Actor and director, who is already a regular blood donor, says that he will make the organ donation next month

  • Okokimup
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    Man I knew you guys did siestas; I didn’t know you all donated your kidneys once a week.

    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
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      The average lifespan in Spain is about three weeks past adulthood and the dialysis industry is the nation’s #1 employer

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        I’m assuming you mean they default to being a donor when they die, but no one in Spain is going around forcing living people to give up their organs.

        • bufalo1973@piefed.social
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          We can donate while alive but there’s not that much of a pressure because being a donor when you die is opt-out. Only blood and bone marrow have campaigns to donate.