Should You Or Should You Not Donate.......

[Deleted member 20280]

Personally for me they can do what they want tbh. I view my body as a vehicle carrying the real me, the one inside of the shell that I see my body as. I have never looked on my physical being a temple.

If another human can benefit from anything I have left to offer then they can have whatever they need. Let's face it I am not going to need it once I am dead.

 

[illusionist]

Anonymous.....my daughter has cornea transplants......you are right..it was a scary time! Someone gave her a special gift which has not only benefited her, but allowed my two grandchildren to be brought up with a mother who can enjoy everything that this person gave her.

Donating your organs not only brings life to the receiver, but gives a more fulfilled life to those who are close to them......how many people die out there and leave behind children who are motherless or fatherless?.....with an organ donation not only their lives are saved but their children can go onto leading a normal life with their parent......such a true waste.

 

[Wanting a life]

This is such a personal issue that there are certainly no rights or wrongs. One thing that would benefit others with ptsd, though, is to consider donating at least the brain. I plan to do this. If you've seen Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor speak on TED or elsewhere, it's clear that it's definitely worthwhile to donate especially when "something is off." If they can learn any little thing from my brain that could help someone else with similar issues - that would be so worthwhile! I doubt I can post the link to the TED talk, but you can google it pretty easily.

 

[mtnbibliophile]

My body is so screwed up from illness that I don't think anyone would want any of my organs. However, I hope by the time I die that somebody has begun to study the brains of people who were physically abused as children to see if there are significant physiological changes. I was hit in the head repeatedly as a child. (I'm sure I'm not the only one in this group for whom that is true.) I wonder sometimes if I'm suffering from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) as a result, the way football players and boxers who get hit in the head do. It would explain the increasing level of anger and aggression that I feel. So, I'll donate my body to science and hope that my brain will be autopsied as part of a study of CTE in adults abused as children.