Three years ago now

[Sonomaa]

nice! keep on going!

[Callisto]

Organ donorship should be mandatory unless you have some disease that makes yours unusable; it's not like you're going to do anything with them and they can do great things.

[Myrrh_Quetz]

Religion and human stupidity is why it's not mandatory. Hell, you can be a donor, die, and your loved ones can say no despite your own wishes

[archibaldcrane]

SCIENCE BITCH

[Seraph]

Organ donorship should be mandatory unless you have some disease that makes yours unusable; it's not like you're going to do anything with them and they can do great things.

I have a problem with it being mandatory, but I don't see any issues with it being encouraged (when applicable, obviously). I do believe it should be up to the individual though, not a proxy. Choices of this magnitude made for others can lead to devastating perverse incentives.

[Fhqwghads]

Hold on, you could have leveled a bit and you chose new LUNGS?!! Where are your priorities?!?! Lungs aren't rare, just about everyone has them. But fully leveled sub-jobs, and you could have been leeching to level on top of it? 0.o

Seriously though, glad you got some new fleshy oxygen bags. I kind of like breathing too, it's like an addiction you can't quit.

[Shadowscythe]

Congrats from a long term lurker, I've always found your threads uplifting.

[bluefan]

Aw man you left at a good time Myrrh. Snowing like crazy and I've been shoveling for the past 2 hours and will probably have to shovel again later.



But have fun there dude.

[TsingTao]

Congrats from a long term lurker, I've always found your threads uplifting.

This +1. I don't post often, but I enjoy the annual Still Kickin' post. Go you!

[Cream Soda]

I remember your original post on this years ago. Glad to see things are going well. Keep kicking ass.

[Cream Soda]

Hell, you can be a donor, die, and your loved ones can say no despite your own wishes

How does this work? What legally gives them the right to overturn your decision?

[Fievel]

Fuck yea, glad to hear you're doing well Myrrh.

[ronin sparthos]

Organ donorship should always be a choice and I've made sure to put myself in the registry. When I'm dead, it's the least I can do for someone else.

[Roundelk]

Grats! Hope you get whatever floats your boat in bed tonight for some plowing, put them lungs to good use!

[Myrrh_Quetz]

And at this time thee years ago they cut me open and started my transplant.

[Nirokun!]

Totally going to unnerve people and make a thread about my operation on Valentine's day, because my surgery was the morning of the 15th, and that would be right around sexy time here. >

DID YOU HAVE A THEME SONG FOR YOUR OPERATION DREAMBOAT? Milkster totally gave me mine (Avicii - Silhouettes)!

[Myrrh_Quetz]

Eye of the tiger. It's the song I asked my surgeon to sing me.

[notorious bum]

That's awesome glad you're still kicking around because of a donor. Anything of value they can take when I die. It's the last selfless thing we can do. Always good to see someone get a second chance and use it right.

Same here. I remember when I was little, I was turned-off at the thought that there were people who donated all their organs/eyes when they died. Nowadays, I find it unsettling when people want to be buried whole no matter what.

[Sqwunk]

Glad to hear it Myrrh!

[notorious bum]

For future reference, you can sign-up as an organ donor online in like 1min and then print out your donor card instantly.

http://organdonor.gov/becomingdonor/index.html