little_tippler

Following on from the Ashes to Ashes thread, I noticed that many of the TFPers are organ donors. I have always been in two minds about it myself, I can see many good reasons to do it, but then... strangely, one of the things that bothers me (I know, I'll be dead), is that my organs could go to save someone completely undeserving. Is that weird? I know, undeserving is a strong word...

I'd love to hear what everyone has to say about why they chose to become organ donors, or not.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918