organ donation

ha ha then we shall butt heads again.

Life would be boring if we all agreed on everything In an ideal world, I would love to be dating a vegan though!

Well I'm only 15 and I talk about organ donation sometimes with my parents. I'm going to; you can save someone's life. Who gives a damn if they eat meat or not? It's still a life
The percentage of blood donation is extremely low, are you not going to donate some blood every few months just because it's going to a meat eater? I don't know, but once I die everything that can be donated of mine will be.

I understand your mentality, although I have to ask: Would you save Hitler? Even if there wa sa 98% chance he would continue the genocide he started? After all, you are just saving a life..

I do see that on the face of it, yes, you are saving a life. But as soon as you just look deeper then that, you actually aren't, you're actually aiding someone CAUSE harm. It's like becoming a vegetarian, because on the face of it, you aren't causing harm. But when you look a little deeper into the dairy and egg industries, you're still causing a great amount of harm.

I'm sorry if you were offended Hedwig ~ That certainly wasn't my intention.  I often have a curt manner and apologise if you felt I was rude.

I have no right to judge others' choices, and hope I am given the same courtesy in return.

I have been a vegan for more than 30 years and I used to be a regular blood donor, giving blood every 2-3 months. After running an animal shelter for a number of years and seeing the cruelty people inflict on animals on that level and reflecting on the reasons I became a vegan and have been a fruitarian for nearly three years now, I have decided that I just could not donate my blood any longer to those who are not vegan, and I've taken organ donor off my driver's license. I would donate in a heartbeat to a vegan though. I don't think eating or exploiting animals is any different than eating or exploiting people and I just couldn't think that my life spent working toward helping animals would benefit somebody who was the opposite of that.

Unfortunately you don't have the choice who your organ goes to. It either does or doesn't. And anyway - your family can over turn any decision you've made.

I still stand by everything I said on this thread. And I'm trying really hard not to be enraged by some opinions expressed here. How could you stop donating blood based on the idea that most of it will go to non-vegans? You have no idea who that blood is going to. It could be a child who has been in a serious accident or is very sick. It could be a person who later in their life will have a serious revelation and become an animal activist. It could be a omnivore. I just... I can't wrap my head around it.

Bit late... But they already do! My beasties grandma has part of a pig heart in her after a heart attack!!!!!!

Im going to be a donar.....to be sure i dont bloody wake up in the grave!!

lol.

no seriously i will donate because i dont need them....and can i ask you all one question...were you born vegan?!  no....in most cases we went vegan in our teens or our 20s or 30s...some middle age!

well you could be saving the life of someone who will go veg......i dont think we should be PICKY.

I went veg at 17.......if i had needed an organ donation for medical reasons before this and there wasnt any for me....i would be dead and couldnt help animals like i try to now!