Yes. I check the organ donor box when I renew my driver's license. If I'm in an accident then I don't need 'em anymore. Let someone else use 'em.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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I think so? I should check though.
Friends and family know to strip me down for parts as aggressively as possible.
Not yet. As soon as some people in my country get to know I am registered, I am dead meat - worth my weight in gold. It’s dangerous.
People are downvoting you because they are probably from a Western country and haven't heard of this before.
To them I advise they Google "gangs hunting organ donors".
This absolutely happens in multiple countries.
I'm sorry you face this threat.
Due to my own medical reasons, I'm not.
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No. Ineligible.
No. I used to do that. I stopped doing that after I registered for be the match and had gangs subsequently stalk and harass me. I had people threatening to shoot me over the past several years, which may or may not be tied to registering, but many of their threats were motivated by my blood type. I’m the universal blood type donor. I’ve had several people, throughout my life, make comments about having me killed for my organs since I’m everybody’s type. I know it was just people being cruel, but I really feel more at ease by not being a listed organ donor.
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Yeah, but they aren’t going to like my liver.
No.
- It's opt-in in my country.
- I fear that medical personnel will give up on me way too easily and early if they know that I am a donor. Or that it's even rooted in malicious intent.
No. This world made me selfish.
My ID says I am, but I'm not registered anywhere else. Why did I have my ID say it? Because I felt like it that day when I renewed it. That's literally all there was to it.
Real talk though, I almost don't think I should be donating my organs. Why should the hospital get for free what they're going to charge a family hundreds of thousands of dollars for?
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No. There are too many people on this planet.