There’s a big stink in Chicago’s newspapers today re: line jumping organ recipients. It wouldn’t be necessary to police it so closely if more people would give. There’d be enough parts to go around.
If my husband dies before his mother, the shit is going to hit the fan. I’m going to have him cremated and donated and his mother is against it for irrational reasons. I’ve actually thought in great detail how to do a fake burial so she doesn’t flip out.
Can I place dibs on your daughter then 
I also believe strongly in donation of organs at death, I won’t need them anymore, and I doubt my heirs will want them. What’s left can feed the worms.
I had a teacher once who used to say she didn’t want any fanfare when she died. She would always conclude her sermons about death by saying, “Just throw me in a pine box out in my back yard so I can feed the worms and come up daisies.”
No, the church already has a decent one, but I did donate money towards the new piano.
When I went and had my license renewed, I had to fill out the organ donation form. For the first time, I realized there was a spot for exceptions if you don’t want certain parts given away. I was going to say don’t screw with my eyes, but my mom (I know she’s a psychic!) told me that they’d still be brown. Oh. Ok then. I’m in.
As for cremation… I used to want to be cremated and tossed in the Pacific Ocean. Lately the idea of cremation has creeped me out. I think I know why. In Stephen King’s latest collection of short stories (‘Everything’s Eventual’), there’s this story about a guy who gets bitten by a snake and is still alive in the autopsy room (‘Autopsy Room Four’). I’m sure I imagine the pain of having my living body burning, even though the rational side of me knows I’d be dead and wouldn’t feel a thing. OTOH, I’m also oogied out by the thought of maggots and other insects having a feast of my body after I’ve passed on.
Take anything that’s useful, and burn what’s left.
No. I don’t want to end up being another ‘casualty’ of the organ-donation system, like this person-
http://www.geocities.com/organtransplanting/SalernoHeartArticle.html
“Marino tells the story of the Toledo man who shot a woman in the head. “The hospital declared her brain-dead. Surgeons did the harvest. But just before they made the decision to cut, a neurosurgeon had examined the woman. When he found out later about the harvest, he was furious. He says, “This woman might have been blind in one eye or had other problems, but I think we could have salvaged her!” So when the man is charged with murder, the defense had the neurosurgeon and other experts testify that what actually caused the woman’s death was not the gunshot but the harvest. Now they got the guy on felonious assault, but they didn’t get him for murder.””
Surreal that is just too creepy for me.
I got the wee blue card to make it all official. I’m sure its not too hard to find the application form, health centre or Chemists perhaps.
I’m donating because I came across an NHS stand in a shopping centre handing out the application forms. Donating organs and blood only ever flits across my mind occasionally, I keep meaning to go to the blood letting sessions at uni’ but at least I can keep the card in my wallet. If you’re in the UK when I croak its all up for grabs folks, can’t see why I should keep what I don’t need.
Are you implying that my precious baby is leftovers?!? :eek:
I’m donating my liver to Molson of Canada, one six-pack at a time.
I have signed the donor forms so that my organs can be donated after death.
I am also on the National Marrow Donor Program as a potential donor for someone who might need a bone marrow transplant.
www.marrow.org
now that I got my joke out of the way, let me add my $0.02. Signing the card is nice but what you need to do is tell the relative that would make the decision for you what you want. My parents know that I want to donate organs. They also know that I DO NOT want to be buried. Cremate me! The idea of wasting space for a memorial for me gives me the heebie jeebies, really.
I also tell them to just flush me down the toilet. I want to go out like a goldfish.
donating blood, organs, anything i no longer need seems the best plan…let somebody else have a chance. cremation sounds right also…why take up space when i’m dead?
Okay, I know I responded to this already but I was in a hurry cause the work internet filter was about to kick in.
Surreal’s story illustrates the problem very well. I think it’s the same one I saw in Playboy. You may be donating your organs BEFORE you die. In fact, the organ donation might actually be what kills you! And that really scares me. So…
AS LONG AS MY ORGANS REALLY AREN’T BEING USED!!! as long as I am absolutley truly 100% DOA (really dead on arrival) and I do not die while the doctor is “trying” to save me, I’m more than willing to donate any part of my body, and as long as I don’t end up as an experiment or I end up being cut up by some medical student they are welcome to my organs. But how do you enforce this? How can you (or your family) know that you aren’t going to be victimized like the people in the article? You don’t. And you know what? The real answer is to increase the number of organs donated so they don’t have to resort to murder to get organs. So everybody donate your organs!
They can have anything that looks useful. I’ve instructed my sister (she’s my next-of-kin) that they should go ahead and pull the plug rather than keeping me on never-ending life support, grab what they want, and burn the rest. My ashes should go in whatever ocean is most convenient.
Eh, they can take whatever they need. I have told my husband as much. I think I want to be cremated, too, but I haven’t thought that far ahead. Wonder if they can use my “leftovers” for compost … probably not, I don’t think diet soda is organic.
But anyway - take my organs. PLEASE.
I have signed an organ donor card. after I’m gone, I won’t need them.
I am an organ donor and it says so on my driver’s license. Too, my family know this, which is also important (imagine I were assaulted and my license disappeared?). I do not know of any use I will have for my liver, kidneys, heart etc. after I am dead, so whoever can use them is more than welcome to them.
i beleive that anyone who isnt an organ donor should not have the privelige of receiving donated organs should they need them. Or, similarly, anyone who has received donated organs should automatically be necessitated to be an organ donor. what goes around should come around.
Im not an organ donor only because i am not old enough. but i would like for my parents to donate my organs should i die before becoming old enough.