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I am a donor. My wife Grace was, she died about 2 years ago at age 52. Her corneas gave sight to 2 women in their 60's. I like to think that they are enjoying the sight of their grandkids as much as Grace enjoyed ours.

The organ donation center in Pittsburgh (https://www.core.org/) was great to work with, very caring, supportive, and respectful. Although Grace was cremated, we could have had an open casket after they were done. They have an annual gathering and lunch for the families of that years donors to say thank you. Some of the recipients and families are there. Sometimes it's as simple as replacement tendons in a shoulder, sometimes it's as major as a new heart for a small child. And they do a memorial photo presentation during lunch, there was not a dry eye in the house. Kind of teary eyed here now too.

As to worn out parts, they do ask health questions, Grace had diabetes, low kidney function, COPD, a heart attack and some other issues but they were still able to harvest the corneas, skin, tendons, and bone. With the bone, Grace came full circle, she had neck surgery and they used cadaver bone on her. Just seems right that they were able to get bone from her for someone else.

Finally, make sure your driver license or other ID indicates that you're a donor, your family may not remember. I know I completely forgot until the hospital staff mentioned it after she died that morning.

Dale

Nurse Jackie makes every young person a donor, I saw it on Netflix.

Our Captains name was Morgan,
By gawd he had a gorgon,
Ten times a day,
He would stop and play,
With his reproductive organ!

Yeah, I'm signed up to be a donor. My Wife has been able to enjoy our Grandchildren because some generous person donated a liver. I would like to pay it forward.

Actually, I joined the Campfire while we were in the hospital. During the long hours of sitting around in the room I began playing around on her computer.

That's exactly how I got here.....
Spent 3.5 years on the list, and 2 years bed ridden before and after the operation.
Something I often think of. I had a loaded .357 in the next room, and never had the slightest thought of "ending it all".
Two years in bed is a LONG time.....

Good stories for the most part folks, I talked to a man just an hour, or two ago that has needed two liver transplants.

My 55 year old cousin died of a heart attack years ago.
It took days, skin, long bones, a bit grizzly, but think about how many lives he made longer, and better.

I'm a donor. That being said, there should be a legal mechanism by which people can sell the rights to their organs while alive. Kind of like a reverse mortgage.

People would take better care of themselves if for example, their blood work indicated their internals were worth say 100k vs 10k.

..then again if my innards ended up in nan pelosi or suck's schumer , I'd spend eternity spinning in my grave, or urn ?


til there's a way to specify who gets my guts , I'm stayin' intact , fuggem'

No. EMS and ER doctors that know 1) you're an organ donor, and 2) that there is a child who desperately needs your organs, could not help but be psychologically impacted such that he will quit sooner in revival efforts if your heart has stopped. Also, organ removal is done while the donor is alive, and that without any efforts at pain control, under the assumption that the donor, being "legally dead," is incapable of feeling pain, which may or may not be true in all cases.

hmmm…are you sure about that?? For all organs? Liver and kidney can be and I agree but all others?

Yes

Nobody would want my organs. I'm at the moment in the process of being put on the Heart Transplant list at Vanderbilt.

Again, we could use DocRocket now.

If they take the heart first, how much longer could a body live?

Quiet a while if on a bypass pump

Tell that to the parents and wife of a healthy 20yr old young man recently married with a 1 yr old little girl, one year left before his degree. Other than his head wrapped with a bandage he looked like he would jump up and go for a bike ride. Not nearly as easy as you suggest......

They dont graft in black hearts.

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So, part of your cousin still lives.

Now that angle was a real angel.

Best of luck to you.

will see how it goes if it ever happens, thanks