Are any of you organ donors? Had he not received a donated liver, he would have died last year or the year before. :/
Are any of you organ donors? Had he not received a donated liver, he would have died last year or the year before. :/
So you're saying he bought his way to the top of the transplant list? I don't (didn't?) know much about his illness other than him briefly discussing getting a liver transplant from a 20 something.He also had resources that most people don't.
No-one would want mine.
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So you're saying he bought his way to the top of the transplant list? I don't (didn't?) know much about his illness other than him briefly discussing getting a liver transplant from a 20 something.
I don't even want to be cremated. I want to be mummified and entombed.
Hoping to come back and haunt us all?
I've never understood the religious aspect of banning organ donation. Why is that?
Just because your organs aren't perfect doesn't mean they won't want them. And it's not just your lungs or your liver that people want. They can use your heart, kidneys, pancreas, lungs, liver and intestines. Tissue that can be donated include eye, skin, bone, heart valves and tendons. People think they've smoked or drank too much or they've been sick or whatever and that makes their organs and tissues not viable, but it isn't the case. My dad smoked for 45 years and drank nearly daily for that long too (not a huge amount, but he always had a cocktail or two after work). They still managed to make use of most of his organs and a lot of his tissue and bone too. My mom was so eaten by cancer and she died at home, so she wasn't a candidate for organ donation, but her entire body was used for medical research and then cremated and the remains were returned to us about a year later. There are lots of options to consider.
Not to sound callus but do they deliver ashes in person or just regular mail them to you? It would suck to get excited thinking you got a treat in the mail and then to realize it was ashes.
No, they deliver them to you in person and you have to sign for them or in some instances you can pick them up from the funeral home. It's still a creepy thing. You get a box and a certificate of cremation as well as the toe tag from the body and a chain of custody.
Interesting. I was told that the conservative side of Judaism disallowed organ donation.Actually most religions support organ donation. http://www.organdonor.gov/aboutRelViews.asp