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    TO REMEMBER ME

    The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function, and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped. When this happens, do not attempt to instill life into my body by the use of a machine….and don’t let this be called my death bed. Rather, let it be called my bed of life and take my body from it to help others lead fuller lives.

    Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby’s face, or love in the eyes of a woman.

    Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain.

    Give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wreckage of his own car so that he might live to see his grandchildren play.

    Give my kidneys to one who depends upon a machine to exist.

    Take my bones, every muscle, every nerve, every fiber in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk.

    Explore every corner of my brain, take my cells if necessary, and let them grow so that someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat, and a deaf girl will her the sound of the rain against her window.

    Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the four winds to help the flowers grow.

    If you must bury something let it be my faults, my weaknesses and all my prejudice against my fellow man.

    If, by chance, you do wish to remember me, do it with a kind word or deed to someone who needs you.

    If you do all that I have asked, I will live forever.



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    My last job was in organ donation, and I'm a big fan of this. After spending a lot of time with some of those people, I wonder if I'd have the kind of intestinal fortitude that a lot of people needing organs do.

    They're so damn POSITIVE all the time...

    I also have no idea how anyone can be anti-donation.

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    Thank you for posting this Rhi- I wish people would consider this more. Well, kymchoon, once you look at the situations that lead to organ donation, you can understand how families say "No." In fact, my friend worked at a major hospital and he told me many organs were kept from donation because the potential donors had never discussed their wishes with their families. Unfortunately when the day comes that the donor has died suddenly, the family is too grief-stricken to consider further matters.
    We have to respect each other's feelings and wishes.....so if you are a donor, talk to your family about it. They need to know it matters to you.

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    You're welcome, Maxine.. Glad you liked the post.

    When I was married to my ex hubby, some friends of ours had a baby who was born prematurely. Unfortunately, she was born WAY prematurely, and could not be saved. They made the decision, heartbreaking as it was, to take her off of life support. They also made the decision to donate her eyes to another premature child who had a very good chance of making it. It was their way of letting their daughter still "see the world" although she couldn't in it with them.

    I'm also an organ donor. They can have whatever's good enough to take by the time I check out. I don't need it with me where I'm going.

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    Awe Rhi You're so sweet!BTWCan I have Your Liver?JK

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    Max (can I call ya "Max", heh) - I understand why they say 'no', one of the last things I did before I left was to propose a national schools campaign to get the message out to kids when they're hitting driving age, in an attempt to get that discussion happening. But yes, when the family doesn't know the deceased's wishes, there's often that one knee-jerk moron who wants to say no 'just in case'.

    There's also issues involved with the way that people are asked sometimes. Personally, I'm an advocate of the Spanish model (not necessarily the assumed consent, although I personally support that too) where there is a designated, trained doctor on staff to deal with the ask. (There's other issues as well, but I won't get started on those or I'll be typing all day)

    However, the people that really torque me off are the ones who decide against donation before it ever gets to that point, mostly citing piss-poor reasons. If I hear one more person argue against donation based on religious reasons, I'm going to clock them. It's just an (incorrect) excuse, unless they're a member of a couple of the more minor ones (e.g. romani).

    My opinion - if you're not willing to donate, you should be barred from being a recipient as well. I should probably shut up now, as my ire is beginning to rise...

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