If you want to be an organ donor, don't watch "Meaning of Life".
I have that movie but I can't recall anything concerning organ donors...
Wow, that must have been extremely difficult for your mom. I know doctors sometimes joke about horrible things as a way to deal with death they face every day but I doubt that's the case here.
Most of the time, after the organ and tissue companies come through, the body is left in scraps.
I have that movie but I can't recall anything concerning organ donors...
I'm not. My dad was. When he died, the doctors tried to just take all of his organs that might be used in transplants, regardless of whether they were going to be useful or not. They were just going to figure it out after they got them out. My mom overheard the doctors jovially joking about this. She stopped them from taking everything, and I think she let them take his heart because they knew it was healthy and it could be used for a transplant.
Wow, that must have been extremely difficult for your mom. I know doctors sometimes joke about horrible things as a way to deal with death they face every day but I doubt that's the case here.
Most of the time, after the organ and tissue companies come through, the body is left in scraps.
Are you serious? The family receives a heap of flesh? How long can it take to sow the body up? They do that after an autopsy, right? So why can't they do that for someone who has just donated his organs so other people can live?