# Have you signed your organ donor card? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451 "2006-01-24T21:52:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/21 "2006-01-25T12:25:40Z")
Used to have one. **Coffeespouse** got very upset because she doesn’t want anyone else to have my beautiful eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/22 "2006-01-25T12:45:14Z")
> [@coffeecat](#): > > Used to have one. **Coffeespouse** got very upset because she doesn’t want anyone else to have my beautiful eyes. I believe you or your family can pick and choose what organs/tissues you wish to donate. You could still donate a kidney for example and not your cornea’s. Unless your SO is in love with your kidneys too. Madd Maxx (Organ Donor) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/23 "2006-01-25T13:10:03Z")
Also, just an FYI, in some states, the organ donation is contigent on Brain Death. If you have a 50 year old guy who has a massive heart attack and drops dead and his organs are still good and whatnot, only specific things may be harvested from him. (eyes, skin, heart valves and something else I’m forgetting.) If you have a brain dead harvesting off of a head injury case, usually it’s a harvest festival palooza. At least in Michigan, that’s the rule ( or it was just a few years ago.) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/24 "2006-01-25T14:39:48Z")
Yup, I’m a donor, and my sister (my main Next Of Kin) and I have discussed what I want done in various scenarios, though I’ve never done the living will thing. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/25 "2006-01-25T15:13:03Z")
After toying with the idea for some time, I decided to becoma donor after reading the book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers about a year ago. But because I’m chronically lazy I haven’t gotten around to getting the card yet. I have told **Mrs. Cliffy** my wishes. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/26 "2006-01-25T15:22:47Z")
Yep. And it really seems to be a comfort to the folks who survive, gauging from the funerals of donors that I’ve been to. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/27 "2006-01-25T15:39:25Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Yep. And it really seems to be a comfort to the folks who survive, gauging from the funerals of donors that I’ve been to. It’s true. My mother died of cancer, and in the end there was practically nothing left of her. But we were still able to donate her eyes, and it gave us some happiness to know that she could still help someone. ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/28 "2006-01-25T18:10:34Z")
I carry my old MA card in the wallet, and the new NH license has a nice symbol imprinted on it. Mrs. Butler & the parents all know that I have no need for any of the internal bits, and they should give them out if they are needed or useful. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/29 "2006-01-25T18:33:05Z")
I signed such a card 20 years ago. My PA driver’s license now declare me to be an organ donor. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/30 "2006-01-25T19:48:09Z")
I don’t believe we have physical organ donor cards here anymore: When you apply for or renew your provincial health card, you indicate your preference and it is stored electronically. Of course, I also discussed this with family members so they are aware of my wish to donate. Even if just having my preference to donate was enough to proceed (and of course, it is not), who is to say I would be carrying my medicare card and someone would check, or that I would be in my own province? ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/31 "2006-01-25T20:20:38Z")
Thanks for the info **OtakuLoki**. I may want to look into that. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/32 "2006-01-25T21:03:37Z")
I signed my first donor’s card in 1970, when I helped with the care of the first person in Kansas to receive a cadver kidney. I’ve had one ever since. It used to even have my HLa (Human Leucocyte antigens) typing, but they changed the way HLa is typed a few years later, and I never got it up dated. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/33 "2006-01-25T23:59:07Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > The idea feels vaguely creepy to me, but I do intend to register as soon as I get my driver’s license. I figure it might weird me out now but by the time I actually die I’ll be too dead to care. Good for you. Maybe if we talk about this more, people will be less creeped out by it and more accepting of the idea of organ donation. Course, I also think that organ donation should be the norm, and people who feel strongly about not donating should opt out, but that day is far off. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/34 "2006-01-26T01:38:28Z")
I’ve signed the back of my medicare card. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451/35 "2006-01-26T01:50:42Z")
I have the little pink sticker on my driver’s license. After reading **gotpasswords** ’ post, I took it out to make sure it’s still there. Yup, I’m good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-signed-your-organ-donor-card/341451.md?page=1)