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I checked that box on my recent DL renewal (against my family's wish). The moving send off photo in the article confirms I made the right choice.
by asadlionpk 6y ago
I checked that box on my recent DL renewal (against my family's wish). The moving send off photo in the article confirms I made the right choice.
- munk-a 6y agoThere is a lot of mysticism around our bodies once we pass on - and when that happens we've lost all the ability to bask in the honor of our act or receive the appreciation - but our bodies are also quite worthless to ourselves at that point and can be of an immense value to others. Organ donation is a very sensitive subject since it can be viewed as losing the coherence of all that remains of someone, but the benefits to others can be extreme. This particular story involved someone getting a heart transplant and, while it was surely a loss that this individual died, after they died they enabled another person who had a limited lease on life to get a lot more time out of something that would have decayed in the ground or be cremated.
- piyh 6y agoI'm all for organ donation, but it's something we'll look back on in 60 years and marvel at how complicated and crude it was compared to growing new ones with the patient's own cells. In the mean time it's definitely a silver lining for those left behind.
- input_sh 6y ago> (against my family's wish) Where I'm from they're gonna ask my family for confirmation regardless. Fortunately for me they're okay with it.
- asadlionpk 6y agoThey will still honor it. But it's understandably hard for them to even think about at it right now.
- gumby 6y agoWhy would your family object? Among other reasons it's your body, not theirs, but apart from that by what basis would anyone choose to object to helping others in this way? Genuinely curious.
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- asadlionpk 6y agoDeath is already a difficult thing to think or talk about for your loved ones let alone harvesting the organs from your body.
- WalterBright 6y agoI figure the worms will eat me anyway, so why not be an organ donor? I don't find any comfort in visiting the gravesites of relatives, either. Whatever made them what they were isn't there. My father once told me that a dead body is like a house with nobody home. That's how I feel about it, too.
- asadlionpk 6y agoYour father is right. I would still visit the gravesite to remind myself of death in general. I imagine it helps ground me, prioritize things, etc.