Twin.
I wish I could properly state the right of first sale he has, given it’s his DNA (well, he has mine, anyway).
Fun fact: organs donated between perfect twins have no short- or long-term rejection issues. So unlike a regular donation that prolongs life for a decade or two, if he can drug me and steal my kidneys in sleazy Mexican motel, it’s a permanent fix.
Hell, when I go, maybe he’ll take a spare kidney or pancreas or something, and just, you know, hook them up. Totally fine with me.
Imagine taking everything. Splice both kidneys in there and get that ultra pure blood. Climb Mount Everest with no supplemental oxygen using a second set of lungs. Four nuts.
If I had a twin, he’d have to watch his back
That went unexpectedly dark.
I thought it was sweet
Why not both?
Darksweet. New fiction genre just dropped
Actually, from experience, this is how I would describe the humour of queer people I know.
By default in our country. You have to unregister if you don’t want it.
Healthcare in the US is run for profit. From 2020 estimates, they charge $1.6 million for a heart transplant. $1.3 million to transplant a pair of lungs, $880 thousand for a liver, and $440 thousand for a kidney. This is what for profit hospitals charge patients while giving your next of kin nothing for the organs that made it possible.
They don’t pay you for your organs. They will still bill your estate for any care other than the organ removal despite your generosity.
I would happily be an organ donor in a country with a non-profit healthcare system. But because of how heathcare is run in this country, I would rather my organs be left to rot.
I agree it’s horrible, but also I don’t see it as a large enough reason to not donate. The person receiving the organs is probably not the cause of this. It’s like not working because your labor mostly goes to the elites. It’s not a great plan, even if it does feel good.
No.
The topic came up among a table of paramedics and other first responders I was drinking with one night. Went down to the dmv and had the mark taken off my id the Monday after.
I think we need some more context, other than it’s obviously not good like it’s promoted as
Would love to know anything more about that reaction.
I’ve been registered for a while now. I really don’t see a good reason not to, they only take 'em if I’m dead and what good are they to me then? Better going to someone in need.
Exactly this… Something that, at the moment of donation, literally means less than zero to you, could literally be a new lease in life for someone else
No.
- It’s opt-in in my country.
- I fear that medical personnel will give up on me way too easily and early if they know that I am a donor. Or that it’s even rooted in malicious intent.
Yes, it just feels like the right thing to do. Why let them go to waste if they can help someone else live.
I’m not. I’m aware of how selfish it is but something in my system of belief that I have (undefined? spiritual? no idea?) says that when I’m dead, I should be ALL dead.
Like, if there’s any kind of afterlife, will leaving a functioning part me behind hold up the transition? This even sounds fucked up to me because I’m 100% not religious at all.
I would just prefer all of me to be dead or all of me to be alive. Not fractions of both at the same time.
I’m the same way. The idea of some part of me living on and ending up who knows where freaks me out. (The same way I’d be, while extremely grateful, also weirded out having a transplant and knowing some dead person’s inside me). And I guess I’d like to know with certainty I will be safe and AT REST in some place. Yes I understand that all of this is irrational. But no matter how many times I read these debates, I can’t seem to let go and make it feel okay. Like you, I’m not religious.
So yeah I get that I sound cuckoo, the same way I think religions sound cuckoo. I guess this means I’m spiritual in a way, or just agnostic. Because if I was truly atheist, none of this would matter and I wouldn’t care.
Also I like to think it’s somehow related to me being a bit of a pack-rat (maybe not a hoarder, but definitely a pack-rat). I tend to ascribe feeling to objects and get attached and then can’t throw stuff out. Lol.
That being said – I’d be all for it if my organs were given to a loved one. 100% no qualms about it.
Don’t think of it as selfish. Your body is one of the few things in this world that is truly, indisputably yours. It’s entirely up to you if you’re comfortable with donation. If you’re not, there’s no criticism to be made.
no, I will when I’m 18 tho
like others have said, I’m dead, idgaf
Yes. And I volunteer plasma every 2 weeks. Up to 25 donations in a weeks time.
Organ donation is the last honorable / good thing you can do for the world after you’ve left. You’ll be forgotten soon after dying, so might as well make it worth something
For everyone who says they’re not comfortable with the idea of receiving, when you’re in a desperate situation thinking of mortality, I’m sure you’ll suddenly change your mind.
Even small things like when I was in Nepal, I’ve seen people turn desperate. When it comes down life or death, what choice do you have?
Yes, though my lifestyle may mean some are no good.
Yes. Mostly because I have generally been healthy and used to ride a motorcycle.
No need to register in Brazil, you just have to tell your family members, as they’re asked whether or not they’re ok with your organs being donated. I’ve already told my family to, once I die, donate all of my organs that might still be in good shape
I read this and assumed it was going to have a dark twist i.e. people just take them when you walk into the wrong favela.
Yes I am.
When I die, my organs are no longer of any use to me, but could improve someone else’s life. I’m not sentimental about my corpse. I’ll donate anything that’s still useful. I don’t even mind if medical students use my bones to play pranks on each other. Heck, I think I’d prefer that.
Yes, because I won’t need my organs when I’m dead.
