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[–] viralJ@lemmy.world 2 points 7 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 🤞

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 2 points 7 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.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

Not in the US but yes.

[–] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 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.

[–] weariedfae@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

People are downvoting you because they are probably from a Western country and haven't heard of this before.

To them I advise they Google "gangs hunting organ donors".

This absolutely happens in multiple countries.

I'm sorry you face this threat.

[–] dragontangram88@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No. I used to do that. I stopped doing that after I registered for be the match and had gangs subsequently stalk and harass me. I had people threatening to shoot me over the past several years, which may or may not be tied to registering, but many of their threats were motivated by my blood type. I’m the universal blood type donor. I’ve had several people, throughout my life, make comments about having me killed for my organs since I’m everybody’s type. I know it was just people being cruel, but I really feel more at ease by not being a listed organ donor.

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[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yes. I check the organ donor box when I renew my driver's license. If I'm in an accident then I don't need 'em anymore. Let someone else use 'em.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Due to my own medical reasons, I'm not.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

No. Ineligible.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

I think so? I should check though.

Friends and family know to strip me down for parts as aggressively as possible.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but they aren’t going to like my liver.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

No.

  1. It's opt-in in my country.
  2. I fear that medical personnel will give up on me way too easily and early if they know that I am a donor. Or that it's even rooted in malicious intent.
[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz -1 points 7 months ago (15 children)
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[–] Willie@kbin.social -1 points 7 months ago (2 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?

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[–] ani@endlesstalk.org -1 points 7 months ago

No. This world made me selfish.

[–] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social -4 points 7 months ago

No. There are too many people on this planet.

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