I really am ok with all of it - eyes, skin, intestines, veins, everything. Again, some of it may seem odd at first but I'll be done with all of it. Even if they couldn't hide pretty much everything for a proper funeral (which I'm not particularly concerned with) it's still worth someone's life to me. I'll be dead, it's ok if I don't look my best less

In the state where I live, they give you a form on which you can check limitations. I basically said take it all except skin, eyes, or corneas. I have a family friend who is a mortician, and he knows from experience that there's really no good way to take those parts, you always end up looking a mess. I'd like to have an open casket, unless I was in a bad accident, and then in that case they probably wouldn't want my skin, eye, or corneas anyway. less

I agree with Avant-garde to some degree. In my case it is not that I disapprove of people as much as it is that I would be upset if my organs went to somebody who I think the world would be a whole lot better without. This includes child molesters, rapists and murderers, bullies, essentially anybody who repeatedly harms their fellow human beings either intentionally or because they just don't give a fuck about anybody other than themselves. I don't expect anybody to be able to distinguish most of these people from the rest of society, I just think it would be a shame if my body parts helped to further their behavior in any way. less

That's ludicrous! 99.9% of organs go to deserving - but very sick people. Your chances of helping a worthwhile human being far exceed the irrational fear of helping a child molester or some other social monster.

Honestly where do such an irrational fears come from? less

Just a note, I did not mean to offend anybody by my comment that the woman in the ad needs a meal. I am aware that some people who are naturally thin are very self conscious about their weight and appearance. I just find it disgusting that the media uses people who look like they could have just come off of a season of survivor to use as sex symbols. There is a REASON eating disorders are so common. I have nothing against naturally thin people, I find them as beautiful as anybody else, but people who are naturally thin rarely look like they are dying of starvation, they are just thin.

Second, people do fucked up things when they are desperate and my organs do not need to be involved in any of them. They can have them when I am done with them.

Third, and this might sound really fucked up but it really freaks me out that my blood/organs could end up in some prison psychos body. Or some other horrible excuse for a human being. That being said, I am aware I don't really have the option to choose; so maybe from now on I will wish on every shooting star I see, that when I am done with them they will go to somebody who truly deserves them. less

Girl with Fire, sweetie, I understand your fears. But, fortunately most of them are urban myths.

Most people in prison DO NOT qualify for the Organ Recipient Program. It's unbelievable what can disqualify someone, due to the cost and the lack of organs. For instance, alcoholics often are not included. Sometimes, if they have been sober for a period of time, they may get a liver, but NO alcoholic is going to get a second one if they destroy the first donor organ. And, most won't even get as far as getting ONE organ. I'm not judging alcoholics (some people very close to me have this disease and I don't love them any less) It's just that the committees chose people who they deem will live long enough, will not do anything to destroy the organ (for instance, people with chronic diseases, that would quickly destroy a donor organ are not going to get one)

Prisoners in prison are NOT getting donor organs. It's TOO expensive and the committees who chose who gets organs is usually going to choose a young person, usually someone who has a lot going for them, usually parents of young children or children are put first. It is not a "first come first serve" program. Every hospital which does organ transplants have slightly different rules, but not every one who needs an organ is even going to get on the list. And those who are the most sick, and deemed to be the most "deserving" will get them first.

And, they don't take them before you are "done" with them. Yes, some people give a relative a kidney or part of a liver, BUT those are not normal donations which fall under the same rules as the organ donor program. Those are interfamily donations, and the rules are much different. If you are on the organ donor list, NO ONE will ask you for a single thing while you are alive.

There are people who VOLUNTEER to give blood and bone marrow, and are on lists. This is NOT the organ donor program.It's a different program. And completely voluntary. less

I know all of this. I actually know quite a bit about the organ donor program. At least in Canada. I just feel more comfortable not being on a list. If somebody close to me needed a kidney or part of my liver, even my bone marrow I would donate it to them. I would at the very least be tested to see if I am compatible. I have even promised a friend that I would carry a child for her if she needed somebody to do so because she is having chronic cervical, uterine and fallopian issues. less

That's ludicrous! 99.9% of organs go to deserving - but very sick people. Your chances of helping a worthwhile human being far exceed the irrational fear of helping a child molester or some other social monster.

Honestly where do such an irrational fears come from? less

Girl with Fire, sweetie, I understand your fears. But, fortunately most of them are urban myths.

Most people in prison DO NOT qualify for the Organ Recipient Program. It's unbelievable what can disqualify someone, due to the cost and the lack of organs. For instance, alcoholics often are not included. Sometimes, if they have been sober for a period of time, they may get a liver, but NO alcoholic is going to get a second one if they destroy the first donor organ. And, most won't even get as far as getting ONE organ. I'm not judging alcoholics (some people very close to me have this disease and I don't love them any less) It's just that the committees chose people who they deem will live long enough, will not do anything to destroy the organ (for instance, people with chronic diseases, that would quickly destroy a donor organ are not going to get one)

Prisoners in prison are NOT getting donor organs. It's TOO expensive and the committees who chose who gets organs is usually going to choose a young person, usually someone who has a lot going for them, usually parents of young children or children are put first. It is not a "first come first serve" program. Every hospital which does organ transplants have slightly different rules, but not every one who needs an organ is even going to get on the list. And those who are the most sick, and deemed to be the most "deserving" will get them first.

And, they don't take them before you are "done" with them. Yes, some people give a relative a kidney or part of a liver, BUT those are not normal donations which fall under the same rules as the organ donor program. Those are interfamily donations, and the rules are much different. If you are on the organ donor list, NO ONE will ask you for a single thing while you are alive.

There are people who VOLUNTEER to give blood and bone marrow, and are on lists. This is NOT the organ donor program.It's a different program. And completely voluntary. less

I agree with Avant-garde to some degree. In my case it is not that I disapprove of people as much as it is that I would be upset if my organs went to somebody who I think the world would be a whole lot better without. This includes child molesters, rapists and murderers, bullies, essentially anybody who repeatedly harms their fellow human beings either intentionally or because they just don't give a fuck about anybody other than themselves. I don't expect anybody to be able to distinguish most of these people from the rest of society, I just think it would be a shame if my body parts helped to further their behavior in any way. less

I'm not an organ donor...YET. I want to be, but I have a pretty severe (and irrational, I know!!) fear that if I become an organ donor and I'm in an extremely bad accident, the doctors will put in a little less effort trying to save me. Easier to pronounce me dead and harvest my organs than keep fighting to save my life, which would be a bit more appropriate if everything was going to waste anyway.

It's just a matter of time before I get over this fear and register, though. Wish it were sooner rather than later. less

Yeah, maybe. But the thought of being dead is unpleasant also. One really doesn't have a choice about things like that.

IMO, anyway, my organs rotting in the ground, or being burned up when they could be saving lives is MUCH more unpleasant.

I'm a nurse, I've seen people die while on organ waiting lists. I would do any thing in my power not to be responsible for someone dying who had a chance. Once you are dead, who cares what happens to the remains? If they can do a living person good, they are welcome to them. less