I have to go off on a rant about organ donation.

[davsand]

61. I am an organ donor and I have been very outspoken with my family about it.

If I'm at the point where the docs don't think I'm viable any more, then, by all means, give away anything I have left that is still gonna be of use to somebody. I can't think of any better memorial for anyone than to be remembered for the gift of corneas, kidneys, heart, lungs, skin, bone--the list goes on...

I had a family member who suffered a heart attack that severely damaged his heart. His only options were a transplant or a coffin. He got lucky because a donor match came up in time. Harold was a retired fire chief (he'd been Fire Chief at an Air Force Base) as well as the local volunteer fire dept. Chief. As a result of his transplant, he and his wife enjoyed 17 more years together. He lived long enough to see one of his his grand daughters graduate from college and start to work in medical research (ironically enough in transplant technology) and the other in pre-law.

How could anybody deny that kind of gift?



Laura