[Everyneurotic]

yeah, i'm not afraid of other types of needles either.

it's, yeah, it's something that gets stuck in your arm (in your VEIN for fuck's sake!) and it can introduce anything and draw anything out of it. also, if the person draws air into it and introduces it to your vein, you die.

i had to get tetanus shots a few years ago (for stepping into a nail barefoot in acapulco) and i was shaking, the only people i trust with shots are experienced doctors. and they did hurt! actually, the last one lumped.

[PAULYBEE2656]

if i ever need a needle in doctors or dentists i always warn em that ill either shout, scream, puke, punch or kick em... they laugh and then just jab it in the sneaky bastards......

oh god, theres that nausea again...

[Everyneurotic]

i don't get violent, i try to convince myself when i need to take a shot, and then cringe until it's over.

[EMMAh]

I don't mind getting shots and stuff like that, it's getting blood tests that gets me all uurrggh.
It just really grosses me out for some reason. Seeing my blood in a little vile.

[Cantankerous]

needles don't bother me. i have a pretty high threshold for pain but i don't know, they just don't hurt at all.

[copper]

i might donate blood some day, if i can be bothered. thats as far as i'd go.

[PAULYBEE2656]

i really have to stop reading this thread right now........

my fear must be pretty profound cuz yet again i feel nauseuos

[copper]

^blood.

[Cantankerous]

i'm never going to work again
if i need money i will sell plasma (related to not being afraid of needles)

[Everyneurotic]

i've been thinking of donating blood for money, i'll find out if the pay is worth it.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

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ra-di-oy: Ai-ti-yo-py-a: al-le? [Is that Radio Ethiopia?]

beyetenyow moged lai nesh? [lit. Frequency-Station upon it-is-miss?]
yemetweju man nesh? [lit. Of-You-Like singer who it-is-miss?]

yemeweddo zefany Alemayehu Eshete [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI4r28e8bEo#] no. [lit. of-I-Like Singer Alemayehu Eshete it-is.]

[charles eugene]

I just imagine the needle actually piercing through skin and into a little vein. it just makes me get a wierd face

[Cantankerous]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

ra-di-oy: Ai-ti-yo-py-a: al-le? [Is that Radio Ethiopia?]

beyetenyow moged lai nesh? [lit. Frequency-Station upon it-is-miss?]
yemetweju man nesh? [lit. Of-You-Like singer who it-is-miss?]

yemeweddo zefany Alemayehu Eshete [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI4r28e8bEo#] no. [lit. of-I-Like Singer Alemayehu Eshete it-is.]

yes it is radio ethiopia

but i drew it off the back of the record, i don't speak amharic.

[terminal pharmacy]

Originally Posted by charles eugene

I just imagine the needle actually piercing through skin and into a little vein. it just makes me get a wierd face

see giving your organs when you are dead is the easy bit... after a transplant you have blood taken daily for two months, plus organ biopsies. The organ biopsy is done under a local anaesthetic just so the can cut youa bit then a gun not unlike an ear piercing gun is pushed in side you and shot into the organ which is very painful. not to mention all the other things that come with kidney transplants that are far far more archaic.....

[Cantankerous]

yeah i rly don't think anyone would want my internals. so i don't even have to worry about being an organ donor probably. i'm a chainsmoker and have been since the age of 14 (started smoking initially at 12-13 but not heavily as i do now), taken almost every drug under the sun and drank to excess for about the last 4 years straight, caught hepatitis B, had like a million urinary tract infections...
hence liver, lungs, kidneys, bladder, etc (the organs everyone NEEDS) probably all no good.

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

it's not rational, i can't help feeling this way, and as long as i choose to do the right thing & donate i don't see why my instictive aversion to thinking about my body parts being removed matters to you.
and i don't like the idea of my body being cut up by a pathologist, mortician, or coroner, nor being cremated.
anyway, i'm not having an open casket so as far as i know their will be no embalming. unless i choose to be mummified.

there is always embalming, whether you ahve an open casket or not. your insides are cut out and diosposed of and stuffed full of rags or paper, to make you look normal., even if there is no open casket.

make no bones about it, you WILL be mutilated after you die, even if I have to go to the morgue myself and start to hack away.

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

yeah, i'm not afraid of other types of needles either.

it's, yeah, it's something that gets stuck in your arm (in your VEIN for fuck's sake!) and it can introduce anything and draw anything out of it. also, if the person draws air into it and introduces it to your vein, you die.

i had to get tetanus shots a few years ago (for stepping into a nail barefoot in acapulco) and i was shaking, the only people i trust with shots are experienced doctors. and they did hurt! actually, the last one lumped.

tetanus shots ALWAYS lump. they are subcutaneous

[MellySingsDoom]

1. Organ donation should be a personal choice, end of matter. Any idea that someone should effectively be forced NOT to donate is a tad sinister, I feel. Also, in the UK, there have been instances of organs being removed from a dead person without the consent of next of kin, leading to the inevitable pissed-off reaction. Y'know, sometimes the medical profession don't "know it all"...

2. The idea of effectively being shouted at on this forum for not wanting to donate smacks of emotional blackmail. Fine, disagree, that's cool, but don't attempt to make people feel guilty about their choice.

3. Whatever happens to my body after I die is all good, so as far as I'm concerned, if one of my organs can help anyone, then take 'em away, doctor. Besides, in my casket, I plan to have my face painted like Krusty The Clown (or maybe Emperor Palpatine from "Return Of The Jedi"), so looks ain't important post-mortem, baby.

[Rob Instigator]

sometimes gult is the only thing that will motivate people to do the right thing

[MellySingsDoom]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

sometimes gult is the only thing that will motivate people to do the right thing

If someone donates an organ out of guilt, as opposed to being motivated by a genuine desire to help, then they've been press-ganged into "doing the right thing". If there's one thing guaranteed to make me NOT donate, it's other people using emotive techniques in a forceful manner on me, a tactic that'll bring out a "fuck you" reaction pretty much straight away.

I would have thought that a professional calmly explaining the benefits of a donation would be a far better way of convincing someone's who unsure/against, as opposed to the "If you don't donate, then you're no better than a paedophile (and HOW DARE YOU don't donate to my loved one)" method...