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RE: Organ transplant debate.
May 9, 2014 at 9:25 am
I had a friend that was a organ donor and died in a car crash a few years ago. ended saving like 17 people. I'm a donor myself
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RE: Organ transplant debate.
May 9, 2014 at 11:42 am
I am absolutely a donor. And I consider it a post-mortem blessing to my family that I have a living will explicitly requiring my body to be donated to the NIH. No casket, no burial plot or mausoleum, I'm going cheap. I personally would hope that by the time I die we can have a whole industry using our unusable parts for energy production.
But sometimes I wonder when some people say things like "dying with the organs god gave me," if they're using an easy scapegoat for just not having a protracted battle with a terrible illness, and letting go before life gets unbearable, and others are making decisions for you because you can't. Not to mention the cost of those protracted battles.
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RE: Organ transplant debate.
May 10, 2014 at 5:41 am
I wonder if she thanks god for giving her the faulty gene that causes CF?
The choice of whether to accept a transplant must be left to the patient, apart from misguided religious views, they may not want a longer life if that life is going to be full of pain and suffering.
From my point of view when I die I want my body to be used anyway the doctors think useful, transplants, organ donation whatever, it seems a shame to feed good organs to the worms. Any bits left over after this can be used as dog food, I won't be using them so why not? (I used to be a blood donor but had to stop for medical reasons)
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