It’s been almost a week since millions of Filipinos celebrated the day of the dead, a good enough time as any to think about what you want done with your body when you’ve expired. I, for one, am reading up on organ donation in the Philippines. Besides being worm food, this seems to be the nearest thing to life after death.
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Registering for organ donation is actually easier than I thought; there’s only one thing you really need to do:
Tell your family.
If you’re married tell your wife, if you’re single tell your parents. Whether or not you’ve signed a donor card, your family will still have the last say on what happens to your body when you expire.
But a donor card does sound cool, so I’ve contacted the National Kidney and Transplant Institute and asked about whether we can make donor cards of our own. I haven’t gotten a reply yet, but an FF Organ Donor card doesn’t sound like such a bad idea.
Count me in. If I am gone then I do not need it. But someone does. When I go, all expenses should stop, no services, no nothing, usable parts should be handed out, the rest to science. Confidentiality preferred.
Keep us all updated on this project.
I would totally get an FF Organ Donor card!
This is one advocacy I'd whole-heartedly give myself to (pun intended).
But seriously, organ donation is the best thing you could do to your body after you're done with it.
Seeing as people like us have no hangups with worrying about the afterlife, funeral rituals and taboos, superstitions with death, etc. it should be an easier choice for us to do the practical thing.
This could be a good side-campaign to endorse.
Hmmm…so what makes us 'us' is not the atoms and cells but their exact specific arrangement. In the case of organ donation a part of us literally continues to live on even after we die. 🙂