I can imagine nothing better coming from my death( or that of anyone else ) than to give sight to a blind person, or get someone off a dialysis machine. I'll be dead, they're no good to me.
Totally agree. And when asked would I accept donations, I would grab them with both hands. I love my life and want it to continue healthily for as long as possible so really I have no moral choice to make. I would/will donate anything useful but...I still struggle to think of myself as dead. Just me...I'll come round.
I'm not making any judgments (honestly I'm not) about those who don't want to donate organs, to "strangers" but i wonder if your child/ grandchild, spouse for example , needed a kidney/ heart to carry on living, and yours were fine , would that be different? Just curious.
I've heard it said that everyone has a 'favourite' fear, and mine is mutilation.
It's why I never got my ears pierced or considered a tattoo and why I can't use a chainsaw.
It's why it was me who cried the first time my tiny daughter fell over and grazed her perfect skin. I did allow her to have her ears pierced though, when she was old enough to make a rational decision.
But I have carried a donor card for many years, since I became aware of the scheme, as I will neither know nor care by that stage, and it seems to me immoral not to help someone if it is possible.
As for accepting a donation for myself, I think it might depend on what was needed and how otherwise old and decrepit I was. There could well be someone in greater need.
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When you don't even know who's in the team
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