I have been an organ donor for years. If something should happen to me, I decided that I want to save someone else's life. I guess I decided when I became a RN and saw the beauty in this gift...

I've also been an organ donor for yrs. Someone back in college mentioned there was no way he would be because they can 'pull the plug' if you're an organ donor. I decided NOT to adopt that jaded viewpoint and hv been an organ donor since! :-) I just renewed my licence and and again a donor (with all my heart!).

Not only have I decided to donate my organs- knowing it would benefit someone else when I no longer need my tissues

But I try to donate blood when I see the red cross set up with their mobile donor bus, on campus regularly.

Maybe they have conned me into it (since I am type 0+) as if they are vampires!

It is a no brainer.  What on earth are you going to do with you organs when you are dead?  If you can help someone with just one part of your body. Why not?  I have seen what organ transplants can do.

I decided to be an organ donor when I first got my drivers license and they asked me. I never thought twice about it. I also have a friend whom I met in nursing school who has been on dialysis since she was twelve. She is now 25. She has no working kidneys. They are the size if a small shriveled orange. She had just gotten a transplant when we started school together. During second semester her transplant rejected and she had to go back on dialysis and have it removed. Well we have the same blood type so naturally I went and got tested. But because of a blood transfusion that was not treated properly during the transplant she has so many antibodies against everything it is going to be really really hard to find a match. So being a donor doesn't always have to be something you do after you die. If we had been a match I would have given her one of mine.

I became an organ donor when I got my driver's license, some 24 years ago.  I guess I just felt that my organs would do more good for someone else rather than taking them to the grave with me.  At that point, they'll be no more good to me.  I would suggest that everyone talk to their loved ones left behind to make sure they are on board with your decision.  My decision to be an organ donor is in the minority in the African American community so I had to make sure that my husband, mother, sister all knew what my wishes were. 

I became an organ donor when I got my first state ID. I feel that if a part of me can prolong or save the life of another human being, then it gives my own life more meaning.

I am not only an organ donor, but also a full body donor. They can have any useful organs, including skin, and when they have all they need there, they can use whats left for medical science. I know many people do not agree and I DO know what they do with the bodies. But if I can help some future doctor or nurse learn firsthand about the human body as opposed to working on pigs or cats, it will benefit their future patients. It was either that or cremation, and why not benefit education if I can.

I'm an organ donor too.  I wonder if a medical school would want my body though?  There goes our new MD's for the future.........'flunked out because screamed innappropriatly when cadaver bag unzipped'. 

I am not sure when I decided to become an organ donor, however I know I have been since I started driving and it was put on the driver's licenses. To me it seemed logical to donate to help others, since I had been helping as a Red Cross volunteer since I was 15. And I gave blood from when I was 16, until we found out I had dormant Osteomyelitis (shortly after my last active duty and it went active after a training accident).

Now, with the infection cured by amputation, depending on the need, they want me as a "live donor" for blood. My blood type is AB rH negative.

If my blood wood be accepted, I would donate every chance I would have. From my mother's records of my original injury in 1974, we know I recieved about 20 units of blood then. And then again after a post-bleed after my gastrict by-pass in 2002, I received at least 10 units.

I really believe I have had more than my fair share of "second chances", and want to make sure I give back more than I have received.

God bless all, Paul

I cannot comprehend why somebody wouldn't want to be an organ donor?  I always have been, my husband is, my kids are (yes, we've discussed the untimely demise of my young children with them).

RNdude says ...

What am I gonna do with 'em?

Simply and perfectly stated!

I do not think I decided to become an organ donor, I just did. Why would anyone want to keep their organs, when they could save someones life?  Like someone posted before...........IT IS A NO BRAINER.

I do not know why I did it.