11-25-2025, 05:51 AM
(11-25-2025, 05:38 AM)Quantum12 Wrote: My friend had a stroke and his left side is dead weight. He struggles every day. He is also on a very low sodium diet.
In the states they don’t tell the donor info. The family reached out to me. They went through a big process to get in touch with me. I met them and they found comfort knowing their daughter saved my life. It was sad.
I mean, it's one of the most noble, kind, and heart-rending things imaginable.
Here in the UK, adults are presumed to consent to organ donation unless they have registered to opt out.
The lives saved are the ultimate gift, really, we should be so glad that we exist in a time period where such marvels are possible, imho.
I think the system is designed so that if the donor family chooses contact and the NHS, you could discover where the organ came from.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
