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Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by munmaek »

hycaria wrote: post #209
didgeoridoo wrote: post #11

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 opted out of organ donation in a country which enables it by default. Looking at it from an evolutionary point of view, I don't see any good in it, sorry.

Do you also abstain from

- hospitals

- medicine

- glasses / other similar implements

- any other human altering measures?

We closed the door on natural evolution a long time ago. Most of us are already cyborgs with our phones and computers. Any future evolution will be done by us (I.e. more advanced cyborgs cyborgs / genetic modification).

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by munmaek »

timwaagh wrote: post #260

I'm thankful for white privilege. I'm thankful for Airbnb and rising rents. I'm thankful some women go hungry. And I'm thankful for suboptimal hiring practices. Is it wrong to be thankful for the things that help you even if they are not exactly good?

I believe the relevant quote is “You’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole”.

Better to keep some opinions to yourself, I think.

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by MikeTheGreat »

27182818284 wrote: post #17
didgeoridoo wrote: post #11

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…

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.

I personally like the idea of allowing others to make use of these useful organs, especially since the original owner can't use them anymore and they'll decay within days (if not hours).

That said I don't agree with forcing people to something they don't want to and I know that there are at least a couple of religions out there that forbid cutting up the body after death.

The 'forced choice' option (in one of the other comments) is a really good one, IMHO

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by startup_sr »

hi41 wrote: post #89
didgeoridoo wrote: post #11

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…

When God asks for your organs that you donated at heaven's gate just tell Him its coming back after another 40 or so years.

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by hestipod »

Nothing. All the conventional things, the things people are posting here repeatedly. I don't have. I either never had them like truly loving family, or they were taken from me like health and security. There were a handful of wonderful people but they are all gone while the shit ones thrive. There was a career helping others and making the world a better place, but that was taken too. Even the one thing I actually care about anymore, my cat, is a double edged sword because she has brought me much joy, and I have done my best for her, but I cannot give her the future she deserves because I cannot even survive my own. I can only hope the people in my life who never do the right thing will this time do the right thing by her and my legal directives. None of it was worth the 95% of my life that was pain and misery. The only good thing is that it will end soon...and that's just bittersweet rather than some comfort. It was all a great disappointment...people mostly so.

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by big_chungus »

munmaek wrote: post #259
big_chungus wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This concern has held me back from becoming an organ donor: there have been concerns [0] [1] for many years about use of donor tissue in plastic surgery. I'm more than happy to get turned into life-saving donor parts, but am not okay with being turned into lip fillers for someone to sell to some diva. How can I make sure that my organs go _only_ to life-saving causes? [0]: https://www.chron.com/news/health/article/So…

If I’m dead then I don’t think I’d really care much at that point. If more of my dead body can be utilized before it becomes waste, then that’s cool.

Fine, but the point is that I do. I'd like to become an organ donor, and an organ donor _only_. How do I ensure I can do some good without getting cut up for plastic surgery?

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by cjbprime »

MikeTheGreat wrote: post #263
27182818284 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I personally like the idea of allowing others to make use of these useful organs, especially since the original owner can't use them anymore and they'll decay within days (if not hours). That said I don't agree with forcing people to something they don't want to and I know that there are at least a couple of religions out there that forbid cutting up the body after death. The 'forced choice' option (in one of the oth…

> That said I don't agree with forcing people to something they don't want to

It is hard to argue both that not donating one's organs would be a strongly held religious belief, and that someone would not care about it enough to communicate that desire by just opting out.

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by muffa »

boyka wrote: post #179
muffa wrote: post #178

Thankful to grow up in country where hospitals are free(I have never needed medical attention but close family members) and higher-education is paid for so I could study for 6 years without stressing about money.

Wow, where did you grow up?

Sweden!

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by muffa »

ovebepari wrote: post #248
muffa wrote: post #178

Thankful to grow up in country where hospitals are free(I have never needed medical attention but close family members) and higher-education is paid for so I could study for 6 years without stressing about money.

Bangladesh!

Not even close! (Sweden) Do you have the same perks in Bangladesh? :)
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