I think organ transplants should only be given to someone under 40 years old ... and only then it will allow them a useful life contributing to society.

Depends on health and what organ

If I needed an organ transplant, I would ask for it. I want to see my grandchildren. My daughter and her husband are talking about having children.

The latter

I'd take it, if that were all that were wrong with me at that point and i wasnt 75+ years old

Well, good question. I have been in need of a new pancreas all my life. This was not possible for many, many years, so I went to insulin injection route. Now it has been possible but not done here in the US. Should I give up on the insulin, or move to Japan and hope for th best? I continue to plug on, fifty years now. Not sure how I would handle needing a liver or a kidney. Probably let it go, take lots of morphine and slip into blissful death.

There are medical ethicists to decide that. If they decide I need it I'll take it.

At this stage of my life , and the condition of my body , that is no longer an option . There are never enough organs to go around , and those that are available , are usually reserved for much younger people .

I think I would have to consider my age at the time, current health, the quality of life I could expect after the transplant, and probably a lot of other factors, including whether or not I could pay for it.

The easier decision was whether to be an organ donor: I am. Yet another area religion rears it's head in that some Catholics used to believe they needed to be buried with all their body parts, so they were not donors.

I think when it comes to something this big and this emotional, it's really hard to know your true feelings until you're actually there. We're often far more philosophical about death until our expiration date comes up... then suddenly things change.

I am 82 years old, and I will not seek or accept any organ transplant under any circumstances. I have lived a full life and see no need to continue an increasingly marginal life at huge cost.

At my age? I would take what I could get. Probably will feel differently at some point in the future.

That is a suicidal question....the transplant committee makes ethical decions based upon projected medical success NOT PAST LIFE EVALUATION....if you are asked such a question a probe is evaluating your will to live NOT DESIRE TO DIE

Knowing all the possible post operative complications, and the lifetime of anti-rejection meds, I'd pass. It still wouldn't fix what was already broken, and leave me at a baseline worse than where I started.