in which context is all

[rm]

Me: Did you hear about Steve Jobs?

Patty: Hasn't his health been fucked up for a while?

Me: [blah, blah, blah...] ... liver transplant.

Patty: Did you know most people who want to be organ donors can't because the organs have to be gotten so quickly?

Me: You know stuff about morbid stuff. Well hey, if they fail at being organ donors, they can donate their bodies to the Ohio State Buckeyes¹.

Patty: You could donate your body to Glee.

Me: A thought I'm sure people have often, in an entirely different context.


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¹ As at least one of her relatives has.

Comments

Donating your ex-you.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Intact corneas can almost always be harvested posthumously. Any body can be donated to science or a teaching hospital. And at some point the crash test dummies have to be real.

Re: Donating your ex-you.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

ISTR it was advertised by the organ-donation service that the late great Jerry Orbach donated his corneas to his fellow-New Yorkers.

Re: Donating your ex-you.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

And some people like me who can't donate anything else (e.g. people who have had a metastatic cancer) can still donate corneas.

Re: Donating your ex-you.

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

My father is a Lions' Club member (their humanitarian work mostly revolves around schools for the blind/visually impaired and sight restoration) and I got a chance to hear a guest speaker talk on this very subject. Fascinating. There is a fairly brief time window on this, but I don't think it's longer than for major organs.