Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.
I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.
...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.
i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive
A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.
It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to let people know how important it is to become an organ donor.
When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a person's natural tendency is to reject that organ.
There can be legal conflicts over whether registering intent is enough to qualify you as an organ donor or whether a doctor must still ask your family's permission.
Signing up to be an organ donor should be at least as easy as downloading a song to your iPhone.
A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.
Write a living will. And become an organ donor!
I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
