Genevieve3

Just a place to talk about what actions you want to be taken in the event of your death. I signed my doner card today thats why i started this thred

Genevieve3

To Remember Me--A Poem

The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped.

When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And don't call this my deathbed. Let it be called the Bed of Life, and let my body be taken from it to help others lead fuller lives.

Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby's face or love in the eyes of a woman.

Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain.

Give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wreckage of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play.

Give my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week.

Take my bones, every muscle, every fibre and nerve in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk.

Explore every corner of my brain. Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that , some day, a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain against her window.

Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow.

If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses and all prejudice against my fellow man.

Give my sins to the devil.

Give my soul to God.

If, by chance, you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you.

If you do all I have asked, I will live forever.

by Robert N. Test




AS most of you know my mom is sick, and among many other things her kidneys don't work. I know if people donted there organs more often that she would have to go to the hospital every other day to live " from week to week", she would be in the same pain shes in day after day. Plz sign your doner cards, Save lives.

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Think about life not death.

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Genevieve3

yeah i agree you should think about life, however i dont think that we shouldnt talk about death, your going to die adventually so i think its a good idea to know you position, and for others including friends and family, death is sad but it doesnt have to get scarry, i think if more people tlaked about it, it would save alot of pain.

Ashley

great poem, i recently was going to apply for a provisional driving license, which i havent done yet, but it does ask wether i should offer my organs to help others in the case of an accident or something. but i really really dont know what to put. i also heard its a recent change to the driving licensing forms too, which i suppose is a step in the right direction for people over here.

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In the event of my death -

Donate my organs - as long as they are healthy.
Get cremated
Play Sarah Connor feat. Natural: Just one last dance at my funeral!
Everyone to go out and party - i hate people being sad. I want my life to be celebrated not my death mourned.

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rainbow_hippie

ive had a donor card for ages - the way i see it, if im dead i dont need my organs anymore so someone else might as welll have them if they can use them.

im not sure about donating them for research though, that doesnt really appeal. Id want them to go to real people who needed them. i know its important that research gets done but it makes me a little squeamish to thing about it!

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Genevieve3

yeah
i totoally agree about the research thing, im all for the advancement in medicine, but i really dont like the thought of people abusing and using my body, i want to donate of course so others can directly be helped by it but research.... no i dont think so thats a little to weird. i dont know its just so .......disrespectful /??

Scattered

In the event of my death-

Plant a tree over my unimbalmed body.
Donate my organs for medical purposes.
Play Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve at my funeral.
Enjoy yourself and have a good time at my funeral.

I also want to reincarnate as either an Ant or a Tree, if that's possible...

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Cool
I was actualy talking to someone about not getting inbalmed but i dont think thats allowed i think you have to be imbalmed, just like if you lose a limb or something they have to keep it and bury it with your body. thats seems wierd to me.

Espionage

I don't think about death often..I just know how I want to be remembered/taken care of. I want to be cremated and have my ashes spread on the ocean where my grandmother used to take me to play when I was younger. I guess you could say it's my 'happy place'.

Miki

I know that after l die l'm going to havean,so l don't really worry much about when l am going to die.......any time lam ready

mia

argh i was listening to the verves bittersweet symphony when i read that...it sent shivers down my spine xD

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Ashley

thats real deep, i suppose i wouldnt know what to expect, in my religion its tradition to be burnt

though my mum said she'd follow that, and have her ashes scattered in the ocean.. funny that, same word and same username

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debs

i dunno what i'd do i think in the catholic church its frowned upon to get creamated but i couldnt be buried but im not very religious so i want to be creamated i juust hope that the people left go through with my decision.

i want to donate my monkey to someone who needs him except his eyes- i know it seems selfish when they could feed someone. and i wont need them anyway but i cant donate them.

i'm not really scared of death but i suppose im afraid of the i.s.p.c.a

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