Best method to preserve organs for transplant

[TheTetrapod]

I'm ready to ctb this year, finally. I know when, where, and am looking at options as to how. SN with the appropriate meds to tranquilize, like benzos, seems like a good option for me, but I've always wanted to donate my organs. My dad is a heart, kidney, and liver recipient, and he actually received his new organs from a donor who, like I plan to, ctb himself. I want to be able to do what he did, and leave something good behind, if there's anything good to be left behind. But SN looks like it will damage organs. The one method I can think of, firearms, I have zero access to, especially legally. Thoughts?

 

[dontwakemeup]

That's very thoughtful of you to consider that. I think no matter what the method is, how will people know to come get you? They are only good for so long. Reminds me of the movie 3 lbs or 5 lbs with Will Smith.

 

[whiskeyblanket]

I am watching this thread, as I am also curious. My father was born with a rare autoimmune disorder that caused his body to attack his only kidney. While he was extremely lucky to receive a transplant after 6 months of being on the waiting list (I think I was 6 or 7), he spent the next 14ish years on anti rejection drugs that destroyed his body until his autoimmune disorder eventually re-emerged and destroyed the transplanted kidney. He died a slow and extremely painful death over the course of 15+ years as his body literally disintegrated (almost all of his bones were dust at the time of his death, and that's to say nothing of his other tissues). I begged him to let me give one of my kidneys in the last few years of his life, but he wouldn't let me go through the surgery. I've lived most of my life with survivors guilt and second-hand medical trauma from all this. I would like to finally give my kidneys to someone when I die. Honestly it's one of the things keeping me from catching the bus--I don't want my organs to go to waste.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

Assisted suicide in a hospital, for example in Swizzerland. You have to be anaesthetized like it is done prior to a normal surgery and than your organs can be harvested.

 

[JesiBel]

None except in a legal and assisted manner. In traumatic deaths (suicide, accidents..) no organ is useful.

Potential organ donors are people who die in intensive care units in a state of brain death.