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Everything is on the table exept my eyeballs after I die. According to my last tests my insides are in amazing condition ... if someone needs something to stay alive or improve their life I would be happy to donate ... yay for them.
I have no idea how I feel about having someone else's body part in or attached to me because I have not crossed that bridge.
I agree with Vinny. Medicine is amazing.
11 years ago. Rating: 16 | |
I have a bone from another person in my spine. They were dead and didn't need it anymore. I guess I would take a hand but only if they could make it somewhat functional...otherwise I'd use a prosthetic hand. Mine are up for grabs when I die (I would stay away from my spine & hips though)
11 years ago. Rating: 16 | |
If you need you need, not exactly saving lives but if the glove fits and he keeps up the meds why not?
As long as it doesn't cost me!
11 years ago. Rating: 15 | |
(It did for me.)
If he was dead and it was Pee Wee Herman's hand, I'd feel terrible. I wouldn't be able to type that well on this site!
11 years ago. Rating: 14 | |
I would be very grateful, and also express this to the family given the opportunity, the same may be said for heart transplant recipients, liver, kidney etc. The person has no use for them any longer and the biggest gift they can give is that of life or an improved life to another, I take my hat off to all donors.A colleague at work tragically lost his 8 year old daughter in a car accident, he made the heartbreaking decision to have life support switched off, there are another 8 people that little one saved or helped in some way, her all too short life was not wasted.
11 years ago. Rating: 14 | |
I think this is amazing and looking at how far medicine has come in many way it is a miracle, but it will be very interesting to see if his body rejects the hand or not.
11 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
I cant imagine having someone elses hand. I would rather have no hand at all. Too creepy!.
11 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
I think this is amazing and looking at how far medicine has come in many way it is a miracle, but it will be very interesting to see if his body rejects the hand or not.
11 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
Years ago I watched the movie, "Hands of a Stranger", which I have written about here. A concert pianist is in a terrible accident and receives the hands of a convicted murderer who has been executed. The hands function completely, but are not coordinated to play the piano anymore. He goes mad, and uses his new hands to seek revenge on the man in whose cab he was riding when the accident occurred. The cab driver was blinded.
It is just a horrid concept.
My cousin has had two kidney transplants. An former friend's father had a heart transplant. I am an organ donor (hopefully the organs will be useful and healthy..like Fishlet's).
I would be incredibly thankful for "replacement parts" that might help me live a fuller life, if and when the time should come.
11 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
I too expect the hand would be really, really clean before attachment. Who knows, maybe that hand has saved thousands of lives, baked the most amazing deserts and held the leash of a wonderful dog for 12 years of walks.
I do not agree with donor organs of any kind. I would not accept a body part (no matter what part) from another person.
11 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
what if Einstein gave his organs to a homeless derelict, would this derelict become a scientist?? Or if pavoriti gave his eyes to a blind person then the blind person could sing?? LOL! This is killing me. HA!! Sure puts a gap in the stem cell research. :)
I would like to give everyone a big hand for thier comments and ideas,in this matter,
11 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
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There is also the case of A New Zealande who lost his hand, about 27 years ago. Two years after the surgery, the man had his new hand removed, having decided he could not live with the new limb, taken from a motorcyclist who died in a crash,!