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Quiksilver620
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(NTR) are you an organ donor on your license?
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Re: (NTR) are you an organ donor on your license?
Yes, I am an organ donor. I will not need my organs after I die - why let them go to waste? My cousin is alive after receiving a heart from an organ donor. That is reason enough for me to listed as one, knowing that I could save a life or even multiple lives.
Yes I am, but in Vermont you also have to sign up online saying that you will donate. It's a simple step to "pay it forward"... and by that I mean LIFE, and that's a pretty awesome gift or legacy.
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I love these two beautiful children!
Yes.
When I was 10, my sister was 17 and a junior in high school. She learned about organ donation in health class and came home and told us all at dinner that if anything happened to her she would want to donate her organs. My mom was horrified that she was talking about that at the dinner table. Two weeks later she was killed in a car accident and we donated all that we could. An easy decision since we happened to know her wishes. Almost 20 years later, we're still in touch with the woman who received her kidney and pancreas - who because of the donation went on to get married and have a little girl of her own. Through all the pain, it's a pretty amazing experience.
Not gonna lie, I'm rather offended by this part...it's a personal decision I believe and it's no-one else's business...and yes, I am a proud card-carrying organ donor...
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
Yes. Because my grandfather is alive today, and has gotten to live the past 15 years, because of a heart transplant.
Somewhere out there is a set of parents were generous enough to donate their 13-year-old son's heart when he was killed in a car accident, and it went to my grandpa. I can't imagine that family's pain, but their gift to my family meant that my grandpa has been alive to see two of his granddaughters get married, to meet his great-grandchildren, and continue to be the loving and wonderful man he is for far, far longer than his own heart would've allowed. He is otherwise in near-perfect health despite being on the anti-rejection drugs for a very long time now.
I see what organ donation has done for my grandfather and our extended family, and if tragedy were to happen, I would want to make a similar gift to other families and have something good come of my death.
DD1, 1/5/2008 ~~~ DD2, 3/17/2010
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I am.
I was never more sure that I made the right decision than we got letters after my dad died (heart attack) from the donor network letting us know that his skin helped a burn victim, or his eyes were given to someone. Most of his major organs weren't usable intact, but they used valves from his heart, bone, skin, eyes... It's amazing how this gift can help so many people.
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I want to have my organs donated and my DH knows this. My wishes are expressed in my healthcare POA/will. I believe I have also registered with the national organ donor list or whatever it is called (I should double check that)
However, I have chosen not to have it listed on my license for a couple of reasons. First I am pretty sure it does not matater what your license says they still go to your family and any official documents. So in theory if I had it on there and hubby said no she didn't want that he could argue. So it seems kind of pointless.
And secondly (this is stupid) a friend once told me that she had heard of stories where they did not try as hard to save you at the scene of an accident if you were a donor. Although her family is fire fighters/EMT I still don't think this is true. But it is funny how things like this stick with you.