
Yes, I do agree their wishes should be honoured Barry, but as I have just said, I think we should be able to choose which research we would like to assist with.
There could be horrific experiments going on, which I would not want any part of had I known.
06-02-2019, 05:38 PM
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Re: Medical Research.
Originally Posted by Mups
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Yes, I do agree their wishes should be honoured Barry, but as I have just said, I think we should be able to choose which research we would like to assist with.There could be horrific experiments going on, which I would not want any part of had I known.
06-02-2019, 05:52 PM
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Re: Medical Research.
Originally Posted by Bratti
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But if they are dead already how do you broach this topic without horrifying the relatives or person in charge ?
I don't think I qluite understand your question Bratti?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if someone has died and haven't given their permission to be used for experiments, then they must be left alone.
If they already had given their permission before death, then that should be honoured.
All I meant was I would like to be able to choose a cause I believed in to donate to.
06-02-2019, 05:55 PM
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Re: Medical Research.
Originally Posted by Mups
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Exactly, Annie.People kindly donate their bodies 'assuming' they are used for good causes, like cancer research etc , but most people haven't a clue what they are participating in.
It might be a practice they strongly disagree with if they had known.
I read many years ago about goats having udders grafted on to the side of their necks to see if the udder would still produce milk! Why?
Pigs livers are transplanted into humans. Do the animals willingly donate their organs? How would you feel if it were the other way round, and our liver was whipped out and sewn into a pig for an experiment?
I firmly believe many what I would call 'macabre' practices go on in laboratories that the puiblic know nothing about.
I think we should have to be told what research and organs are needed, and then asked to perhaps tick a box to say which research we would like to donate to.
Give people more information and then we can make an informed decision whether we wish to contribute or not.
As it is now, people just contribute knowing absolutely nothing. They just assume it is for a worthy cause.
He said he didn't think the organs were treated with respect.
I suppose organs that are not used end up binned. There are a lot of young people working in junior lab positions and my impression was that they just treated organs etc as something to play with when they were not being used.
I agree with you that people should have some understanding of what will happen with their body parts.
06-02-2019, 06:01 PM
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Re: Medical Research.
Originally Posted by Mups
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I don't think I qluite understand your question Bratti?Correct me if I'm wrong, but if someone has died and haven't given their permission to be used for experiments, then they must be left alone.
If they already had given their permission before death, then that should be honoured.
All I meant was I would like to be able to choose a cause I believed in to donate to.
I think discussing all this at the time of death probably isn’t a good idea. I think I was confused also. Lol
06-02-2019, 06:18 PM
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Re: Medical Research.
If any of my family had their bodies donated to medical science I wouldn't want to know what was going to happen to them, too much information and being that I am not a medical person would I understand, and would it be too much of a shock not being used to hearing about details of body dismembering, by people who do it every day....
06-02-2019, 06:18 PM
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Re: Medical Research.
Originally Posted by Bratti
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In my opinion it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks. If those were his wishes then get those papers signed. I think it’s the most generous thing a person can do;Donate their body to medical research so others can benefit from their death.
06-02-2019, 06:39 PM
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Re: Medical Research.
Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
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He would have had to sign the papers himself - they cannot be be retrospectively signed after death - unless, of course, the rules have changed since I did it.
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