Organ Donation
 

No excuse not to.

Good for Oregon, tops on the list....NY bottom 3.

http://www.donatelife.net/donante/DL...+Card+2009.pdf

Thanks Randall. Much needed,never heralded! I'm going to check this out,especially to find out which possible donors are not eligible due to health issues etc etc. Good job!

Seriously, everyone on here has a driver's license, no reason I can see save for some strange religious reason(if so ok)....they can take anything I have that is workable. Hello, you are dead.

"workable" being the operative word. Maybe "blood" diseases or diabetes would disqualify a person

It does, unfortunately. I'd be happy to donate otherwise.

Donate your organ

I plan on using it in the afterlife, sorry



:D

Your married now...

Excellent post... I have been signed up for years through driver's license program here in Louisiana. I advocate this to anyone who will let me bend their ear.

If everyone was donor, many thousands of lives would be saved each year. One of my friends here in Louisiana received kidney from 30 YO woman who perished in traffic accident in California several years ago. He is in his 70s now and enjoys good life and continues to work today.

...which is why I need it in the afterlife

i want all my parts to be placed under a pillow to see what the organ fairy brings.

One of the most important things I have done with my life is sign up for this. What a way to go out knowing that I might, just might, extend a life.

:D

Being diabetic does not automatically preclude a person from being able to donate organs at time of death. Diabetics can't donate organs while they're alive, as it's too stressful on the diabetic, but at death, organs that have not been badly damaged by the disease are perfectly useable. It depends on the type of diabetes and how long the person had been treated for it. In any event, a medical examiner would make that judgment at time of death.

Fun facts to know and tell- so yes, diabetics can check off organ donor on their licenses. I think the only ones that can't are those with cancer (though after several years in remission, the organs are considered safe to use) and those infected with HIV.

Thank you for that info! I didn't know for sure.

Thanks for this information about people with diabetes. Hopefully my organs are salvagable. I have donate listed on my Driver's License.

I'm not surprised- I love Googling when I don't know something, and this took some time to find an answer. There's lots on being a living organ donor, but not much on conditions for donating after death.

And it's quite possible it varies state to state. The one thing I am sure of- your doctor is not the one to ask, as he or she may not know (not surprising- disposing of dead body parts is not their job; keeping them alive is). Speaking of health needs and laws varying state to state-

I have hereditary hemochromatosis (HH), which is a genetic condition where my body stores too much iron. The only real treatment is donating blood. In NYS, that's easy; they'll happily take my blood at blood centers for free, so I get my system cleaned out and some cancer patient gets my platelets. or lovely iron-rich whole blood or whatever. But in other states, they won't let blood centers accept HH blood. For years they didn't know if it was genetic or an acquired condition so they erred on the side of caution and I think these states refuse to change their position because the hospitals make mucho $$ drawing blood from HH patients and don't want them to. They can't charge if they're going to use the blood, so they just throw it out so they can charge $100 and up for a ten-minute phlebotomy. And those who have insurance (like my dad) don't think twice about the fact that we have a blood shortage and it sucks that these greedy people would rather make $$ than lobby to change the law to save lives. They say if the Red Cross and the other organizations that won't take HH blood would change their policies, it would end the blood shortage in this country.

For years I used to give blood and platelets regulary. I'm O- and it's easy for me to give...About 10 years ago I started going to Asia/China 3-4 times a year and China is on their list of not allowing to donate if you have been there. Now, I'm not going to farms or rural areas with a potential for disease as I'm in Cities that are bigger than New York and cleaner too. It's just narrow mindedness by the Red Cross that they won't take my platelets or blood.