Discussion Has anyone considered living kidney or liver donation before CTB?

[cornflowerblue]

I'm thinking about donating some organs before I go. Due to the need for privacy to prevent CTB being stopped, my organs likely won't be usable after death because too much time will pass. Has anyone else thought about this or actually done it?

Living Organ Donation | organdonor.gov

You can donate a kidney, a piece of your liver, and certain other organs and tissues while alive. About 6,500 living donation transplants take place each year. Unlike deceased donors, a living donor can decide who to donate their organ to, helping a recipient get an organ transplant faster. Most...

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[Soul]

I offered half my liver to someone but since we weren't related they assumed I was doing it for pay, which is illegal.

Whole-body donation seems to be less picky than organ donation, so some of us may want to consider it.

https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/useful-contacts-for-body-disposal.16260/

 

[cornflowerblue]

I offered half my liver to someone but since we weren't related they assumed I was doing it for pay, which is illegal.

Whole-body donation seems to be less picky than organ donation, so some of us may want to consider it.

https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/useful-contacts-for-body-disposal.16260/

Did this happen at the transplant hospital? I was reading through the brochures and it sounds like you can give to a random person.

 

[Soul]

Did this happen at the transplant hospital? I was reading through the brochures and it sounds like you can give to a random person.

The hospital said no. It may be another of those things that's treated differently depending where you are, but if the offer had been totally random it would have been less of a problem. I had a particular recipient in mind, and that looked too much like I was being paid for my part.

 

[cornflowerblue]

The hospital said no. It may be another of those things that's treated differently depending where you are, but if the offer had been totally random it would have been less of a problem. I had a particular recipient in mind, and that looked too much like I was being paid for my part.

That's understandable. I would just do the totally random program. I'm looking into options now. I know part of the enrollment process is a mental health check and to give reasons, so that alone may disqualify me.