<p>Saw a heart warming thread about a heart transplant for a friend of a poster</p>
<p>I want to remind everyone about becoming an organ donor</p>
<p>My D just got her permit, and happily signed up to be a donor, it gave us a good chance to talk about lots of related issues</p>
<p>And heaven forbid, but if something horrid happened, a little something good might come out of it</p>
<p>I’m an organ donor. I would also be interested in donating my body to science. I’ve read different things on whether a body can be donated to science after organ or tissue donation. So much of the time organs are determined to be unfit for donation, anyway. I know that many people are sqeamish about the prospect of whole-body donation, but it’s something that has never bothered me very much, and it is so important. Bodies are not only used by medical students but also to develop safer, more effective, or less invasive surgical methods or to research disease and early diagnosis or hundreds of other things. I’d rather have future doctors learning and practicing on my dead body than on either some kind of substitute, manufactured “body” or on an actual patient.</p>