This is incorrect. If you have Type I diabetes, a pancreas transplant will cure you. The major risk is organ rejection, but the organ would last way longer than a year or so.
Even if the pancreas does eventually get destroyed by the person, it's still allowing a diabetic to live on for a year in peace, without the fear of death or further crippling injuries as a result of diabetes.
If someone dies, their pancreas is just going to die too.
It can't be saved up for years until someone needs it.
If it can help someone else, even for a short amount of time, why not give it away? It's more useful to them than it will be to you ever again.
And it's a bit of an odd statement to say "Don't donate that organ, because it will go into someone sick who'll break it".
That's sort of the entire point of Organ Donation.
The only thing I would have worry over, is if my Liver could end up being transplanted into the body of an alcoholic.
While I understand that he's in need of it too, it just seems like he could potentially ruin it by his own actions.
I know that in most transplant lists at hospitals they insist that the person recieving doesn't drink or smoke or take drugs for a good set of time before the operation, to ensure that they aren't going to cause damage immediately, and also as a sign of good faith that they won't continue after the operation and waste the organ. And if they are found to be drinking or whatnot, then they're normally thrown right down to the bottom of the transplant list.
But there's nothing stopping them from starting all over again once the organ is inside them.
That's my only fear, that the Organ could go to someone who will definitely waste it by their own decisions, when it could go to someone who is greatly in need of one for unfortunate events, like viral infections or genetic diseases.
The only thing I wouldn't like donating is the eyes. I don't know why it just seems weird. I mean I'll be dead so it won't matter but dead people eyes are creepy.
I can understand this, but as far as I'm aware, most transplants to do with the eyes generally consist of transplanting the cornea.
The cornea is a transparent part of the eye, which is crucial to sight.
If it was transplanted, it could give somone back their sight. And it won't look like your eye. They won't have the colour of your iris or anything like that.
They're also apparantely rather easy to donate too.
They don't have blood vessels, so there is very little chance of rejection by the recipient.
And most people who need them will have developed things like Cataracts, which aren't really genetic or immunological, so they won't really ruin the cornea.
