#tissue donation

When you have a full tissue donor to embalm, you ditch the suit and scrub up!

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Local veterinarian swims to four medals, and world record

ORIGINAL URL: https://www.gastongazette.com/entertainmentlife/20190904/local-veterinarian-swims-to-four-medals-and-world-record

By Special to The Gazette Posted Sep 4, 2019 at 9:37 AM

After months of training, 214 athletes on the USA Team traveled to Newcastle Gateshead, United Kingdom, to compete along with the 2,237 athletes from 59 countries in the 2019 World Transplant Games Aug. 17-24.…

Organ Donation Week: Donors can save several lives

ORIGINAL URL: https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/organ-donation-week-donors-can-save-several-lives/

Emma Morrice 02/09/2019, 6:00 pm

This week marks national Organ Donation Week, which aims to raise awareness of the register, and highlights the importance of ensuring that loved ones know your wishes following your death.

According to figures held by NHS Blood and Transplant,…

So I’m only going to speak to Canada here, because that’s where I am and everywhere else is too much research for my lazy ass. If you’re from somewhere outside Canada, feel free to reblog with a link to the info for your country/state.

My rational brain is always telling me “you’re not going to need them. You’re dead. You’re going to be burned to nothing probably. Give them to people who can use them.”

My irrational brain is always countering with “but you might not be dead dead. You could come back.”

Organ and tissue donation is important and beneficial to people who actually need it. Your ashes don’t need a heart.

So it’s really easy (at least in Alberta) to become an organ donor. You fill out an online form, decide what you want to donate and to where, and mail off a consent form. One big thing is that you must also tell your family/next of kin your wishes - they make the final consent. 

If you donate all organs and tissues, you could be saving up to 8 lives and making life better for up to 75 people.

Personally, the only organ/tissue that I’m not comfortable donating is my eyes. I have no idea why, I just can’t. Also I chose to only donate for transplantation purposes and not scientific research or medical education. If you donate for scientific research or medical education, then only your eyes can be donated for transplantation, as the body must remain intact in those circumstances.

You CAN withdraw consent at ANY TIME. Also, another big thing is make your wishes known to your family/next of kin. If you mail in the form to withdraw consent but it is not received before something happens, then at least your next of kin knows what your wishes were and do not have to give consent. Next of kin gives final consent.

There is no cost to the donor or their family. Your body will be released back to your family within 24-48 hours looking pretty okay, meaning an open casket funeral is possible. You are never too old to donate. The oldest organ donor in Canada was 92. If you think that you won’t be able to be an organ/tissue donor, but want to sign up, sign up. Let the specialists decide if your organs & tissues are useable.

The ages to register, how to register, and what you can donate is different between provinces, so do your research.

Alberta Info: https://myhealth.alberta.ca/pages/otdrhome.aspx

BC Info: http://www.transplant.bc.ca/

Manitoba Info: http://www.transplantmanitoba.ca/transplant-program

New Brunswick Info: https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/health/Hospital-Services/content/organ_donation.html

Newfoundland & Labrador Info: http://www.easternhealth.ca/Give.aspx?d=1&id=323&p=53

Nova Scotia Info: http://www.legacyoflife.ns.ca/

NWT & Nunavut are both coordinated by AB: https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/info/service.aspx?id=2044

Ontario Info: https://www.giftoflife.on.ca/en/transplant.htm

PEI Info: https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/information/health-pei/organ-and-tissue-donation?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=url&utm_campaign=organ-and-tissue-donation

Quebec Info: https://www.hema-quebec.qc.ca/tissus-humains/index.en.html

Saskatchewan Info: https://www.saskatchewan.ca/residents/health/accessing-health-care-services/organ-and-tissue-transplants-and-donations

New Story has been published on https://enzaime.com/one-of-the-worlds-foremost-organ-transplant-programs/

One of the World's Foremost Organ Transplant Programs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHwbMWT6z4

Transplant at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is one of the world’s foremost organ transplant programs, and UW Organ and Tissue Donation is recognized as one of the nation’s leading organ and tissue donation programs.

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