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Yeah, but they aren’t going to like my liver.
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.
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.
I think so? I should check though.
Friends and family know to strip me down for parts as aggressively as possible.
Due to my own medical reasons, I'm not.
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.
No. IIRC, there's already a good supply of "no longer needed" organs in the country (the US, at least), the only problem is getting them where they're needed on time; I don't feel like anyone's going to lose their life if I don't opt-in, but there are plenty of examples of supposed-"donate for medicine" bodies or parts being used for things I don't agree with, like that time a man's mother's body was blown up with plastic explosives by the US Army after it was donated for medical research.
Edit: didn't even consider the fact that it's literally illegal for me to donate my organs (Bi), even if I wanted to.
Organ donation and body donation are two different things. If you donate organs, only the organs are used to put in other people. Body donation is less well regulated, and there's definitely some sketchy businesses involved, but if you go through a university or medical school, you'll be good.
It's also not illegal for you. Blood banks used to not accept blood from men who have sex with men, but that has been changed. Even at the time of that outdated article you linked, organs were fair game as seen in the correction at the bottom.
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?
No. There are too many people on this planet.