I wanna be buried, but not stuffed full of the chemicals that embalming uses nowadays, so my body can return to the earth, after all possible donatable organs have been harvested.

I'm also an organ donor. :3

Yeah. And like you said, we'll be dead, and won't be using the organs anymore, so someone might as well have a chance at a full life because of 'em.

I've always said I wanna be a donor, but since I moved, I never really looked into it? I've told people, but don't really know where to register here.

Good you all mentioned it, I'll look into it. ;-)

I don't know how it works elsewhere, but here registering as a donor is not binding.

If there is any situation in which your organs could be harvested for medical reasons, your next of kin will be inquired.
The technicality is that you might never registered but you thought of doing so. And all the other way around you might have registered and changed your mind ever since - and you never got around being removed from the list.
So your next of kin is supposed to know what your current mind of the issue was, and comply with it.

First time I told about this, my mom freaked out.
Now my next of kin is my husband, and he's perfectly fine with it.
He hasn't registered as a donor, but he told me he would also like it if the situation arised.

Now hopefully we both die of old age and there are no useful organs to use xD

I actually checked, I was aware of the Dutch regulations which recently changed, but found out now the Hungarian one's are quite the same. Everyone's a donor, unless they refuse. So either you need to write down you don't want it or your relatives can refuse I guess. But if they know, I guess I'm fine. Wherever I am.

I remember filling it out in the Netherlands, I think I said no to eye things, but actually... Even that doesn't matter. And I doubt they'd want it, I wear glasses. Or doesn't that matter? I dunno.

Nice topic for this evening on the couch. xD

Talking about our own death is a perfect topic for a halloween event


I don't think glasses matter?
Whoever needs an eye is quite worse off than they would be with an unperfect eyesight.



@Moi:
I'm so glad I don't live in the US.
You have the weirdest regulations.