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Old 12-14-2005, 07:59 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Tamerlain
I kind of have the same problem little_tippler has in that I don't want my organs to go to people who don't deserve them. By undeserving, I mean I don't want my liver that I haven't destroyed by drinking like a fish to go to someone who has liver cancer due to alcoholism. Or my lungs to a smoker, etc.

I've avoided this problem by deciding that I'd rather donate my body to science and be a cadaver for medical schools.

-Tamerlain
My thoughts exactly. However, I still have organ donor on my license so that if somone in my family or one of my close friends should happen to need my organs I am available to them as an option. Other than that I would much rather my body go to science.
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