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In reply to the discussion: Who here ISN'T an organ donor? [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)32. Condolences to you and your family
For the loss of your son.
My sister died of the same type of brain tumor in 1993. She lasted 14 months after diagnosis, mostly because her doctoral thesis subject had put her in contact with many neurosurgeons. At the time, most patients lasted less than 4 months after being diagnosed. She allowed the surgeons she knew to do experimental procedures which gave her many more months of functional life. They also took her brain for study. The irony was that her doctoral thesis on the study of the brain provided techniques that allowed more detail study of the pathology of her brain.
I like to think that her willingness to give her body and brain over to medical study helped people like your son and Teddy Kennedy to have more time.
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Once they made it a simple matter of saying "yes" when you renewed your driver's license...
hlthe2b
Feb 2013
#1
Yes, let's just deliberately obfuscate things that keep people from dying. Oy. (nt)
Posteritatis
Feb 2013
#37
I'm going to get flack for this, but I think people who agree to donate organs should be higher. . .
Travis_0004
Feb 2013
#8
I totally understand. Not everyone who is eligible is able. Which is why those of us who can need to
PeaceNikki
Feb 2013
#26
There have been cases where doctors have precipitated the death of a patient
Paul E Ester
Feb 2013
#43
Wow! Comments and posts like yours don't help encourage people to be doners and help save lives.
Auntie Bush
Feb 2013
#100
I am listed with Life Gift as a donor. We had a member of our group who was a donor and 75 people
Thinkingabout
Feb 2013
#62
I'm a donor. I think that non-donors (unless they're unable to donate for medical reasons) should be
WhollyHeretic
Feb 2013
#70
Wow that is some crazy crap you're spewing. First off I said there should be an exception for people
WhollyHeretic
Feb 2013
#122
my belief is that death is just a passing over and i will need my body and belongings in the next
loli phabay
Feb 2013
#83
different beliefs. no idea what their plan was mayby just that the soul passes over
loli phabay
Feb 2013
#85
You really believe your body is going to vanish from the earth when you die?
UnrepentantLiberal
Feb 2013
#86
That's another consequence of neoliberalism. Once people realize that somebody's making lots of
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#116
Those of us with diseases that would be life-threatening to the recipient(s)
dickthegrouch
Feb 2013
#91