How many of us are organ donors?
09-03-2010, 03:56 PM
#112
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Springfield,South Carolina
Posts: 500
Originally Posted by 2wheelwoman
Just in the last week I've read on the QB about someone in need of a transplant, and someone who died before getting one. I just wondered how many of us have taken the time to sign up to be donors?
I have. I personally don't care what they do with my carcass when I'm done with it - but if I can help another person in any way, I want to. It would be my last Act of Kindness.
If you haven't signed up, please think about it, and talk with your family members about it for themselves too.
I have. I personally don't care what they do with my carcass when I'm done with it - but if I can help another person in any way, I want to. It would be my last Act of Kindness.
If you haven't signed up, please think about it, and talk with your family members about it for themselves too.
09-03-2010, 05:24 PM
#113
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Oak Ridge TN
Posts: 733
I am. I won't need it anymore.
DH is HCV positive and wants to be donated to science for research on the disease, then cremated. His family is adamantly opposed. I told them I had it in writing and it WOULD happen.
Neither DS is and will not discuss it.
DH is HCV positive and wants to be donated to science for research on the disease, then cremated. His family is adamantly opposed. I told them I had it in writing and it WOULD happen.
Neither DS is and will not discuss it.
09-07-2010, 09:01 PM
#119
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: KY, along the Ohio River
Posts: 173
My DH and I are both organ donors,have been for several years.
Our DD needed a Pancreas/Kidney transplant but she didn't get it,she died in 2003. We donated her organs but the only things that they could use (because of her Diabetes and other medical problems)were her skin and eyes. But she helped a man in SD be able to see. Our son was killed the next day after we lost our DD by a drunk driver, but because they couldn't get our son and his friends out of the truck for over an hour, and then they had to do an autopsy, we couldn't donate his organs. He was a healthy 21 yr. old. I really felt bad because of not being able to help someone else.
Our DD needed a Pancreas/Kidney transplant but she didn't get it,she died in 2003. We donated her organs but the only things that they could use (because of her Diabetes and other medical problems)were her skin and eyes. But she helped a man in SD be able to see. Our son was killed the next day after we lost our DD by a drunk driver, but because they couldn't get our son and his friends out of the truck for over an hour, and then they had to do an autopsy, we couldn't donate his organs. He was a healthy 21 yr. old. I really felt bad because of not being able to help someone else.
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