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Member 4527

Level 17.53

Apr 2006

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Dec 5, 2007, 03:55 PM
Local time: Dec 5, 2007, 01:55 PM
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Are you an organ donor?
I remember when I first got my license, they gave me a card asking me if I wanted to be an organ donor, and I don't remember all of it, nor do I remember if I signed the card (but I think I did), but I think it's just for your internal organs or maybe donating your whole body to science. I know you can donate your body to the local university here and they will use your body for like a decade or so, but they will take care of all transporting and burial costs once it's said and done, so it's a pretty sweet deal if you're broke, since the costs of burials and cemetary plots and all that stuff costs a fortune nowadays, and you should see how much those guys that prep the bodies get paid:
What a joke, if your deceased loves ones knew how much it would cost you to put them in the ground (some people even go into debt with this shit for their family, since they have no life insurance or whatever it is that covers it; don't know why they call it life insurance when you're dead though, go figure), they'd be rolling in their graves. I guess that's why some people opt for cremation, since it's cheaper and all that, plus you can have them hanging around your house: hopefully they won't haunt you and ghosts aren't real (though I'm always hopeful).
Anyway, a long time ago one of my younger cousins had to stay in the hospital because he needed a heart transplant, and he was waiting for a match, and he almost died, but at the last second there was a donor that was able to give him that heart, and now he's still alive and well. I know a lot of people die each day waiting on organs from donors too, so my question if are you a donor, or would you consider the possibility of being an organ donor (or even those full body donors, like the cadavers you get see in your biology classes)?
I think I'm signed up as a donor, but I'll have to make sure, don't know where I can find out, and make sure that I'm signed up as an organ donor, or maybe I'll find out that dealio at the university so they can use my body when I'm dead. I think it's a good way to go out, since you'll be helping someone live their life now that yours is gone. I can be pretty selfish when it comes to some things, but I think this is a good case in where pays not to be selfish. Who knows, maybe one of my family members will need my kidney or something someday. How about you guys?
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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