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In reply to the discussion: Who here ISN'T an organ donor? [View all]riverbendviewgal
(4,396 posts)and my driver license says and I have another card on my bedroom bureau. My son knows I am one, my boyfriend and my friends and m doctor.
I figure I w won't be needing them after my last breathe.
My son contributed his eyes but we don't know if they were taken due to all the rad and chemo for being treated for brain tumor. but his neurosurgeon , who is one of the top ones in canada said his brain was given and divided to several institutions all over the world to study his tumor, Glio Blastma Multiforme. The worst one there is and the same one as Ted Kennedy's.
My son was 6', built like a lean hockey player, blond and blue eyed and healthy as a horse until he had seizures at work. 3 days later he was getting brain surgery. 18 months later he died. he was 26 and half years old.
THe healthy young people think nothing could ever happen to them. But it does happen, sadly. That is why I keep hoping you all get one payer health care some day.