Ok, I'm gonna just say it, STOP WITH THIS! Pushing the narrative that they take organs while people are still alive is awful! It's awful for everyone involved. It also puts doubt in people's mind about donating.
Why does this upset me so much? If you don't know, THIS topic and subject is a little touchy for me as I had a transplant on 10/7/03, at the age of 27 (liver) and if it wasn't for that person donating their organs, I wouldn't be here today. This is a topic I am INCREDIBLY passionate about. So much so I want to get a tattoo of my transplant date & the Penn shield on my arm as a reminder.
Do you think this is the only story ever to come out about someone under anesthesia, but isn't given enough to fully sedate them and the patient feels everything? That has been discussed during many different procedures, be in minor or major. If you put in the minds of people this nonsense (that they try to harvest organs from live people) then the list of people who mark their DL to be a donor, gets smaller and smaller and more people die. There are already more like who need transplants who can't get them than organs available so making the pool of available donors smaller (by not marking your license) is not good. Please stop with the conspiracy ********!
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I'm sorry I'm gonna say this, but that's very selfish of you! But with your post of "sorry not sorry" you already don't care, which is a shame.
When you pass away, your organs are going to go to waste. Those can save the lives of up to a dozen people who desperately need a transplant to live. Are you telling me, that if your health got so bad you yourself needed a transplant, you wouldn't take one and you would just die? Because you would take the organ if one became available, don't say you wouldn't. That would be HORRIBLY hypocritical! Having gone though this, I hope you never have to deal with all that this entails. Because words don't even describe 10% of it.
It's easy for people to say all this stuff never experiencing acute organ failure to the point you have weeks, days or hours to live. Until one has experienced an "end of days" moment, you don't truly understand how thankful you are for the type of medical breakthroughs and advancements we have. I'll forever be thankful for my donor. I had less than 2 weeks left had I not gotten the call. My liver was dead (black and not light pink of a healthy one) and I was on death's door. Seeing my parents, including my dad, who has NEVER shown visible emotion, have tears in his eyes as they wheeled me away for surgery that morning, not knowing if I was gonna make it, still gets me today (He's 87 and still working on cars and going strong) was tough for me, I lost it before I went under. But again, THANKFUL doesn't fully describe it.
This goes to everyone, unless it's on religion grounds and your faith doesn't allow it, mark the box for your license. You will give a 2nd chance for someone who desperately needs it.
I'm off my soapbox now.
