This will buttress your faith in humanity in these dire times. It’s a sad video but also an uplifting one.
What you see here took place in Meridian, Idaho about ten days ago, when a 53-year-old man was moved from the intensive care unit to the operating theater, where he was taken off life support and died. His organs were then removed and used to help other people. When his gurney was wheeled to the operating theater, the staff of St. Luke’s Meridian Hospital silently lined the fourth-floor hallway, as they always do, to pay respect to the man’s gift and to support his family.
Please make sure you’ve filled out your organ-donation form on your driver’s license, as I have, or put it in your “living will”. You’re not going to need those organs when you’re dead, but somebody else will.
h/t: Su
I was very moved by this ceremony. It does represent a bright light in dark times.
Very moving. For anyone not already an organ donor: the rest does not have to be silence, despite protests of the Dane. Parts of you can live on.
It’s a form of immortality worth wanting.
Already done. 😀
My fear is that my organs would end up inside a Repugnican. I would not rest in peace.
I’m sorry, but I think this was poorly judged for this thread.
I think our host has already covered this.
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/kristel-clayville-who-refuses-to-donate-her-organs-out-of-social-justice-responds-to-criticism/
How very moving — I’ve been a prospective organ donor since 1976, when it became available on California’s drivers’ licenses, and was on Be the Match for bone marrow donation until I aged out.
I am leaving my body to the Baylor College of Medicine
Some things are trite just because they’re so true. In this case it’s the phrase, “restores one’s faith in humanity.”
What a great gesture, I hope this is adopted by all hospitals.
My 14 year old daughter was the recipient of an organ donation 9 years ago — a liver. I wish I could do something to honor her donor like this everyday. She was a beautiful 4 year old girl.
Thanks for this. It hurt to watch as this hit too close to home for me, but very moving.
Organ donation should be registered on an opt-out basis rather than opt-in. If you have no interest in the subject and don’t want to think about it, why not assume you’re ok with it rather than the other way around? There really is no logical reason to hang onto your body parts once you’re dead… and there are lives which might be saved by letting them go.
I agree.
Thanks to Prof. Coyne for this post!