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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You know what's amazing? All these people who are afraid to donate organs. there's this bizarre urban myth going around that if you're a donee, the EMTs will let you die rather than resucitate you. Unbelievable. I've actually argued with my mother about this. Its outrageously selfish NOT to be an organ donor, apart from being logically indefensible. If I were God, I'd never let non-donees into heaven.
S(and this might be the one point on which I can unequivocally say I'm not mainly, but ENTIRELY correct - get yourself listed as a donor)D
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I am not listed as a donor for reasons I cannot articulate. Not the above urban myth. I think I have some visceral negative reacton to having someone cut up my body and take it apart after I am dead. Which is just stupid. I'll check the box next time I have a chance. It's like the doctor said when I brought my friend to the hospital to get his head stitched up after a mountain-biking-without-helmet accident. "Bikers make good organ donors. Healthy organs and, when they bike without a helmet, usually the only thing damaged when they die is the brain." I wear a helmet all the time now, but still . . .
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