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July 27, 2006
Organs
It took me a while to have the guts to sign over my organs (post life).
But I thought, if ever there was a sure way to be re-incarnated, donating organs is it. I like that I can give a gift of life in my death. And that someone might see through my eyes, love from my heart and breath through my lungs - selfishly, my cells, my self, may continue on.
I've had to get over the concept that I would somehow be conscious that my organs are being cut out when I'm dead and that I wouldn't quite be dead or I could come back to life... yeah, well, I've been assured that they don't remove them until you are definitely dead. And if I'm still conscious - like a soul overlooking my body, will I really feel the pain? Instead I would be excited by the gift. Yes?
Surely I'll be focused on some other aspects of being dead - like Oh my god, I'm dead! This is what it's like!
If you don't want to go to the grave as a beautiful whole dead thing:
Donate Your Organs
Due to a restructuring of WA's Organ Registration method, a huge number of organ donars have dropped off the list. So numbers are down.
Peace!
[current mood] RTR FM 92.1 playing from a little radio by a rainy window
Posted by nat at July 27, 2006 10:56 AM
Comments
Thank you for that point of view! I filled out the donation form some time ago, too, thinking, heck, when I´m dead I don´t care anymore about my organs and might be of help. But the way you described it with "someone might see through my eyes, love from my heart and breath through my lungs" makes it kind of a beautiful way to go!
Posted by: Iris at July 27, 2006 12:18 PM
Hey Nat,
Good on you for drawing attention to this. My partner has cystic fibrosis, as do many of our mutual friends, a few of whom have had lung transplants and are living life to the full. They are just a handful of the people who need transplants of all kinds, but for us, it's a very real thing. This major surgery may one day become a reality for our household so it's an issue very close to my heart (which will one day, be donated). Donors are incredibly hard to find, and to match. Please support this, as they say 'Don't take your organs to heaven... heaven knows we need them here'!
xx
Posted by: mands at July 27, 2006 9:00 PM
