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Have you signed to donate your organs to save the lives of others after you die?

Why/why not?
What are the pro’s and con’s?

Posted - September 11, 2018
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  • 1502
    I am an organ donor. It’s even in my driver’s license. If I’m dead my organs are no longer of use to me. Why not give them to someone who is alive who needs them and can have their life saved? I don’t see any cons in this. The possibility of saving the life or lives of one or more person is the only positive that matters. It’s one last selfless deed I can do for others. 
      September 11, 2018 7:46 PM MDT
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  • Could not have said it better. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 3, 2019 8:11 AM MST
      February 3, 2019 8:00 AM MST
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  • yeah duh what will i need  them for 
      September 11, 2018 7:51 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    I am an organ donor. If a piece of me can live on to benefit another life after I’m done with it, that’s a great thing. 
      September 11, 2018 7:52 PM MDT
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  • 11087
    I am a donor, but I have a sister who firmly believes that the doctors will not try as hard to save you if they know they can harvest your organs.
      September 11, 2018 8:01 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    Your sister's theory would be a good one for a Ph.D. student to investigate and publish.
    I suspect that if she was proven right, the number of donors would drop dramatically,
    but being intelligent enough to realize that, doctors would not take such risks.

    Then again, the days of new organs vat grown from one's own stem cells are not far away. This post was edited by inky at February 3, 2019 6:21 AM MST
      September 11, 2018 8:06 PM MDT
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  • 44649
    I am donating my corpse to a local teaching hospital. My organs are too pickled to donate, but my body might help med students.
      September 11, 2018 9:54 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    Your body might help the med students learn why it's not a good idea to pickle organs.

    I got a shock in aged care training when taught that the organs of the very old get an extra half a life of longevity when transplanted into young bodies - but the young bodies only get half the life out of the old organs compared to if their own had been healthy. 
      September 12, 2018 1:00 AM MDT
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  • 44649
    Fascinating. I can see the med students' faces when they slice and dice me.
      September 12, 2018 6:26 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    I am donating my body to science fiction. The left overs are up for grabs by anyone who doesnt mind used parts.
      September 11, 2018 10:56 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    Mine are worn out, no one would want them. 
      September 12, 2018 6:21 AM MDT
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  • 53524

      Wait, what about me . . . ?

    ~
      February 3, 2019 6:20 AM MST
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  • 5808
    yes indeed
      September 12, 2018 8:46 AM MDT
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  • I am not an organ donor currently. Not sure, just didn't like the idea of it. Seemed kind of morbid. But I'm willing to change my mind about that.
      September 12, 2018 9:40 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    If I donate organs for transplant -how could I be completely dead if those organs are still alive and kicking in someone's body?
    Anyway my intent is to donate my body to medical science. 
      September 12, 2018 9:56 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    i actually said they could take nny heart and its on nny id
      September 12, 2018 10:33 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I am an organ donor.  I won't be needing them at that point.
      September 12, 2018 1:15 PM MDT
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  • 34435
    Yes. 
      February 3, 2019 6:15 AM MST
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  • 53524

      Yes, but not just my organs, my entire body will be turned over to medical science so that they can study my awesomenisitude and pass it on to the rest of humanity.  I'm cool like that. 

    ~

     
      February 3, 2019 6:26 AM MST
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  • 44649
    They can clone you. Eventually everyone in the world will have perfect grammar.
      February 3, 2019 7:57 AM MST
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  • Absolutely
      February 3, 2019 7:59 AM MST
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