my mom's cousin. fantastic man. helped me alot thru life. sadly, he couldnt kick the habit of smoking. he smoked from the hospital of his triple bypass..he heart failed, and he was hooked up to some portable heart assist machine..(pumps in series?)
well, now he quit smoking. he was on a heart donor recipient list. it looked dire. you literally have to almost die to get a good position on that list. he moved to houston to wait. at a doc's visit, he passed out right there in the exam room. he was rushed to ER, and was about to die. he got put to the top of the list, and immediately got a heart. the heart was dog-eared for another person. he is still unconscious, but alive. my family was stoked that he got a heart. then i got thinking about the poor person that had the heart snatched from him.
despite my abused organs, they are free for the taking if i should die properly for harvesting. take it, i assume i'm done with them. kinda nice knowing my package is not 100% dead. maybe a nice lady takes my kidney to paris or something
why doenst everyone like donation? is it a religious thing? what % of the population opts for donation?