Being an odd type just means that there other odd types out there desperate for your organs. Sadly, they won't take mine anymore.
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Ginger - Dec 17, 2007 7:03:20 am PST #8659 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Steph L. - Dec 17, 2007 7:04:27 am PST #8660 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Ginger, you'd be surprised at what you can still donate -- bone and tendons, for example.
Ginger - Dec 17, 2007 7:08:28 am PST #8661 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Yeah, that 's right. I'm pretty sure corneas are okay too, since they don't really have a blood supply. I guess I'll just leave it up to the med school.
eta: I sent you a strange e-mail to explain a strange package, Teppy.
Trudy Booth - Dec 17, 2007 7:09:26 am PST #8662 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
(Okay, no. I don't care what music is played at my funeral, b/c it's for the loved ones, not for me. I won't be there. They can pick.)
I figure I'll pick and if they just can't stand it they can change things and I won't haunt them.
Well, not for that.
My Father wants to be cremated and raked into a particular sandtrap he could never get out of. We've all said "uh, okay".
Hil R. - Dec 17, 2007 7:10:45 am PST #8663 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Several years ago, on Rosh Hashanah, the rabbi at my parents' synagogue gave a talk on the Jewish view of organ donation. Because if you ask the average Jewish layperson, a pretty good number will tell you that Jewish law forbids organ donation. But it's actually a whole lot more nuanced than that, so that there are certain things that are allowed and others that aren't, and the talk was clarifying a bunch of that, giving different rabbis' opinions on it, and handing out organ donor cards (after noting that, in NJ, checking off the boxes on the back of your driver's license isn't legally binding at all -- it's just noting a preference.)
(Essentially, it gets down to that Jews are allowed to donate organs if it will directly save someone's life. So, donating a heart or a kidney or something for a transplant is OK. Donating the same heart or kidney for research is not. Donating something like eyes that'll help someone but not directly save their life is not. It's a balance between the laws about not desecrating the body with the law that it's OK to violate any other law in order to save a life.)
Trudy Booth - Dec 17, 2007 7:14:40 am PST #8664 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Do the rules apply to accepting non-life-saving organs too?
(I'll bet that is not a simple answer either)
Connie Neil - Dec 17, 2007 7:18:48 am PST #8665 of 10002
brillig
I need to get a Recycle symbol tatooed on myself somewhere.
Hil R. - Dec 17, 2007 7:19:02 am PST #8666 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Do the rules apply to accepting non-life-saving organs too?
Huh. I have no idea.
Trudy Booth - Dec 17, 2007 7:22:09 am PST #8667 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Huh. I have no idea.
SLACKER RABBI!!!!!
Hil R. - Dec 17, 2007 7:25:16 am PST #8668 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hee.
Oooh. I just re-compiled my family tree, with a bunch more data I've added to the file. I'm now up to nearly 700 people total, with 378 descendants of the most-distant known ancestor on my dad's side. (This 378 include, so far, six people named Jakob Nathan born in 1903 or 1904. All born within the same three towns. Two of them have the same last name.)