Yes, though my lifestyle may mean some are no good.
I don’t know the specifics by country, but you could donate your body to science (medicine schools, etc.) Your life could be useful in the classroom 😄
Yes, it just feels like the right thing to do. Why let them go to waste if they can help someone else live.
I think so? I should check though.
Friends and family know to strip me down for parts as aggressively as possible.
No. This world made me selfish.
I am and I hope to have everything unsalvageable cremated
I’m volunteer to donate because of I accidentally die, rather that it deserve someone who would have more luck than me rather than no one.
Now in Belgium it works a bit differently. Everyone is, by default, considered as a donor.
You can then register to either refuse it or to impose it whatever your family says.
This is because the law is that the doctors must always ask the family if they are ok to give organs from diseased family member even with the “by default donor”, with the registration you can say “don’t ask my family and just do it”.
This can be used in two situation in my opinion, the first one being family that have different conviction and may refuse despite the opinion of the diseased. The second situation (mine) being not wanting to worry grieving family with one more difficult decision to take.
Judging by this comment thread I’m not the only one who’s like “you can have them, but I don’t know if you’re going to want them”
There’s some of us that probably have perfectly good organs, but due to various blood born viruses we can’t donate even though we squashed the buggers with new medications.
Thankfully it’s opt-out in Slovakia, so yes.
I’ll be dead. Do whatever with my body. Take the organs, fuck it, feed it to animals, compost it, use it as shooting target, turn me into soap, I won’t care. I literally won’t be able to care. Why even decline?
Fuck it?
id personally be ok if people didn’t use my dead body as a shooting target. soap would be pretty nice tho.
I would buy your soap
no, I will when I’m 18 tho
like others have said, I’m dead, idgaf
Not sure if I’m completely registered, but any time I’ve been asked I check Yes, and I have it checked on my health card.
Like you said: “why not?” Not like I’ll be using them any more at that point.
I am not registered, but I have a organ donor card (where I approve organ donations).
Background:
Germany just recently (18th of March this year) launched an online database where you can register your preference. Until then there was only a small organ donor card that you could fill out and carry with you.
Reason I haven’t registered there yet is that I first need to unlock the online function on my passport (nowadays always enabled, but I still have one from when it was optional). So I’ll eventually get around to doing both.
As for my reasoning behind being a donor:
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I would like to receive them in an emergency (or for someone I care about to do so).
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And in case I become a donor I am not there anymore to care about what people do with my organs.
TIL, registering there right away.
I’ve had my donor card for a long time now (for about the same reasons as you), this solution seems at least a little better. I would still very much welcome an “opt-out” system, or something that would make the decision mandatory for everyone. You can always say no with no questions ask, but there are likely so many people that would have no problem donating but just never thought about the topic.
Yeah, i’d have also loved if we moved to an “opt-out” system or one where you are asked to choose at some point.
If we had more than enough organs for everyone we might be able to afford the “luxury” to not adress the issue, but we don’t. And compared to the very real consequences this deficit has, it really isn’t a burden to reverse the burden through opt-out or at least force people to choose. Not making a choice has just as much consequences, if not more (since it leaves it ambiguous for others that might later have to make the choice for you).
And as you said the majority probably has no problem being a donor, but the default state is a form of apathy/lazyness/ignorance. So like with many other issues a top down approach would be way more effective, compared to putting the burden on every single individual to be proactive.
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My spouse and I are registered to donate our bodies to a medical college. If we can advance medicine in even a small way, it is still a move to better life and health.
Best we can do is weird grift where no one bothers even remembering your names.
Yes, but I’ve since been diagnosed with leukemia… Hopefully that doesn’t mean my spare parts are trash but I suspect that’s the case.
Yes. My state makes it really easy, just check a box when renewing your ID or driver’s license. I can only hope if I lost my life I could give a new lease on life to someone else.
