Reply #14: That's a good thing you're doing, garybeck. [View All]

We really need more organ donors, and having your body help keep other people alive, or improve their quality of life? What could be better? Raising awareness of issue is a must, tho', because it's extremely hard for a family to think about it just after they're told they've lost a loved one.


I have signed donor cards, but here in Norway, those cards are only indicative of our wishes - it's still the family who decides. I haven't had the talk with my mother yet, as I had a severely difficult young adulthood, with several suicide attempts, and I am afraid that my mother will think that I am getting suicidal again if I start talking about donating my organs when I am dead. I am on the bone marrow donor list, I donate blood, and if I didn't have such difficult veins, I would be a plasma donor as well - the bio techs practically cry every time I donate blood because I have so many platelets, but can only donate from one vein.