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These reddit-like feelgood threads have, IN MY OPINION, very little to do with HN, hackers, programming and whatever. Moreover, they feel very US centric. Off to a downvote shower ciao
I’m thankful for the heart donor who saved my newborn daughter’s life last week. My daughter contracted Coxsackie B enterovirus at 2 weeks old, and it scarred her left ventricle beyond repair. Her donor has given her a second chance. Another family had to make a heartbreaking choice at a devastating moment, and they chose to give life to my daughter and probably several other gravely ill infants. Check your organ don…
I am happy for your family. I am an organ donor. I am also planning to donate my body to a medical institution so that the medical students have a human body to dissect and learn from. I hear that there is a dearth of human bodies. Since the topic of organ donation came up, I thought of asking this question. This is a real incident. I am not making this up. I met a learned priest. Both I and the priest are hindus. He…
I am thankful for School 42 - Paris. In France, it is the only school which offer a (very) good software engineering training for free. Without that school, I would have made a 3-year study in a public school and my life would not have been nowhere close my today's life.
I am thankful for all the people who likes and accept me even if I may be a weird guy.
I am thankful for the enterprise where I am working since 2 years, it is a real family.
And, I am thankful to all the individuals, organizations, open-source project, initiatives, all around the world which makes a better world to live in.
Last but not least, I am thankful to all the people which are hidden, but makes our lives being worth to live in today standards.
and not thankful for what threatens this beauty and happiness, obviously pollution, people excessive footprint, consumerism lifestyles. It makes things incredibly harder for nature to catch up
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> That's amazing! I'm super happy for you and your family! > Your comment gave me pause because it reminded me that it is opt-in not opt-out. It is an election cycle, I wonder if we could convince one of the candidates to switch us to opt-out rather than opt-in for organ donation. While I am personally an organ donor, I don't believe the state should be the defacto owner of my organs post mortem.
I've heard a proposal for a alternative to opt-in and opt-out which is 'forced choice' How it works is a form to do some other thing (for example, get a driving license) has a checkbox to donate and one to not donate, and the form is rejected as incomplete if you don't choose one or the other. This of course means you don't have to apply a default to those people, because they've made an explicit choice already. Of c…
It could be opt-in or opt-out for everyone else. You don't have to solve the problem perfectly to make it better than it is today.
Definitely not my family. Friends have been far less toxic, and those that know me hold a great amount of respect for me which they've shared with me over the past few years. I'm very thankful that an outsider feels that way about me because my family makes me feel like I'm a zero, when I've worked hard to live up to my own high standards. I'm mainly thankful for my integrity and solid character that I've built over…
Strength of character is forged in the fires of adversity.
I'm thankful I'm not born in USA
Please keep nationalistic flamebait far away from this site. We don't want it, or what it leads to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: since you've mostly been posting unsubstantive comments and/or breaking the site guidelines, I've banned this account again. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the…
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I replied elsewhere in the thread, but in a tldr kind of way: I think next of kin should get the organs (or the estate, as another commenter mentioned). In the case where there is no next of kin and the deceased did not express their wishes (in a will or similar), then, and only then, should the state gain custody of the body and dispose of it as the state sees fit.
I'd disagree with "as the state sees fit". I have no problems with my organs being used to help others, either as direct spare parts for others, or for medical research. But I'd take issue with (well, I'd be dead, so I could no longer take issue, but you catch my drift) my organs being used for just about any other type of research, since that could include research into better ways of killing one another, which I wo…