This subject is very dear to my heart .... I've been a donor for years and as I get older and have enjoyed many areas of life ... I'd be honored to help someone else enjoy all aspects of Their life ~ once I know longer need my body parts to live .. I offered to give one of my kidneys to my girlfriend a couple of years ago when we found out she had discovered that she now has cancer on her 1 and only kidney - because she lost a kidney 7yrs ago due to cancer. But God decided to heal her, so I still have both of mine .... It just so happens that today I was reading a quote I saved years ago and I know my children will respect my decisions.... here's just a tiny bit of this quote ..

At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped. Don't call this 'my death bed'. Call it my 'bed of life' and let my body be taken from it to help others lead fuller lives.
Give my sight to a man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby's face or love in the eyes of a woman.
Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain.
Give my blood to the teenager who has been pulled from a car wreak, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play.
Give my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week.
Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve in my body, and find a way to make a crippled child walk.
Explore every corner of my brain. Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain against her windows.
If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses, and all my prejudice against my fellow man.
If, by chance, you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have asked, I will live forever.

And after all these things have been used ... donate the rest of the body to the Body Farm in Knoxville, Tenn. so that it may help to solve the death of a loved one that was taken from this life to early.

Being a Donor is a personal thing and I respect Anyone's decision either way they decide .... This is just my 2cents ...

 

since I'm married, I have an organ I'm not using

 

Are you SURE? Cuz that's not what I heard.

I heard that when you applied for your CDL, you ASKED for an "organ" donation... and they told you no. :cry:

Your wife says you've GOT an organ, but it's more like a SONY than a Wurlitzer... and it hasn't been "upright" in years! :lol:

Hee Hee.... this is fun.

 

I hope you're not blaming ME for that. You were "warned." :lol:

 

You have an hilarious POINT there! Thanks for the badly needed "laugh!"

In light of this... I suggest we ALL try to keep it 'tween the ditches... and avoid hospitals on our way HOME every night (or whenever.)

BTW... I just saw "Soylent Green" in its entirety for the first time in YEARS.

 

in New Zealand we also have the option on our drivers license ,mine says yes

 

ironeagle said:

I've had a few cops ask me the same thing!

Why make them wait? Offer to let them slice it up now, with electrodes on each slice, while your heart is still pumping American RED CRUDE! You could advance medical science by DECADES... and avoid so much suffering. [By ALL of us! J/K]

Actually, most of us DO. The brain is a magnificent specimen of adaptability and compromise. We use about 10%. The rest IS "backup."

So... you were just too damned stubborn... or pizzed off... to die! That's good enough for me. I can't understand that one needs "a reason" to refuse to die!

All joking aside... IF you think science could benefit from studying how YOUR brain overcame such a deficit... I HOPE you've made that offer clear. It really COULD make a difference to many people someday.

 

Good on ya, mate. Supplies of "fresh organs" are even LOWER in such isolated places as where you live. I'm not sure an "American organ" would be fresh enough by the time it got to your country... and someone who needed it.

You are literally "on your own" in this case. But... you've always been there for each other.

Well.... you had the Aussies.

 

Thanks for chiming in 4Roses. That was an awesome quote.

And thanks for being willing to make a living donation. It still counts... and it may still be needed.

I don't know about that heart, tho. Most humans probably couldn't survive "owning" it.

Anyways... thanks.

 

The only Bible I've ever known says you won't. I don't personally KNOW.... so, you're rationale will not be challenged further. The Egyptians had some ideas on this.