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Comment on How come not all people are organ donors? It's not like they will need them where ever they go.

In my experience, some of the people that I have met that aren’t organ donors are afraid that the hospitals and doctors will do less to save you if you’re in an accident so that they can use all of your organs to “save” many more people. It’s dumb, but I’ve met a scary amount of folks who believe that.

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lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s not entirely unjustified.

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk

People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life …

A surgeon made an incision in her chest and sawed through her breastbone.

That’s when the doctors discovered her heart was beating. She appeared to be breathing. They were slicing into Ms. Hawkins while she was alive.

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- YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  There’s also the chance you’ll get sold to be blown up
  
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  - ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Why do they paywall all the fun stuff behind being dead
    
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  - fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I consent to this
    
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  - I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    That part doesn’t matter one single shit to me. So what? I’d be dead. It doesn’t matter what happens to my body when I’m dead.
    
    For that matter, why should anyone give a shit? Society has this really illogical view on corpses. We place way too much reverence on empty husks of meat. They are dead. Dead. The person who was there is gone. Their body is not them.
    
    And if the person had some dying wish to be buried or cremated or anything like that, you don’t have to honor it. That’s the thing about respecting the wishes of dead people; they are dead, their opinion matters as much as the opinion of a brick. You don’t honor their memory by spending thousands of dollars to put an empty husk of meat pumped full of chemicals into a gaudy box and bury it in the ground next to hundreds of other boxes filled with empty meat husks. You honor their memory by remembering them. That’s it.
    
    Have a funeral. Have a remembrance party. Mourn them with stories, with tears, and with an abundance of drink and unhealthy comfort food. The body does not need to be a part of it.
    
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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  On the other hand, they would have let her die if she was not a donor.
  
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- Poxlox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s crazy to see validated conspiracy right there out the NYT. As it reads, seems these procurement companies need to stop influencing doctors.
  
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treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I don’t want to provide any profit incentive for my death. Same reason life insurance makes me uncomfortable as well. It’s not rational.

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