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13 months for me....I should put that in writing.
If no improvement pull it.
And SW...my condolences to you and your family...at least within your mother's loss, there was life for others.
Mrs. Chopper told me if she's ever in a coma and considered brain dead that she wants me to give her a year before the plug is pulled. I can't even imagine having to do that.
I guess I always think that miracles can happen. I've heard of instances where someone who was considered to be in a vegetative state has come out of it and recovered, so it's hard to say what I'd want. I guess it's something I should think about I suppose. I hate the idea of leaving my family behind, especially my little boy. I pray for protection from such an event ever occurring.
Scary.
13 months for me....I should put that in writing.
If no improvement pull it.
And SW...my condolences to you and your family...at least within your mother's loss, there was life for others.
Texpro here on QS's machine:
Organ Donation is a highly personal issue. Some folks have religous beliefs that prevent them from donating organs. Others just plain don't like the idea of living on in someone else's body. Sure you might save someone's life, but suppose that person turns out to be an ax murderer or worse? These issues seem simple, until you start thinking about them.
Bottom line. Donating your organs however right it may seem must remain a voluntary act by someone. You can express your own wishes or leave the choice and responsibility to those who survive you. A decision not to donate must be respected as much as a decision to donate. What we don't want and can't have is a view that this is the only right thing to do. Such an idea will ultimately lead to a law forcing us to do the right thing and "donate" our our organs after death. If we are forced to donate our organs, then they are no longer ours. And if they are no longer ours ... Well maybe there is someone else who is more worthy of them than you are. That is a precedent none of us can afford.
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Hey Kori can you email me my password so I can post from my machine? skeATrunbox.com
I agree 100% tex
Texpro -- as far as I can see, you never signed up here after we moved off of ezboard. Your user name is not on the member list. So you just need to register.Texpro
Hey Kori can you email me my password so I can post from my machine?
I've already donated a kidney; I think being brain dead will make the process less painful next time. If my time is up, please kill me -- and do it cool and tape it so it'll be on all the college humor websites. If I'm dead before someone finds me I want some kids to cart me around in their car Weekend at Bernie's-style and use me to try to buy some beer at a drive-thru convenince store.
SW my condolences to you and your family. But i also commend your family and mother for the donation of her organs. A lady at the church i work at donated her 20 year old sons organs when he passed. She said out of that travesty that was the best thing she could have done. She speaks so greatly of the organ donation process. She said they do it with a lot of respect for the human body.
I'm still skeptical if i would want to donate organs if i pass. There are days when I wonder I think i want to, but then there are days where i think im afraid too. I dont know what it is...but its something i feel my parents and i should talk about as well.
Again my prayers are with SW's family and also with The Schavio and Schindler families.
What do you guys who aren't donating plan to do with your organs after you're dead?
I hope mine don't go into some dude who's an asshole, but I don't think i can legally specify that.
I guess mine will rot and become fertilizer for something else. A part of the cycle of life.
i'd like to see the stats on how much faster donors "die" than non-donors.
Four years ago, my grandson died of SIDS. No reason, no way to blame those of us who put him down for a nap and discovered him dead two hours later.
If you have never been in this position, you will never know the horror of it.
My son and daughter-in-law decided to donate whatever body parts could be used to save a life, make a life better. In their pain and agony, they thought about another child - one unknown to them - who could be saved by the donation of Duncan's body-parts.
You think that's wrong? You think that's morbid? No! That's a celebration of Duncan's short life.
At some point, all of us who realize that death is inevitable, can come to terms with our own mortality. I'd love to think that I'll life forever, but I won't. Because I realize this truth, I'm more than willing to be an organ donor.
Think! Coffin, grave, mouldering... Well that's a of a legacy, eh?
I'm sorry about your grandson.
No. It was great. But it was your family's personal choice.You think that's wrong?
Not everyone will want to make those same choices.
Everyone has the right to make the decision for themselves based upon their criteria.
I want them to take whatever can be of good use from my body when I die (that is, if there's anything left after the "Hey, Earl! Watch me do this!" incident I imagine will hasten my demise.)
I'll be getting a new one, anyway, so I'm don't care what they do with this body.
Photo of Terri Schiavo prior to her incapacitation. Friends contend Terri was never bulemic and that foul play cannot be ruled out as a cause of the incapacitation. I'm not sure what to believe about Terri and her husband but it seems there are many question marks in this story.
the whole story is sad.
WTF does he just not divorce her and let her parents and sister take care of her???
If that were my son in the situation and his wife would not let us keep him alive or try to get him well, I would have to kill the .
Thats a very interesting question to consider. I've never really put much thought into it at first but I now realize how important of a topic it is and have wanted to sit down with my parents and talk it out.
As far as donors, I remember when growing up I used to be scared to death about giving up my organs because I used to think once I died I would be going to heaven incomplete or something. lol I know its a silly thought but as a kid it would hold me back. Then as an adult I considered it again and was told by someone that when you are a donor you aren't put as a priority to have your life saved. They won't really try as hard. Now I don't know if that is true or not but it scared me off again.
Now my mother is in need of a kidney transplant and I pray for her health every day. I would give mine up in a second and now I think different about organ donors. I know I would be forever grateful to get that call and hear someone's a match for her. And if I could help someone's loved one somehow I would. Its such a tough subject and I wouldn't come down on someone for believing something either way cause I can understand it coming from both sides.
SW, I can't imagine how difficult it must have been losing your mother and making that tough decision. I know I will never be the same person again when I lose my mother. She is everything to me. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
The hospital has absolutely no way of knowing whether or not someone receiving treatment at any level is a donor or not unless you tell them. It's not on your DL anymore.Then as an adult I considered it again and was told by someone that when you are a donor you aren't put as a priority to have your life saved. They won't really try as hard. Now I don't know if that is true or not but it scared me off again.
And thank you and everyone for your kind words....I'm still in the "this is not really happening" stage.SW, I can't imagine how difficult it must have been losing your mother and making that tough decision. I know I will never be the same person again when I lose my mother. She is everything to me. You are in my thoughts and prayers
It is in New Mexico.
I never once bought into the myth that someone would treat you less if they thought you were a donor. Just sounds silly to me.
It isn't in Texas unless it's on the magnetic strip somehow....I had my mom's and mine and it's not designated one way or the other...
Me, too.I never once bought into the myth that someone would treat you less if they thought you were a donor. Just sounds silly to me.
Have you gotten tested to see if you're a match?Now my mother is in need of a kidney transplant and I pray for her health every day. I would give mine up in a second and now I think different about organ donors.
No I wasn't, nor anyone in our family. I asked about it immediately and she was told by her doctor that she didn't want us as donors because diabetes runs in our family. I guess we need them. I don't care either way, I still insisted on wanting to get checked to give mine but they just put her on the donor list, which you know is never ending
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