Doug,
Jim Shanteau
had a graduate student at K-State while I was there who did research on organ
donation.� I can’t remember exactly what she did though.
Nina
Nina L.
Tarner, Ph.D.
Department of
Psychology
Gettysburg
College
Box 407
Gettysburg,
PA. 17325
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I
saw a poster at MPA about 4 years ago (2000 - I think) on the topic of organ
donation which revealed some very interested cross-cultural and religious issues.
My memory is that some cultures and religious groups hold to a
belief that organ donation mutilates the body and prevents it from being
retuned to the earth (dust to dust?) which can harm the immortal sole so they
will not take part in it. During
the conversation the researcher noted that this belief held true even though
clergy had informed them that this was not true.
I can't even find my MPA booklet to find the authors name - I'm
sorry.
Please keep encouraging
people to sign donor forms on their DL but in many states it is necessary to
inform your family of your intent, so they don't override your wishes.
My wife's best friend from high school is now in her 12th
year living with a donor heart and speaks publicly about her wedding (which was
postponed when her own heart failed), her funeral which was planned because the
doctors said she would not regain consciousness and if she did, she survive
until a donor could be found (a quite funny story is of her fianc�' calling the
funeral home to cancel and apologizing to the director for having to cancel and
then realizing he wasn't sorry for canceling at all).
Doug
Doug Peterson
Associate Professor of Psychology
The University of South Dakota
Vermillion SD 57069
(605) 677-5295
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Sent:
Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:44 PM
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Re: On Ways of Dying
At 06:47 PM 3/11/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Carol,
I can't imagine any plea more worth spreading on any listserve than that
everyone who can, should become organ donors.
Know that your daughter will surely be in the thoughts of all on TIPS who
read your story.
I second Beth's reply.
Not too long ago, and I forget the context in which it occurred, we were
talking informally about organ donation in one of my classes and after a short
discussion I proceeded to ask the class how many students had signed their
driver licenses for organ donation. I immediately recognized, after asking,
that students felt uncomfortable about the question. Realizing that no hands
were going to be raised (and none were raised) I proceeded to give a short pep
talk to encourage them to become organ donors. At one point, however, a couple
of the students expressed their concerns about becoming organ donors because
they suspected that in the event of an accident where they might be on the
verge of dying doctors might hasten their death if they knew they were organ
donors. I tried to assure them that such a scenario was unlikely, but I
doubt that I was able to convince anyone.
I don't really know anything about the psychology of organ donation, but my
sense is that there is significant public resistance to becoming organ
donors. What is the nature of this resistance? Is it perhaps
grounded on some on religious beliefs? Is it ignorance? Is it based
on fears such as those my students expressed?
After a brief search I found this paper which I hope to get at some point:
Skowronski, J. J. (1997). On the psychology of organ donation: Attitudinal and
situational factors related to the willingness to be an organ donor. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 19, 427-456.
But, there must be other literature out there on this topic.
Miguel
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