Showing posts with label life and death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life and death. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Why I will not check "organ donor" on my driver's license:

This makes chills run down my spine.

After being gravely injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident, Dunlap, 21, heard doctors pronounce him dead Nov. 19 at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Tex., but he was physically unable to react.

His family later approved having his organs harvested.

As family members paid their last respects, he moved his foot and hand.

So I won't offer to donate my organs -- like that guy, I might still need them -- but I do give blood regularly.

Because there's very little chance that they'll declare me brain dead and start carving me up while I'm sitting in the blood donation chair.

I'm pretty sure, anyway.