Yes, better than taking it from someone else.
69% (25 votes)
Yes, but only if I couldn't get another organ.
14% (5 votes)
Depends on why I need the organ.
14% (5 votes)
No, I only want someone else's organ.
0% (0 votes)
No, I wouldn't accept any organ.
3% (1 vote)
Total votes: 36
I said yes, but not because it's "better" than taking it from someone else--more because, that way, I'm guaranteed an organ without the wait, without keeping someone else from receiving an organ, with a smaller chance of rejection, etc. There are a lot of reasons why I would take the option.
And if I needed an organ because something was wrong with mine that wouldn't go away just by regrowing my own cells (because that's where the poblem was in the first place) I wouldn't mind receiving an organ grown from someone else's cells either.
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It would still be a wait... organs can't grow overnight.
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I meant more along the lines of with no wait list. I know it would still be a bit of a wait.
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It's simpler than knowing someone had to die in order for you to get it. As much as I want someone to have my organs or for them to serve some sort of purpose, I don't think I could handle having someone else's organ.
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The first one failed in a year and a half with no real reason. Apparently within a month, the nephrons began expanding to the point that the kidney basically became ... porous? After over a month in the hospital post-op with my second cadaver kidney, it still didn't work and rejected.
I never felt bad about it. Had I not taken the kidneys, it isn't like they would've lived. I spoke to a family that donated and they felt it kept them alive, as well as saving and improving lives.
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I checked "it depends." If my life was in immediate danger, I'd accept a synthetically grown organ, especially since there's typically a long wait to get an organ off the organ donor list. But otherwise, I'm fine with someone else's organ. They come from dead people, and hey, they don't need them anymore. They're fully functional and natural. I'm an organ donor, I'd be an organ receiver too if necessary.
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I probably wouldn't accept an organ. I don't not believe in organ transplants (I'm a donor)... I just think that when it's my time, it's my time.
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I was 14 when I was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure. I didn't really have time to think about it. I do believe very much that when it is someone's time, it just IS.
I have flatlined a few times, and they called my family in because I wasn't expected to make it through the night a couple of times. I did though. I don't believe that even technology can fight it if it is truly your time.
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I definitely would be fine with one from a lab grown from my own cells. At least then there's less chance of the organ not being accepted by the body, because technically it belongs there anyway. Also, no living or dead person has to get cut up because of me.
I have to wonder though how long it would take the organ to grow. By the time it's finished, would it be too late for me? Also, how many successful runs had the lab had with this operation? I'd like to know that before I take the plunge.
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Right now I'm pretty sure this is entirely theoretical. I haven't heard anything about working grown organs yet.
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I'll take whatever I can get. Anything that needs to be done to save my life would most likely be done, I don't think my family would ever forgive me if I didn't let them try everything they could.
That's what some people are making this into. I don't see the problem with using cells to save someone's life, as long as they cells are freely given. I don't see why we should have the technology to help someone and not use it because someone else is squeamish. People lose a lot of their scruples when its there life on the line. Mine isn't but someday it might be. Give me the organ.
I've spent over 10 years of my life on a kidney transplant waiting list (cumulative). It sucks. I was in and out of the hospital almost monthly. Dialysis wore on me after a few years. I was lucky though. At least with kidney failure, you have a back up for a while.
When someone is at that point, you do whatever you have to, unless you don't believe in it or you give up on yourself. ( I met a guy that refused to quit drinking to get on the liver transplant list.)
There are currently almost 99,000 people on wait lists across the US. In 2008, as of 05/23, there have been 4,471 transplants, and 2,287 donors. If there is any technology that can relieve these people, it will be used.
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I 'd go with an organ grown from my own cells because of the almost zero percent likelihood that it will be rejected by my body. When receiving someone else's organ, they have to put you on meds that basically wipe out your immune system so your body can't fight back and reject the donor's organ. Presumably, if you were your own donor, they wouldn't have to do that.
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If I had some genetic disorder that caused me to need another organ I would want someone else's, otherwise the new organ grown from my cells would have the genetic problem. But there are so few organ donors that I would definitely grow an organ from my own cells.