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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'm registered, just in case the agency in charge manages to not fuck up that day.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been registered for a while now. I really don't see a good reason not to, they only take 'em if I'm dead and what good are they to me then? Better going to someone in need.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes I am registered, because I ride motorcycles and I won't need my organs if I'm dead.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Yeah, why not? Wtf am I going to do with them when I'm dead?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, because I won't need my organs when I'm dead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not yet. As soon as some people in my country get to know I am registered, I am dead meat - worth my weight in gold. It’s dangerous.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Not sure if I'm completely registered, but any time I've been asked I check Yes, and I have it checked on my health card.

Like you said: "why not?" Not like I'll be using them any more at that point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Yes, I don't see why not. What else am I gonna do with my organs when I'm dead?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No. Ineligible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

no, I will when I'm 18 tho

like others have said, I'm dead, idgaf

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My ID says I am, but I'm not registered anywhere else. Why did I have my ID say it? Because I felt like it that day when I renewed it. That's literally all there was to it.

Real talk though, I almost don't think I should be donating my organs. Why should the hospital get for free what they're going to charge a family hundreds of thousands of dollars for?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I got a double lung transplant 17 years ago when I was in my 20’s.

The actual logistics of transporting, then transplanting an organ is unbelievably complex.

Most of the cost is everything involved in the procedure. In fact I’d have to check me itemized bill and see if they actually charged for the actual lungs or just all the handling of them.

Anyways, someone’s generous choice has given me another 17 years on the planet. (I was born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic lung disease).

I am also an organ donor, if my eyes, skin, anything could help anyone else, I’m all for it. Hospital profit never even came to mind when thinking about choosing to be a donor or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Well, I never really thought about it until now either. Haha. Though, it was mostly a choice of apathy, since when I'm dead I won't really care what someone does with them, I only really get to pretend that I will while I'm alive today.

If they're not charging for my organs that get donated, then that's pretty cool. I mean, I was given mine for free, so it only makes sense to give them for free when I'm done with them.

Of course, I live in the middle of nowhere, so whether they'll find someone who can use my stuff before it goes bad is a whole different thing entirely.

It's good that you were able to find some lungs.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Thankfully it's opt-out in Slovakia, so yes.

I'll be dead. Do whatever with my body. Take the organs, fuck it, feed it to animals, compost it, use it as shooting target, turn me into soap, I won't care. I literally won't be able to care. Why even decline?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes. I can't think of a better use for them than saving a life (or hopefully lives) at the time when not only they're not going to be useful to me, but there will actually be no me to even be able to make use of them.

And I live a healthy life, so hopefully some of them might be useful whether I die of old age or any other cause (except falling into a meat grinder of course, then all this gym going and veg eating will be in vein).

Also, fingers crossed they'll find a dope body who's my HLA match and will need a brain transplant 🀞

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

In Austria you have to register to NOT be an organ donor. So we have about 99% donors (after brain death). I am a donor too, as I neither care about my body once I am dead nor bother to register for anything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yes I am.

When I die, my organs are no longer of any use to me, but could improve someone else's life. I'm not sentimental about my corpse. I'll donate anything that's still useful. I don't even mind if medical students use my bones to play pranks on each other. Heck, I think I'd prefer that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I'm set to donate my body to science. Maybe I even get to be a skeleton in a class room or sum πŸ’€

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Judging by this comment thread I'm not the only one who's like "you can have them, but I don't know if you're going to want them"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, both to receive and give organs. I'm just not comfortable with the idea.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Look to be honest I don't agree with your stance but I respect the fact that you both don't wish to donate and more importantly receive. I fell some people would be quite happy to take but not give.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

The real test is how they feel when they actually need the organs.

Not meaning to call anyone out, but it's easy to say no to organs when you're life isn't on the line.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My spouse and I are registered to donate our bodies to a medical college. If we can advance medicine in even a small way, it is still a move to better life and health.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Best we can do is weird grift where no one bothers even remembering your names.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah dude, if I have anything they can use. It's not like I'll be using them anymore, and I have a couple of friends who've gotten donor organs, so I've seen firsthand how it impacts people. I tried to be a kidney donor for another friend but it turns out I don't have enough extra function that they thought I could give one away. I'm fine, my kidneys are just not going above and beyond, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Pessimistic about anything still being useful at this point, but hoping I am wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

There are also cadaver farms where they study how bodies decompose in different conditions to help with forensic science.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yep. I'll be dead anyway, so I have no use for them anymore. If it can save someone's life then imo it'd be a bit selfish not to. I was already registered when it was still opt-in, but now it's become opt-out here in the Netherlands so even better. It'll make sure that a lot of people who don't care either way will now save life's that we otherwise wouldn't.

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