Donate or not

[JenBKR]

I'm a donor also. It's on my driver's license

[moosmom]

Absolutely!! I've been a donor for years on my driver's license. I'm also going to look into donating my body to the UConn Medical School. Whatever I can do to help someone once I'm gone is okay in my book!

[Samantha Puppy]

It's noted that I am a donor on my license as well. They can take anything from me so long as it isn't visible from the outside - which means that my entire body cannot and willnot be donated to science. Just whatever organ may match someone in need.

[moosmom]

I'm going to be cremated, so it doesn't matter what I look like. Besides, once I reach the "human bridge" I'll be whole and healthy again anyway.

[slick]

Yes, I'm a donor too and I think it is the most selfless thing we can do for each other. In BC it's different. We don't carry around a card...but we must register through the BC Transplant Society. In the event of my death, my family members will make sure my wishes are carried out.

[Karen]

I am an organ donor - whatever they want, I figure even myopic, astigmatic eyesight is better than none at all!

[anna_66]

I am also a donor and it is noted on my drivers license. I'm going to be cremated so whatever they need they can take.

[kuhio98]

I also have it noted on my driver's license that I am an organ donor and I have a "Living Will" that states I am an organ donor and that I do not want to be kept alive on machines if I am an in a coma.

[poofy]

I want to be a doner, will put it on my license next year.. I dont care of the take the whole hull, im going to a better place..woopie..whats left is nothing to me, but might help others..

[Laura's Babies]

I am too and it is on my DL also....

Let me telll you this.. One of the saddest day we had at the hospital where Eddie is, was when a young Coast Guard guy had been hit by a car. The halls and waiting room filled with his Coast Guard friends, openly standing around crying. I think there was little hope for the young man. The morning after he was brought in, they were all called into a meeting room and we knew what they meant. These grown young men and women in uniform came out of the room bawling like babies so we knew he had died. They stay the rest of the day and we all wondered why so I asked one of them. This young man had donated his organs and his friends would not leave him unitl they were done and his body could be taken away..

On the other side of the story. There was a man and his wife there as long as we had been there, found out they had been there since Febuary. Their son got some kind of virus at the age of 14 and it attacked his heart. He had to have a heart transplant or he would die so he got a new heart.. (NOT the Coast Guards guys, this happened before that guy had his accident) But this boy is alive today because someone made that decision to donate their organs. I am sure he has had a birthday by now that he wouldn't have had without a new heart and is now 15 years old.

We would see people running throught the halls up there all the time with ice coolers with "Human Organ" written on it. There are a LOT of lives saved today due to donations like that. My one regret in my (middle) son's death is that no one asked me if I was willing to donate his organs. I thought about it after we had buried him but, I KNOW I would have felt his death improved someone elses life and been proud of that. (Back in the early 80's organ donation was not that widely talked about or important)

[emily_the_spoiled]

Having worked in a hospital and with the transplant teams, my driver's license is definitely checked for donation!! I have seen many wonderful things happen because of the generiousity of strangers.

I have also made it very clear to all my friends and family that is what I want.