I want to donate my organs.

[FohPah]

I recently found a sudden sense of clarity and calm when I rehearsed hanging myself. Wearing the noose felt *right*. Not sad, not scary, not lonely, not desperate, but like I was going home. Like I've been preparing for it all my life. That feeling stuck with me ever since. This might actually be the best I've ever felt. I'd like to end on this high note.

I'm content with the life I've lived. It's not the life I wanted, and I still don't *like* day-to-day living with my particular personality and set of memories. But my curiosity is satisfied, and I have no ambitions at the moment. There's nothing more that I want to do. And I don't want to want to do anything else. I'm just... done.

Therefore, I have no need for my organs. Other people need them. People who still have things they want to do. People who have dependents. People who haven't yet found peace with themselves.

What I need right now is a trustworthy doctor to euthanize me and make sure my organs get preserved. And I need to trust that they get delivered, by people with good judgment, to patients who need them.

Our entire discourse about suicide, and our entire social support system for people considering suicide, is fucked. We don't need help with finding reasons to live. We don't need someone to correct our thinking. We don't even necessarily need someone to talk to. We need people we can *trust*.

 

[lanitoasmr]

my lungs are full of smoke

 

[FohPah]

I'd be allowed to be a combat medic, where my government literally pays me to go into an area where people are trying to kill me, so that I can try to save people's lives.

It's impossible to justify that option without also justifying the option of having someone peacefully kill me so that I can guarantee some people's lives will be saved.

 

[Erdapfel]

I believe, that being ''braindead'' is an invention of the medical industry, to justify organ transplantation. No one can transplant an organ from a dead person. The person must still be alive. If you are braindead, you'll still have all your reflexes and other bodyfunctions. Therefor being braindead, is nothing more than being in a coma. There are chances, that you will feel the pain of the organ transplantation.
Of course you have to decide for yourself what you want to do with your body, but I would never voluntarily undergo such a procedure.
Don't say, that I didn't warn you.

 

[FohPah]

I believe, that being ''braindead'' is an invention of the medical industry, to justify organ transplantation. No one can transplant an organ from a dead person. The person must still be alive. If you are braindead, you'll still have all your reflexes and other bodyfunctions. Therefor being braindead, is nothing more than being in a coma. There are chances, that you will feel the pain of the organ transplantation.
Of course you have to decide for yourself what you want to do with your body, but I would never voluntarily undergo such a procedure.
Don't say, that I didn't warn you.

Is there nothing you can do to an unconscious person that guarantees they can never feel pain and can never regain consciousness, while also keeping their organs usable?

 

[Erdapfel]

Is there nothing you can do to an unconscious person that guarantees they can never feel pain and can never regain consciousness, while also keeping their organs usable?

Probably the same thing that you would do to a person who didn't get the ''braindead''-stamp. As far as I know, there are doctors who believe that braindead means real death. As a result, they only administer agents that paralyze the muscles so that the patient remains still while the doctors remove the organs. However, you would have to adhere to the same standards as if you were to remove the organs from a living person.

 

[Brokenwings]

Basic Diagnosis of Brain Death JS

For a diagnosis of brain death: a person must be unconscious and fail to respond to outside stimulation. a person's heartbeat and breathing can only be maintained using a ventilator. there must be clear evidence that serious brain damage has occurred and it cannot be cured.

 

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