I just read on a bc fb site that I should have the organ donor thingie on my driver's licence taken off. It makes sense but I had never thought about it.

I was discussing this with a friend recently and she advised me she is "donating my brain if they can find it". She has listed with the Brain Foundation. Apparently, like general donations, it depends on how and when one dies but with the brain donation the time factor is not so critical. (Sorry, I am yet to look into it). Her specific reason for the donation is for research into illnesses such as Alzheimer's. I have been assured by nursing friends that the organ/brain donors are handled with extreme care as if it was a regular surgical procedure and the body can still be in an open coffin if that is what one wants to have. Me ? Use what they can and burn the rest then chuck my ashes out in the ocean. I figure that if there is no life after death who needs to keep the bits, especially when the thing has failed us, eh ? It may be a sad subject to some but best one's family knows one's wishes.

As a lifelong lover of hospital dramas I'd love to have my mortal remains used in a teaching setting!

I was thinking about the same, @SoldierCrab .... but was hesitant to say it!! It seems the 'overflow' from the 'donations to medical science' often end up in the Body Farms, anyway ..... which let's face it - will help others in their fight for justice from many villains ..... WIN/WIN! I am not too worried about how my mortal body looks after death ... cos I will not be there! ;)

@BlackWidow - you sound just like my Dad who was a farmer, felled trees with an axe at age 9, was in the Military Police during the war and of course dealt with death and dying everyday - this is farm life. He always said, 'When I'm gone, I'm gone - celebrate my life!' I have donated my body to science and have the same attitude as you, 'use what you can and burn the rest'. To those left behind, the grieving must be respected, but like my Dad, could you celebrate my life? Patti J I love your post too!

That reminds me of when I used to work in the Uni Accounts Dept. We would get the bills from the undertakers listing the bodies of the people they had transported to the medical building by name. It was a bit disconcerting as Adelaide's not that big a place. Eventually, they decided to use ID numbers instead as a privacy measure.@kmakm, Meeeeeeee! (that's a mutant cow moo)

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Blossom1961
Member
7 years ago
@AllyJay @Sister 😂 I laughed out loud just as my 30yr old daughter walked in. She is concerned at my sense of humour. I'm not sure if you ladies or the chemo warped me but I fear I may have already been warped.
kmakm
Member
7 years ago
@Sister :D
Sister
Member
7 years ago
Maybe it could be a game of "name what's missing"?
AllyJay
Member
7 years ago
I also thought of donating my body for medical students to practice on. Then I thought it through... Instructor..."Okay show me the tonsils and adenoids...none there? Okay show me the appendix...not there...okay show me the uterus and ovaries...I'm guessing not there...well then, lets look at the breasts....Oh for heavens sake...she has a mouth at one end, a rectum on the other and bugger all in between"!!!
Kiwi_Angel
Member
7 years ago
I got a phone call when I had just started chemo as they wanted my blood type - told them “u don’t want my blood at the moment”. The person I spoke to had a look and apparently I can start donating again 5 years after I finish tamoxifen. So if I’m alive and healthy I can start donating again when I’m approximately 60.
Sister
Member
7 years ago
That reminds me of when I used to work in the Uni Accounts Dept. We would get the bills from the undertakers listing the bodies of the people they had transported to the medical building by name. It was a bit disconcerting as Adelaide's not that big a place. Eventually, they decided to use ID numbers instead as a privacy measure.

@kmakm, Meeeeeeee! (that's a mutant cow moo)
Afraser
Member
7 years ago
Yes I'm aware of that so to some extent it may depend on how "interesting" you are!
kmakm
Member
7 years ago
I lived in the UK for more than six months when they had an outbreak of CJD, more commonly known as Mad Cow Disease. You can get it from eating meat, and it can incubate for 40 years, so I am not allowed to give blood or donate organs anyway.

Now that I know I have a mutated gene, my husband and I like to joke about how he's married to a mutant mad cow... ;)
kmakm
Member
7 years ago
@Afraser You may have problems giving yourself away. I do read or hear on the radio from time to time that it's such a popular thing to do the organisations that use bodies have more than they can use! If you do look into it, let me know what you find out.
Afraser
Member
7 years ago
I am contemplating trying to
leave my body for scientific research, might as well try and do some good with it after I quit the premises!