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-Organ donation is the process of giving authorization to healthcare providers to remove one or more of one's organs and transplant it to someone else who needs that kind of organ to live. In the overwhelming number of cases, this is done after someone's death if they have declared consent during lifetime, though certian organs (like a [one] kidney, a piece of the liver, and certain other organs and tissues) can be donated while still alive. This page will focus on posthum organ donation.
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+I'm a proud organ donor.
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+Organ donation is the process of giving authorization to healthcare providers to remove one or more of one's organs and transplant it to someone else who needs that kind of organ to live. In the overwhelming number of cases, this is done after someone's death if they have declared consent during lifetime, though certain organs (like a [one] kidney, a piece of the liver, and certain other organs and tissues) can be donated while still alive. This page will focus on posthum organ donation.
 Like a car, the human body is made of parts which are, in many respects, largely interchangeable. While the human body hasn't evolved to be modular, advances in medicine have made it possible to replace many parts in a functional and healthy state despite the difficulties. Humans die when one or more life-supporting parts have failed. However, in most cases many other parts of the body stay intact and would work just fine if the rest of the body wasn't, yknow, dead. Like after a car crash, the wreckage can be harvested for parts that are still intact and may be useful elsewhere. In fact, you'd be surprised how much of a human can still be useful to someone else.
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 And of course, those who really don't want to still have the option to opt out. If one, for any reason, decides that they don't like the idea of things being done with their body after death (besides getting liquified into ashes, I guess that's A-OK) they may opt out at any time for no cost either.
-====== Fear of Death ======
+====== Reasons Against ======
+===== Fear of Death =====
 Most arguments I see against organ donation typically revolves around some kind of fear of death, and the refusal to accept that one's life will at some point end. Most people I've talked with want to believe that, at any point in this, they either will or at least //might// be harvested when alive. Doctors might put in less effort, they might not be properly dead, maybe they'll just wake up randomly, why should brain death be irreversible... these kinds of things. They seem to think that as long as "they" exist in some meaningful form, even if just as skin and flesh, they're still them in some way and get very squeamish if someone proposes doing something with their body, even if they're so dead that the last thing that would be done with them is being burned to ashes in an oven; which they would do even if somehow their body got up from the stretcher and started walking around. They like seeing themselves alive, and just the thought of being dead is scary.
-====== Religion ======
+===== Religion =====
 The other reservation to organ donation I've seen is religiously motivated. Something about the human body is sacrosanct, and even though harvesting organs here to put them into another body there violates the sacredness of the human body. This is entirely feels-based and has no grounding in either reality OR the bible, neither of which would tell you that making the life of a living person better at the cost of a dead person's organs is in any way bad or an affront to god or his perfect creation. His creation obviously is not perfect, and god knows as much.
+===== Unsuitable Body =====
+One of the things that made me unsure for a long time was whether I even have anything healthy in me that could be useful. Well, it turns out that it is possible to transplant body tissue that you'd never even think of. Even if your heart sucks, and your lung sucks, and your liver and your kidneys suck, they can still use your retina. Many tissues can be transplanted in general and, even if an organ itself sucks, it is at least functional which is better than what the people on the organ donation waiting list have.
+====== Be An Organ Donor! ======
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+If I don't make it to something in my lifetime, maybe I can at least help someone else live a better life.
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+Becoming an Organ Donor is the easiest, fastest and cheapest way to make a life-changing impact on another person, available to anyone! In Germany, government buildings sometimes prepare flyers with a donor card, and these days citizens can sign up in the digital organ donation register via the internet. The best way is probably to just google and see the results. I already googled it for you, just click the link: [[https://www.google.com/search?q=organ%20donation|Google Search: Organ Donation]].