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Post by cloud » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:27 pm

Could somebody please tell me about how tissue/organ/blood donation works in Finland?

Here in England I am on the register, so if I die they can take whatever they like and anything else I allow while I'm alive. And due to a recent change in the law, relatives can no longer block organ harvesting after death... what says the Finnish law? :lol:

(sorry, not the most cheerful of topics, but important to me)


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Post by Hank W. » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:16 pm

UK are considered tainted with mad cow. No harvesting - atleast blood donations are not accepted.
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Post by OliBlom » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:17 pm

I am British, tried to give blood in Finland, but they didn't want it as I lived in the UK during the time of "Mad Cow" disease!
I figure it will be the same for tissue and organ donation as well - rather let the person die than have the chance of saving their life but at the same time infecting them with CJD!
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Post by cloud » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:18 pm

I am not mad! :lol: Harvesting refers to the removal of organs for transplantation... that's term the NHS here used... I just want to help people since I'm quite healthy... and I get called mad :oops:
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Post by OliBlom » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:21 pm

cloud wrote:I am not mad! :lol: Harvesting refers to the removal of organs for transplantation... that's term the NHS here used... I just want to help people since I'm quite healthy... and I get called mad :oops:
Yes but that is how the Finnish Blood Donation service sees it - go figure. You would have thought they can screen for CJD, but I am no doctor so I don't know.
I must say that I was stunned when they declined me giving blood!
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Post by cloud » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:22 pm

Hmm... that's rather !"#¤%... :roll: I shall give away my kidney now then :lol: thanks all *bows*
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Post by cloud » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:24 pm

OliBlom wrote:
cloud wrote:I am not mad! :lol: Harvesting refers to the removal of organs for transplantation... that's term the NHS here used... I just want to help people since I'm quite healthy... and I get called mad :oops:
Yes but that is how the Finnish Blood Donation service sees it - go figure. You would have thought they can screen for CJD, but I am no doctor so I don't know.
I must say that I was stunned when they declined me giving blood!
*comforts thee* well, one would think so... after all, if they can screen for AIDS :roll: Oh well. I have two years to get rid of as much as I can
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Post by EP » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:36 pm

Yes but that is how the Finnish Blood Donation service sees it - go figure.
It is not just Finland, it is all of Europe outside UK.

But I would be happy to have your liver :twisted: Maybe we could do an exhange privately in Russia.
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Post by cloud » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:45 pm

I am afraid that due to the Russian blood in me the liver is the one organ that's already quite dead :lol: You may have anything else though
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Post by EP » Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:47 pm

OK, I´ll settle for lungs.
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Post by cloud » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:41 pm

Good choice - nice and healthy :wink:
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Post by agn71 » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:16 pm

Here you go: http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2001/20010101 in Finnish of course and http://www.lahjaelamalle.net/.

In brief law assumes that dead person tissues and organs can be used after his/her death unless he has objected it or close relatives and friends will object it.

If you had make written consent earlier not even your relatives can prevent donation.
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Post by cloud » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:23 pm

Good good. I'd be a very peeved ghost if my relatives decided they just wouldn't like me cut up :)
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Post by kmboll » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:02 pm

Apparently all of Europe is dangerous, because when I used to give blood in the US they asked if you've lived anywhere in Europe for more than 2 years (or something like that). Must have mad reindeer here or somthing.
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Post by cloud » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:29 pm

kmboll wrote:Apparently all of Europe is dangerous, because when I used to give blood in the US they asked if you've lived anywhere in Europe for more than 2 years (or something like that). Must have mad reindeer here or somthing.
All of Europe is dangerous? :lol: pfft! And America is shining example of socially responsible behaviour? :P
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