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.
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Yes. And I volunteer plasma every 2 weeks. Up to 25 donations in a weeks time.
Organ donation is the last honorable / good thing you can do for the world after you've left. You'll be forgotten soon after dying, so might as well make it worth something
For everyone who says they're not comfortable with the idea of receiving, when you're in a desperate situation thinking of mortality, I'm sure you'll suddenly change your mind.
Even small things like when I was in Nepal, I've seen people turn desperate. When it comes down life or death, what choice do you have?
You can choose death, it's right there in the question.
Yes. Mostly because I have generally been healthy and used to ride a motorcycle.
Due to my own medical reasons, I'm not.
Yes, because I won't need my organs when I'm dead.
Well, I can’t take them with me…
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.
I think so? I should check though.
Friends and family know to strip me down for parts as aggressively as possible.
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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No. Ineligible.
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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No.
- It's opt-in in my country.
- 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.
No. This world made me selfish.
No.
The topic came up among a table of paramedics and other first responders I was drinking with one night. Went down to the dmv and had the mark taken off my id the Monday after.
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No. There are too many people on this planet.