I’ve had an organ donor card in my wallet for as long as I can remember and I’ve always made it very clear to my loved ones that I want all my organs to be used when I die.

My question is, given that I only need one kidney, would it be better if I were to donate the other one right away rather than after my inevitable demise?

Obviously, my organs won’t be used in the unlikely event that I die in some unrecoverable way, like being lost at sea or something. And there’s always the possibility that a close relative might need a kidney at some point, so I should arguably save it for them.

Is there some other reason to do it now?

  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼English
    15•1 year ago

    ah, but[1] if you donate a kidney you go to the top of the queue

    you’re losing one when you don’t need one, and receiving one when you do

    insurance salesman here[2], just in case that might have gibt unnoticed

    1. to the best of my knowledge ↩︎

    2. obviously not ↩︎

    • @OakseyEnglish
      12•1 year ago

      But it won’t be your own kidney and you will have to take drugs to try and stop your body rejecting it.

    • Halafax
      4•1 year ago

      Source? When they proposed to do this for blood donors, it got shut down in a hurry.

    • Poplar?
      2•1 year ago

      I’m guessing you didn’t manually insert those footnotes, how did you?

      • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼English
        1•1 year ago

        lemmy supports two footnote formats

        the basic type like so:

        comment body here[^1]

[^1]: and the footnote at the very bottom of the comment

        or the easy to write type

        comment body here^[and the inline footnote]

        (note the different locations for the caret)

        keep in mind that they don’t work on most apps, and some frontends