• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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      6 months ago

      Good news, we have a match for you!

      Somewhat good news, your new lungs are little dinged up and have mileage on them.

      Bad news, we’re still charging you full price for these lungs. Enjoy your medical debt.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    6 months ago

    I am not. HOWEVER, it is simply because my spouse will be the one to make the decision. Not that I don’t trust doctors, but it’s a decision my spouse and I talked about.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Your spouse or next of kin is always the one making that decision. Doctors don’t transplant organs unless the family is on board with the decision, regardless of what you put on your license.

  • Elise@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    I’m set to donate my body to science. Maybe I even get to be a skeleton in a class room or sum 💀

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    6 months ago

    My spouse and I are registered to donate our bodies to a medical college. If we can advance medicine in even a small way, it is still a move to better life and health.

  • Trent@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Yes. I’d like to donate my body to science too, but I want to see if there’s a way to do it non-profit. I’m not interested in helping make someone rich.

  • NightoftheLemmy@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    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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      6 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.

  • NeedingvsGetting@lemmy.world
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    I’m registered to donate, they won’t take them unless I get an expensive genetic test. My brother just passed away, and they wouldn’t let him donate anything because we had an aunt a couple of generations ago who had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (a prion disease that causes dementia)

  • kakes@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Not sure if I’m completely registered, but any time I’ve been asked I check Yes, and I have it checked on my health card.

    Like you said: “why not?” Not like I’ll be using them any more at that point.