Hell yeah, friend. Live the rest of your life with joy, we appreciate your selflessness here. ❤❤❤

Sending you lots of love, brother.

Hope you get sufficient time for everything you still want to do

I'm so sorry to hear you have had to deal with this. Well done on still being so brave and selfless. Sending love and light and virtual hugs.

That's very generous of you. Sending love to you and your family. I wish you peace in your final days.

I'm so sorry for your profound loss. May her memory be a blessing.

I’m so sorry for your loss. I’m sure Jana was an amazing person.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Im very sorry for your loss. Becoming an organ donor is a very difficult decision to make and thanks to you and Jana, I am able to see out of my right eye again.

It's an unbelievably selfless thing you did. I'm profoundly sorry for your loss. Bless you and yours ❤❤

Very sorry for your loss. I love your outlook though, what a beautiful way to remember him. Hope you're doing better and wish you all the happiness in the world.

Rip. I got my sorry excuse of organs up for grabs after I'm doa. But, if they can help anyone for even a few days, I'd want my loved ones on this mortal coil for as long as possible.

Damn….❤️‍🔥

That is exactly what happened to my father as well♥️ if anyone received navy blue cornea transplants from MI in 2013, I hope you have perfect vision

@@kl3186corneas aren't the part with the color

My cousin also had cystic fibrosis and had a double lung transplant just before covid. I'm so glad she made it. We hadn't seen each other since we were teens and I finally got to go visit her this past year. She's improving all the time and we are all glad to still have her with us. 🙂

@@kendalbrenneman that’s pretty much exactly what happened with mine! I was going to be in his area on vacation when he told me that we could meet up. He ended up canceling because he got notified about the double lung that was available and he had to go right away for surgery. He felt bad having to cancel but I was thrilled! That has been the best reason I’ve ever gotten for someone to break plans with me and the fact that he’s now thriving it’s even better.

Oh my goodness Thank you for sharing So happy for you all!!!

I’m so happy your cousin is doing well, CF is so difficult to live with and my childhood best friend lost her battle with it. I hope your cousin continues to not only survive but thrive in this world.

​@@CherryRedBanshee Thank you, me too! I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. My cousin is doing well, thank goodness. She has been very careful. She recently got news that someone in her neighbourhood who had gotten new lungs around the same time as she did recently passed away, so it's a good reminder to keep up her precautions.

Thank you for sharing. I wish you wouldn't have been in that situation, but we do feel with you.

Thank you❤

Thank you for sharing. I am sorry for your loss and hope the grieving process gets a bit tolerable. You and your daughter are in my thoughts.

As someone whose life was saved by an organ transplant, any waste of a viable organ is sickening to me since I know how precious they are. Although I found, as usual, other parts of the show funny, that clip was revolting.

So sorry for your loss. 😢❤ As a former medical laboratory technician, I agree the dog scene was horrifying.

Thank you for commenting and sharing your experience as a medical student! My husband and I have both filled out the paperwork to have our bodies donated to the medical school in our city. I love learning and love the idea that, even in death, I can still be a part of advancing knowledge to the betterment of medical training and care. Now I'm going to look back over the paperwork to make sure the Wake Forest School of Medicine will be the actual recipient of my corpse!

@@mariekeithbleuste8691 thank you for making that choice! I'm sure future Wake Forest students will be appreciative of your gift!

I'm hoping it's ok to ask this if not, just tell me it's inappropriate. Have you ever had a cadaver that were missing organs?

@@nyxskids yep! one day we were trying to find the gallbladder on one lady and all we could find was the clips they leave behind after they do a gallbladder removal surgery. it's fairly common.

@@samwarren2850 cool thanks! I'm looking to sign my body over to the local teaching hospital/university and I don't have a gallbladder funny enough. It's good to know missing that won't keep me from donating.

jesus yeah. that was incredible.

That hit way too fast. One moment he's making jokes 2 min later I'm crying.

​@Toonox Me too. But it was an easy transition. I was already near tears laughing at the previous joke about the teeth, and they were released with the emotional impact of that clip with the heart recipient..😂😭

Yeah once she pulled out that teddy bear I was crying

That moment got me, too. Absolutely incredible. Also the fact that humans as a species have figured out how to take organs from one body and put them in another body while retaining their original function is truly remarkable. The doctors and surgeons who have dedicated their careers to performing these operations and saving lives have got to be some of the most compassionate people alive.

Your father sounds like an amazing man ❤ Also a good point about not getting the body back for some time. My friend's mom's body was kept for almost 2 years and she didn't realize that was a possibility, she felt like it delayed her grief process so people should consider that.

Technically only 331.9 million members of the human race's decline.

Ja no bullshit

*the decline of North America

this is dumb

​@@TigSuEurope is getting shit aswell, but definitely not as fast as murica

Those roles sound hilarious in a list like this! Thank you for your work, though. We as a whole race of people need to know how to handle tough situations before they occur to prevent stupid mistakes being made or regretful things being said.

The real backbone of Grey's Anatomy right here.

“The haunting memories of lost love. May I? Lights? Our eyes met across the crowded hat store. I, a customer, and she a coquettish haberdasher. Oh, I pursued and she withdrew, then she pursued and I withdrew, and so we danced. I burned for her, much like the burning during urination that I would experience soon afterwards.” Kramer, Seinfeld.

​@@GreenForce82Gonorrhea!

@@GreenForce82 Yup, it was exactly like that. :D

Stories like this make me smile. I work with two transplant programs on the West Coast, and the waiting lists are heartbreaking to see.

Thats amazing! Thank you for the good you are putting into the world!

You are wonderful! Best wishes and a fast recovery for you and your friend

Best of luck to both of you!! If you post a gofundme I’ll gladly donate.

You're amazing for doing that and I will be crossing all my appendages that things go perfectly for both of you

That’s great, I’m glad to hear your brother is doing well!! But they definitely needed to make sure you weren’t being coerced just because you are his family. You’d be shocked at the amount of parents who have second children just for the purpose to save their first sick child, it’s actually genuinely disgusting behavior.

​@@acrollieyes, and it's also a good example of how important we regard bodily autonomy except when it comes to pregnant women. Can't make me do anything with my body to save a life bc it's my body my choice, but then say oh unless that "life" is a fetus depending on your body, then all of a sudden you don't get bodily autonomy. Ridiculous.

@@PinkSakuraBunnie Brilliant point!

Yay!!!❤

And now I'm crying! Just knowing the recipients can show you how a loved one lives on through them is beautiful amd comforting in some way.

This is heartwarming. Thanks for sharing.

Wow. I'm on a waiting list and I'm not sure whether to send news or not if and when an organ (heart) turns up. I'll have to ask. As a donor, I would be so happy to hear back from a recipient. I was/am a donor but unfortunately am now in need of a heart. All we can say is talk about organ donation. It's seems so obviously evident to have a donor's card on you if ever anything happens to you. But as he says - It's too late once in the hospital. Talk about it while it's time. It may be a "tabou" subject in the USA, but here in Europe it's quite natural to tell your friends and family that you are an organ donor.

My uncle received a liver from a donor in 2019 and I think about their family often. I wish I could thank them. My little cousin gets to have her father in her life for longer thanks to that donor.

We never knew the name of the man that died so that my dad could have a new healthy lung. It gave him several more years of life. I would tell his family their loved one’s gift gave my dad the second chance he needed to develop a better relationship with his kids and arrive at a sort of redemption as a result. I’m very thankful for that gift today, and I send that feeling to the family whenever I think about it.

Just curious, and this may be a silly question, but how did she help people regain sight 3 times if we only have 2 eyes? Was it her eyes themselves or something else?

thank you and your wife for donating, as a heart recipient, you can’t imagine how grateful we are. ♥️

@@MisterChubz The eye can be used for two purposes upon donation, corneal transplant and sclera (the white part) replacement. A careful practitioner can like utilize a single donation for both purposes.

Sorry for your loss 😔 My uncle died in 2019 of lung cancer after being a chronic smoker for many years, and my dad (his next of kin) was contacted by a donor agency. Idk if any other parts of my uncle’s body were good enough, but as far as I’m aware, his corneas were good enough to be used to help others.

My birthday is March 22nd and I am an organ donor, I also work in the medical field as a C-MA and I'm currently in college (again) getting my RN license/degree. I'll be thinking of her when I celebrate my birthday 💕 She made a selfless decision to donate, I bet she was a wonderful woman.

Thats so jesus. What a dude. Love that guy.

My driving instructor told us his wife signed up and they told him her body was unfit do to an STD didn’t tell us which one, but thats how he found out he had it. Not the same story but kind of interesting

Corneas didn't "make 3 people see". Whole eyes can't be transplanted. Sorry dear but your teacher was uninformed.

@@katiekane5247 Partial corneas can be. You're the uninformed one.

My 23 year old son has an autoimmune disease that will eventually require a liver transplant. I worry so much he won’t get one on time. Thank you for signing up to be a donor.

​@@rebeccamouse9294I hope he does. ❤😊

The Netherlands just started an opt-out system for organ donation as well, because organ donation there was around 10% prior to the implementation of this policy.

You're talking about 'presumed consent' and those countries that employ that consider citizens' bodies as a national treasure.

What are they doing right? I’m curious what the US could do to make our more effective.

Spain actually has fewer donors per death than the U.S. and a lower transplant rate than the U.S. that’s because they (and no country) actually relies on the Opt-Out law and always follow family decision. The U.S. has opt-in and relies on the registered donor’s decision rather than family choice…unless the possible donor isn’t registered. No nation has higher rates than the U.S.

Tell that to China. Nobody is better than China. Finding out why is horrifying though

❤❤❤❤❤ 🧸

Best of luck! ♥️

Hope you are recovering well~☆

May you have a full anf speedy renewal of body, mind and spirit. May you be able to exercise as much free will as possible. May those tending to you be strengthened as well. ❤

Hope you're doing well, and that they deliver that new heart to you in something other than a scotch-taped styrofoam cooler, in a hospital free of starving golden retrievers!

Best of luck my guy. I got my heart transplant in 2019. I played video games the whole time when I was waiting in the hospital. I hope you have something to “get lost” in while you wait. Sending positive vibes.

If you’ve read about the characteristics that come with some transplants, it would prove an interesting life to observe.

And then you discovered that your nose started growing until you resembled a hybrid human / toucan ?!?!?!?

John's heart is destined to be eaten by a golden lab

💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

@@roarmalf Priceless! 🤣🤣🤣

No, you have a heart.

There's so much under the surface isn't there, beyond just the flesh of our bodies after we're gone. I hope you always remain soft regardless of all you see 💔

Being soft isn't a thing to be ashamed of. In fact, I admire that you were able to retain that sympathy despite your line of work.

They have a point. The doctor in the video did act exactly like a vulture.

My mom was a nurse and I could never do what she and you do. Thank you for having a stronger constitution than I.

Right?! They deserve all the awards. Brilliant

My partner looked into volunteering a kidney to a stranger in need several years ago, we stopped once figuring out how much it would cost us

I took myself off the donor list because of the incompetence of the system.

Th8s was why I took myself off the list as well

Whaaaat? You have to pay to become a donor, that's ridiculous! John Oliver should've mentioned this too. I think the system should be changed to register to opt out instead of opting in...we should all be automatically donors.

@@blackbird7842 This thread is about people who donate one of their kidneys while they are still alive so a stranger in need can live another ten years. Making it the automatic default may raise a few polite objections.

You mean people can ride ambulances and receive emergency care without going into crippling debt? Must be nice.

The ride is standard in every country with a functioning healthcare system. Edit: to the people telling me "America" doesn't have a functioning healthcare system. 1) I know. 2) Do you guys realize the USA aren't the only country in America, in the internet or in the world?

@@NavaSDMB key term being "functioning healthcare system"

@@NavaSDMB America can be accused of a great many things, but having a *functioning healthcare system* is NOT one of them. 😔

​@@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460ours is functioning if you can afford the Tolls required to access the express lane level of care. Otherwise it's the lane your employer decided your worth or the only public roads allowed for retired workers and workers who don't make enough money to get health care privately.

I am so sorry! And as an organ recipient, who was also not told they could multicast, ( in fact it was discouraged), your story breaks my heart. I am also so angry that some doctors decision basically ruined a big part of your life! It took me a LOOON time to research and "fight the system". I was gaslit by nephrologist, and dialysis centers who would have loved to keep me sick, suffering on dialysis forever. Because I was their cash cow. So now that I barely scraped by, and listed out of state, and yes I did get a kidney transplant, I now advocate, and basically tell all dialysis patients the TRUTH! I hand out brochures that I made, and I give them information, on how to Geta transplant out of state. I do if for the ethics and principal of the matter. I do it forepeople like your dad, who came so close to receiving a new heart!. And I do it as a FU to the very broken allocation system.

Wow.

See my comment above

My anatomy class was the same. It was thoroughly emphasized that we should even talk about the cadavers as if we knew them in life/they were a loved one.

Kinesiology is my new word for the day.

I'm about to head back to school and in an anatomy course, there is an option for a cadaver lab. I want to take it because I feel it can add a lot to my understanding; but at the same time, I feel like I would start viewing the human body differently and lose some empathy.

@@TheDancerMacabrethink of it this way, or, I’ll start by asking if you have been to a funeral before, especially one with an open casket. Some people haven’t, less common in some areas than others from my understanding. My grandpa owned a funeral home, and my buddy is going into a program to learn the trade. 1) cool people to do that, guaranteed job security, and a funeral director/mortuary staff that excels at their job provides a certain comfort to a family that’s absolutely important during that time. Not related at all to your comment, but my grandpa was really good at the “people” side of the business, and idk, seems like they can be this rock of guidance during a rough time that’s typically a bit confusing and stressful for those still living. Anyway, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. I’m assuming you have the ability to differentiate between real/hallucenation, and this is just a different skill set of that, in a way. We, as humans, are technically an amalgam of different parts, liquids, chemicals, all that whatnot. But, there’s a certain aspect beyond that in living beings. Humans have consciences, but even other animals are more than the sum of their parts. I’m sure your brain will be able to filter that information in real-time exactly like you’d need it to. I’d be surprised if learning about how human beings are constructed and out of what will make you view things in a cold, harsh light you’ve never seen them before. I’d say go for it, and I’m sure if it makes you uncomfortable you can always bail. You definitely won’t get this opportunity to experience this ever again, unless some real weird things happen to happen for ya later in life…..like murder….

@@TheDancerMacabre it's definitely a fine line (though im speaking not from experience, but from conversations with MANY relatives who are physicians). i think ultimately it can actually enhance your capability for empathy and human care/connection; just takes a lot of consistent mental re-affirming as to what you're doing it for, and respect for those who literally gave themselves for the future of medicine and humanity

Half a heart? So some of the ventricles or something?

@@VioletEmerald yep, exactly.

samesies! 2nd time i cried during LWT and both were this year, our beaked boy and his team are on a roll!

I'm surprised they didn't make reference to the special video they made for Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi to promote organ donation. It's a very moving music video starting his cousin Peter Capaldi and it brings me to tears everytime.

@@diannworrell106 Ohhhh, my goodness. Through a transfusion? I am surprised and not surprised simultaneously. You're right that getting put on multiple lists seems to violate the principles designed to keep the organ-sharing process fair - before my own transplants, I distinctly recall the public debate over allocation. A lot of people believed organs should go to the sickest patients instead of the closest/easiest patients (to the extent that both types of patients can even be compared). I will admit that part of me sees the situation as needlessly hopeless regardless of how donor organs are allocated - the entire conversation is moot when those donor organs get misplaced or lost.

Yep. I work in transplant research at a center with a fantastic program. Our patients get transplanted within 2-4 weeks usually. We take organs, transplant anybody.

that’s so heartbreaking. so sorry that happened to you

I'm so sorry ❤

@FrogFriend3379 thank you

@jbeta4948 thank you. I'm OK, but these stories are just heartbreaking in general because it's so many people's reality

Can the organs even be donated once the person passes away? Sorry about your loss, that sounds very insulting and cruel of them to do. Vultures.

Exactly!!!

It's not just software, though. It requires the delivery service to have the specific infrastructure.

They don't want to, they never would.

Seems like way too much of a liability for a company like Amazon. You don't want just anyone handling organ donations. They may, however, consider helping to create a better software tracking system or at the very least be used as a model for a new one.

You could almost call it... a *prime* opportunity. (I'll go away now.)

My mom was a kidney transplant recipient and my cousin John Seffen was the youngest person ever in the 80’s and the first child to ever receive a partial liver transplant via a partial-liver from an adult donor. His multiple transplant journey is well documented. I was my mom’s caretaker and med-partner. Thank you for the recognition. People have no idea how many sacrifices we make for our loved ones who are chronically ill ❤

I once looked into a university body farm for forensic studies in my state. Unfortunately, I live too far so my family would have to pay for transportation. I'm considering setting up a special account for this despite having very little resources. It seems to be the best option to ensure that I do not leave my family with any financial burden, and I am comfortable knowing what will happen.

​@@dwanashawnsame. Donation is costly

Didn't the family that donated grandma's body in this method learn that grandma's body was used to test tank ammunition?

How are corpses used in calamity training? Wouldn't mannequins do?

​@@HaldaneSmithmaybe for canine training, I guess

I'm a retired attorney from Oregon. I had a client dying of cancer and she wanted to go the way of assisted suicide, but her doctor only gave her days to live. I contacted the teaching hospital and specifically put in her will that her body would go there for research. That is one way people can ensure their body is used for science. I did all the work pro bono, BTW, as my last gift to her, her last wish.

​@@rabbit251if you put a specific place in your will, will your body absolutely go there? After watching this I want to be sure

@@Ford_prefect_42brad2751 gave an answer to your question in the main comments involving contacting universities

​@@Ford_prefect_42 nope

​@jjcarter3567 ppl don't really have a say. Some ppl found out their loved one's bodies were being used as targets for tge military to practice on. Anyone willing to donate their body is ONLY making that choice because of being misinformed

Yes! Please do this! I am a kidney recipient! I cant begin to tell you how bad the transport system is for organ donation!! You could be the first one with a govt. contract that does this. I would be happy to be a partner with you and teach you all-out organ procurement, UNOS, OPTN, and allocation. Jon Oliver is correct when he said that the only good thing Trump did was to make these new laws for organ procurement. We needed these changes over 40 years ago. Its just that insurance companies wanted to keep people sick,and make a lot of money, also dialysis companies started taking over, and milking Medicare. If you could do something positive like supply chain anf GPS tracking, it could be so simple. I saw my new kidney being cleaned by the surgeon, before I was put under. It was pink and looked good. But it was just in ice in a bucket with some clamps on the arteries and veins. So basically if you can transport ice, then that's all you need. Hearts need no more than 6 hours outside the body, and they are critical, tier 1 A, on the waitlist. Livers, you have to be very sick to be moved up on the wait list. But they come 5x faster than kidneys. Same as lungs and pancreas. A kidney pancreas priority is next highest priority, and last is kidney, because a person can live on dialysis as a bandaid measure. Also the CIT or Cold Ischemic Time outside a body is up to 48 hours on a kidney before it isn't viable any more. I hope I gave you some direction of how to help you with supply chain. I stilldont know why every organ doesn't have a gps system? There should be a "find my organ app" formal gifts of life!

Yeah I’m way past wanting the current economic system to regulate anything in anyway. That just blatantly doesn’t work. It’s crazy too because capitalism doesn’t have a requirement in the definition to be so unregulated that the consumer suffers massively compared to the corporations, yet here we are.

No way, MaxPalaro! I am your fan! When you will come to Brazil???

Indeed, This is when everything is made commercial and people keep voting to pay less taxes, taxes which should help create a functional society.

Oh yeah. The public government has never been caught doing shady shit

Organ donation would be more popular if some of the millions of dollars each donation nets, were donated to the family of the donor, instead of only going to organ brokers. 🤷‍♂️

This comment made me cry in a good way.

Omg do you know how to make sure your pet does that? I’m very pro donating bodies as was my sister who owned my cat before me and I think we’d both love to help the next generation of veterinarians

I have never heard of this - where can we find out more about donating pets?

@@juliathompson101Get in contact with a specific university that has a vet program and call and ask. You can do the same thing with your own body. For example if you get in contact with KU or UW’s “willed body program” then you can ensure your body goes to them specifically if you die in the right conditions rather than just to general medical research. You can fill out paperwork “willing” it to them specifically.

Good girl!! 😉

If you believe in an afterlife, that person is waiting to meet you.

@@adde9506 kek

The transplant process is a real struggle that most people won't understand. It's takes a strong mind to go through it. Just having to go through LVAD makes you a boss. I had a patient the other day with a transplanted heart that had hit the 25 yr mark. They're getting really good at managing transplanted hearts now.

Plot Twist: Thats lunatic BS.

wtf... 14mil???

Thank you for being kind 💚

We received letters from the Lions Eye Bank. They never give one person both, two people get the gift of sight. We have donated two sons. One in 2000 and another in 2012. The letters we received from bone grafts for spines (eliminating pain) and organ recipients, make healing much easier, especially when they are allowed and encouraged to send a thank letter. In memory of Kyle and Gary M. Hendel. They live on

@@gnomielove7232 I am so sorry for your profound loss. My heart goes out to you. Yes, they do live on while helping others to live better lives.❤️

I am so sorry for your loss

I’m so sorry for your loss. She deserved better then what she was given. I hope you find healing & peace in your soul 💕✨

I'm so upset that she passed she deserved better than to be treated that way they ought to be ashamed talking to her like that and not helping her out. I'm so sorry for your loss and everyone else that knew her she seems like she was a sharp kind lady in need of compassion and real help.

Sorry for your loss. It happened to my friend from high school. He was high up on the list but sicker people kept cutting him in line and eventually he got too sick and died too It sucks the way the world is if our friends were rich they would have been able to have just bought an organ and paid for the surgery all at once in South America.

I would like to know more about Tonya's story, If you don't mind. I feel I can relate to her. I too am a female about her age who fought like hell to get my transplant! I was ready and prepared to talk to congress. I waited fora kidney transplant for almost 9 years here in CA. I never got the call. Well, I did get a call, but they couldn't find a pilot, nor an airplane. So it wasn't offered to me. I somehow scratched and clawed my way to get registered for a kidney in AZ. Thats who called me for a kidney within 1 year. So now I advocate for other people who are still suffering on dialysis, and are uninformed as how to multicast in another state. Because I know how hard it is. Its brutal. I am so deeply sorry for your friend. I wish I could have met her.

Thank you!!

Especially with liver donations. You can be a living donor and your liver should recover completely with time as it is the only organ that is completely capable of regeneration. You don't need motorcyclists to kiss asphalt, healthy living people can step up and save the lives of those who need a liver

I feel for your loss and sympathise as seeing someone fade away while waiting every day for a life saving all to me made would be heart breaking. Though I would also say that asking for donors when they are expected to do it for free with little compensation in a country that their out of pocket costs should something go wrong after the donation essentially devalues the person doing the donation. A thumbs up and a thank you would not make up for their potential loss of income or other complications received from their charitable act. I also know that when money is involved it invites the worst society has to offer, the problem is governments are not great at regulation as money always gets in the way and makes it a all or nothing equation. Yet if proper regulation was to be put into place and there was full transparency for legal compensation of to live donors, then the list would suddenly shrink as the wealthy patients would afford to go though the process and the poorer patients would have less people to compete with for the the more traditional organ donations. And yes to prevent self abuse it would be easy to include in the process a mental health check of the people signing up for compensated donations (at the paying patients expense) to ensure that the person providing the organ is doing so from a stable environment for the right reasons and are not being forced to do it via underhanded or even criminal reasons. The TLDR: Compensating for live organ donations would work with proper regulation and yes they would raise the usual questions of a two tired society (but that would exist regardless) the large influx of organs would also protect the lives of those who are on waiting lists and this is more then reason enough to make it legal with proper regulation.

Organ donation should be opt out not opt in.

​@@jackthompson6296hell no. That's beyond unethical. One step away from making Soylent Green a documentary

​@@jackthompson6296some countries have this

Yeah that is sometimes the biggest worry for families

That is something that a funeral home can usually handle well with careful embalming and restorative work.

​@@Tibbles11While true that's what they care most about, it's also kinda frustrating for me that people care about that more than the life of someone else. While it would be nice for the closure can't you say goodbye and then they harvest from the body and you don't need to look at him again and that's okay?

This video is good except for that it needed to tell people how to withdraw from this system. I'm a pretty isolated person and not at all confident that my wishes would be followed through properly, so I actually would love some advice on how to withdraw from this entirely.

If you don't actively sign up to have your body donated for science, you never enter this system, so you don't have to withdraw. However I don't think there are currently good options to control what your body is being used for, should you decide to donate it. I guess the best you can do is research the exact company you want to donate your body to thoroughly and make sure they only use it for things you would be ok with @@kitcoffey7194

​@@kitcoffey7194 Lol why dont you bury your money with you while you sre at it. In most civilized nation you sre automatically a donor and can choose to op out, in the us you are alredy out better to bury yourself with everything you have rather that give somethign to someone in need.

and you only got said pamphlet afterwards? this says about everything. but I suppose in the US extensive research is necessary to see how all those school children, teachers and staff are killed daily by mass shootings.

I may be a heartless dickhead but “ballistic science”, if It is what I think it can be very important as well and I don’t really see an issue with doing that to a donor. I certainly wouldn’t have a problem with that, nor would I have an issue with my body being in that weird museum thing.

Yeah there were some nice surprises in the comedy this time. Loved the empty box of teeth, and the "passive aggressive" comment about the disembodied heads lol

I did Niagara falls in flood season.

I hope that your wife and you are able to navigate the transplant wait list. Blessings to her for all her contributions in the education, especially orchestra. She’s touched thousands of lives in that career. Blessings to you both. ❤

Wishing you the best of luck!

Please thank her for bringing the beauty of music to kids like I was. One of my fondest memories of orchestra was how our bow strings would move up and down together. It gave me the feeling of being a part of a beautiful flowing wheat field and reminded me how everyone literally has a part to play in our unity. ❤️

My dad has PKDII and received a kidney transplant 20 years ago. He's doing great. I hope your wife gets her new shiny kidney!!

I have poly cystic kidneys and im only 16 (it is genetic my mom has it)

Yeah, but my country is based off of individual autonomy, separate from the government. So we would basically have to change our entire constitution.

It's not as streamlined as that, but in the US you are asked explicitly if you would like to be an organ donor when registering to vote and getting an ID or driver's license, and they send you home with a pamphlet on it regardless of your answer. You do have to explicitly tell someone 'no' to not be included in the program. I don't know if laziness is necessarily the problem here. For context, I am an organ donor, but I currently live pretty close to a very rural area. The licensing department requires clerks to ask about organ donation. Moreso, with the problems that exist within our medical system, with doctor's directly ignoring and abusing patients, people choose to opt out of donation due to a fear that doctors will not try to save them in a medical emergency, and instead choose to let them die to harvest their organs. There have been people debunking this, stating that doctors do not have access to those records, but I think the fear still persists given how many people have medical horror stories of doctors taking negligence to the point of appearing malicious. These problems are very interconnected, and the roots would need to be addressed before people begin to trust the medical system enough to allow for mass signups for organ donation.

@@BebbaDubbsyou must not live in the US then. Lots of us (women only, of course) are denied bodily autonomy.

That decision was nothing less than an unethical appropriation of people's bodies without their consent.

⁠@@LittleLionRawrhow so? They are fully within their legal rights to revoke their status as a donor.

That gift was so thoughtful, it was an act of genius. Now Kate's mother can listen to her daughter's heart whenever she wants. A very important part of her daughter is still alive.

I'm a recipient in wait for a heart. I think that is a very "gore" idea to give the sound of your/her heart ! Each and every one to his own, but I would hate to have a teddy bear with that sound.

​@@user-oe1mb9hu9iI think the original purpose of those bears was to record the mother's heartbeat and place in the crib to soothe tetchy babies, so actual mom could get some much needed sleep every now and then.

I'm gonna touch you lil bro

​@@beavercontrol1743the fuck?

My brother went in for outpatient surgery at the age of three. I remember missing days worth of school (I was in the second grade) and still not having any answers as to why he hadn’t woken up. Three days after he went under (and three days of no explanation from several doctors) a woman approached my parents asking what they’d decided to do with his organs, and when they responded with horrified confusion she just said, “The doctor hasn’t talked to you yet?” and then walked away without another word. That’s how my mom and dad found out their three-year-old son wasn’t coming home. I don’t envy that job but I sure as hell know that isn’t the way to go about doing it.

@lawrencetchen - It is clear that you know just how complex this topic is. My experience was at the bedside as a pediatric ICU nurse who cared for many, many donors and recipients as well as with our local OPO. As a matter of policy, I did not discuss organ transplantation with donor families unless they spontaneously and specifically brought it up, at which point I advised them that it was an option and that there would be someone arriving soon to speak to them. There is so much more to this topic beyond the ranting of John Oliver done for comedic effect. His ignorance of the process is profound.

​@@wickedcabinboyI see you here all over these comments and you clearly have some kind of specific opinion... Just post it on main so we can see what you're getting at??

It tracks though. Of course they get organs faster then less wealthy people, we're talking about people who look at medical costs as pocket change and would laugh if someone were to show them their own medical bill. This country was built for the people and restructured for the wealthy. When a poor person dies due to a failing medical system no one bats an eye, when a rich person dies the country grinds to a halt and boards are formed to ensure no rich life is ever lost that way again. If ever there is an immortality drug made I guarantee it will cost no less than a million dollars.

Capitalism 🤘

Good thing there's a brain on the Organ Procurement Organisation placard. Which means there's still hope for those people.

​@@Robbie_SIgnorance \m/

Hey Steve Jobs wasn't born as rich as he became! He just abused the talents of others and had them worked hellish hours to constantly keep up with a vision that eventually forced his own company to downsize him! I'm sure he made good use of his new liver when he died from cancer thinking he could heal cancer better than actual doctors!

Agreed. This just confirms why President Trump needs to be re-elected. He was a brilliant President and is rescuing this country. We need him back to finish the mission of making America great again. Completely agree with you.

It’s a problem inherent to capitalism (similar to why husbands no longer pay money to the father of the bride), that any payment of money creates perverse incentives, much like how John Oliver has talked in his Mobile Homes episode about how landlords would raise rent, and tell tenants to donate their blood in order to pay their rent. In this case, it would probably be someone with a bunch of children framing the death of one child in order to get the organ money to pay to feed the other children.

Our system, like all it Iran’s are non-profit, altruistic donation…but the families do receive years of aftercare counseling and support

You know why it takes less 3 months 👀

@@MrMlbfan6 Prisoners

@@adamjoyce3126 They have less than we do

Thanks for another reminder that other countries are doing the John Oliver story topic way better than America ever could.

But you have to live under Bolsonaro (of whom, ironically enough, we know from this same show). Worst game of "Would You Rather...

same here! LOL

Me too 😅

Of course! He's always buying something crazy like creepy dolls or the jock strap from the Gladiator movie!😅

I'm glad I wasn't the only one convinced that they'd actually gone and done that. Also rather glad they didn't, as it seems an odd reason to spend budget money when it could be saved for another year-end explosion or an informational video advert about a chronic disease using big name actors. I would not be very happy knowing they'd spent money on human teeth, even at such a comparitively low cost.

I literally mouthed _Nooo_ when he grabbed the box, I was in denial, I'm not sure if I thought it was going to be empty or not. I hoped it was a joke, but you can never quite know with John Oliver.

Oliver wins awards year after year and you would think others would try to copy him.

Republikkkans are the ones who made the RACIST method of blacks not getting a fair place on the kidney waiting list...

We love him for it.

Coincidentally, the German version of LWT did an episode on organ donations just a couple of weeks ago.

​@@vl2809I'm sure John Oliver is just sitting around watching German and Dutch youtube channels to find out what he wants to cover next!

No KKKonservatives, who hate the idea of "federal government" but LOVE to have their Orange Clown in charge of one third of it, would agree to that.

I don't know if Oregon still has it, but when you got drivers' license they had a box you could check that would make you a donor. So if you died with your ID your body would be used for transplants only. Every state should have such a law. I checked because I had a HS teacher that got a kidney donation and it literally saved his life. I think everyone would agree to donate because they literally know someone who lived or someone who died.

@@rabbit251 I think we should have an option for organ donation only. I would hate to have my body in a museum.

​@@rabbit251Same in VA. I thought all states did this.

Except we hate letting the Federal government do anything because we're insane.

Well, he's British, not a monster. :-)

I was at work while listening to do this. Was not expecting to be in tears at work.

John Oliver hates it when people say this, but it's true. Despite his protestations that he's nothing more than a court jester, what he is doing is JOURNALISM. It's funny, but it's also hard news like few outlets deliver.

Sure, except it's a weekly show with a completely different format, but other than that...

@@myronholy2999 dude at least remove the share id if you're gonna spam links everywhere. it's freakin amateur hour with these bots.

Unfortunately sometimes Mr. Oliver doesn't get it. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/jJ5omZ17iG-dsZs.htmlsi=6ZnaIms9P9ap2zkX&t=1033 Organs that came from genetically similar people require less immune suppressing drugs... So the insensitive white man was right, as the best match for Tonya Ingram would have been another person of mixed African & European Ancestry... This is already a big national problem for African Americans who need a bone marrow transplant if there isn't a relative who is a close match. And yes, it is painful to donate, as a late friend of mine donated bone marrow...

That's the main point and focus, on organ and body donation abuses. They're absolutely horrible. Laws that allows marketing bodies and bones, to other than for transplant patients and medical research or medical schools, and even for sideshows in a hotel, performing autopsies in a Marriott hotel for whoever that pays $500 to watch, and not even licenced doctors. Selling them for a sideshow tourist attraction museum, featuring entire human skeletons and spines, skulls, all bones, in whatever ways, including online human skull and other bones sales. Ex: Close to $4, 000 for a human spine As if making it all more important of economical value than government gives to living human beings, in what see in the prices. Poor people who do it with dead loved ones,, just to be able to have them pay for their cremations. Government contractors organizations that specialize in getting the bodies donated around the country, and how they're mistreated and casually handled, including leaving three human heads at an employees desk in vengeance because they filed a complaint about what seeing. Allowed desecrations of the dead for exclusively commercial purposes. This is a must watch episode of John Oliver.

A lot of the stories over the last couple of years have been covered already by Wendover Productions. He's even used at least one clip from one of his videos. I'm not throwing shade, I'm just saying that there are people that are talking about the issues, but they don't necessarily have the same audience as John Oliver. The more people talking about the problems out there, the more people can start to address them.

My husband was lucky with me. We discovered I was a universal kidney donor and could donate to almost anyone. I just donated my kidney to my husband in July after he just got on the list in May and debating on donating part of my liver to someone in a few years too. It’s a great feeling to donate but weird too. I jokey go and talk to his belly and say “how’s my girl doing?” 😂

@@silverpurkat That's awesome! One of the other babies with the same disease my son has got an altruistic donation from someone who donated her kidney to her brother already, so she's a 2x donor!

What I don't understand is why more hospitals don't do live liver donations. The hospital I work with that does liver transplants only work with cadaveric organs that are purchased from the OPO.

I’m so sorry you went through this.

I'm just I'm talking I don't have any real knowledge but maybe they were referring to the cost of the hospital stay and the surgeon fees not the actual skin donation

Her skin helped another child. That's what matters.

It cost your niece her life. No cost is higher. I am very sorry for your loss.

What you're describing is orgam donation which is regulated and can't be sell. Thank to your niece a live has been greatly improved or even saved. In contrast there's body donation for research & edu.. which can be sold. Why there's a price? Many medical companies that produce hospital equipment, medicine, body implant etc.. Require body part for their research and product development, they usually purchase or lease it (yes there's body part lease). It does help advance medicine and create life saving tools. Unfortunately there's assh.. Who made it for profit industry. For me those legitimate pharma company even if they are for profit should be given the body for research for free as the donor intended