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?

  • Poplar?
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    21 year ago

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

    • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼
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      11 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