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Organ donation...what's the best parts you have?

RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
Got my drivers license renewed and they ask about being an organ donor.....started thinking about what were the best parts I had to offer (from the waist up of course). I've been pretty hard on the "Ol' body", not sure there is anything worth using...eye's are still 20/20, no heart problems, some hearing loss, got more "stomach" than I need, and nine fingers....
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The eyes are still useable, although not 20/20 any longer, got a good heart, and I haven't been using my brain lately, so that should still be okay!
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    After more then 20 years with diabetes, I think all my parts are just about shot. Including those below the waist.

    muley

    **I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Figure my eyes might help someone *completely* blind and if any other parts will help someone, they are welcome to them. Heck, I give blood every chance I can, this is just a one-time continuation of the same program.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I tell you my best part NUNN will poof the thread .....

    JD



    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The "eye's" have it. I recon that is about all there is that would do anyone any good at this point.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • trooperchintrooperchin Member Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ......My mom is a nurse and she was telling me that if you are an organ donor the doctors are more likely to let you die if you are in need of expensive medical care.

    Go Army Beat Navy
    IF you wanna have fun jine the cavalry
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fine by me. I've lived a full life, been everywhere I've ever wanted to go, and done everything I've ever wanted to do. The kids are grown and out of the house, my job there is done.

    I would go with no regrets, if I knew that another person's life would be enriched, using parts that I no longer had any use for.
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On me, it would have to be the ear hair.

    The most important things, Are not things.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe I'll give the Largest Organ on my Body.
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    Of Course everybody knows the largest organ on anyones Body is the Skin.

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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Rembrandt,I believe you have 9 and 2/3 fingers.

    Speaking of fingers,andI would not want it to seem as
    though I`m bragging,but the ol` trigger finger would be
    a pretty good windfallfor some deserving soul.

    .218
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    I sure am glad to hear all you are willing donors. Since the surgery, I have been practicing head shots every chance I get - could use a new heart

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    shootest3006,Save the legs for me. Take any sise as long as they work.

    The most important things, Are not things.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    varmint hunter--between your ear hair and the hair in my nose that grows like wildfire, we could probably start our own hair transplant clinic

    My lungs and heart have taken a beating from 8 years of smoking. Those are no good. I'm not much of a drinker. I may have a beer twice a month or so. My liver should be fine and my kidneys seem okay. The vision is still 20/20.
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  • garandfangarandfan Member Posts: 271 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Somebody can have my right eye, that baby is 20/15.

    "To be prepared for War is one of the most
    effectual means of preserving peace"-George Washington
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  • n4thethrilln4thethrill Member Posts: 366 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    well if garandfan and i both die they can have my left eye cause it's 20/15 also but my lungs should be ok i don't smoke and i walk 5 miles a day


    but unlike .280 freak i haven't been everywhere nor have i done everything so i want my ticker to keep on ticking

    you can be king or street sweeper but everyone is going to dance with the reaper
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  • homer4homer4 Member Posts: 128 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    At 51, not much worth giving away, but I signed up as an organ donor. They can take what they want.

    "...Abby someone""Abby who"..."Abby Normal"
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    my warranty ran out many, many years ago.
    when i go there wont be anything salvagable left.
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Im with Barto my warranty ran out after I turned 21 10yrs ago.

    Rugster
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Should have told them your best part was your wife...lol...

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been checked as an organ donor for some years on my DL. Recently learned that harvested organs are more likely to be sold to a commercial tissue/organ bank than to be transplanted into someone whose life depends upon it. I am still thinking about removing the donor check the next time I renew. I am not really sold on other people making a bunch of money on my old parts. I would rather just give them to Varmit for fish bait. Skin, for example is more likely to be sold to a cosmetic surgeon for face lifts and johnson enlargements than used on a burn victim because of the cost.

    A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
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  • vol fanvol fan Member Posts: 301 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No organs, but someone can have the piano ........

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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Would be nice if we could check "donor" for transplant, and not for experimentation or other such uses.

    Have Gun, will travel
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  • lazywallruslazywallrus Member Posts: 119 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I die take whatever can be used. Hell I dont care, Im DEAD!!!!!
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    N4thethrill -

    Minor nit to pick. I never said that I have been everywhere and done everything.

    What I said was, I have been everywhere that I have ever wanted to go and done everything I've ever wanted to do. Quite a difference, actually.
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  • BushobiBushobi Member Posts: 107 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rembrandt..they asked me the same question on my drivers license..if I wanted to be an organ donor...so I gave them my ex-wifes name.
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  • TheguncounterkidTheguncounterkid Member Posts: 224 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I read something awhile ago that one of the major med college was willing to pay $10,000 for rights to your body after you were done with it. I belive it was Yale, but they tattooed "Property of Yale"
    on the bottom of your foot and of coarse a bunch of paper work. Didn't look into at the time, so may have been a urban myth.
    $10k would be very tempting for getting a tattoo, i could get all those toys ive been wanting..
    -Kid
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, judging from some of the previous post there could be a lot of nib brain transplants as some are practicaly unused. respt submitted dads-freehold
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,474 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I figure they can take and use anything they want. The warranty has expired on most of me, so there is a no return policy in place.

    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My French harp. Mouth organ.
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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not many good parts left. Eyes goin' buggy, can't hear, BUT .. I do have a variety of spare hips and sockets Ive collected. Been through 3 total hips and have kept all pieces. So, if anyone is thinking about hip replacement maybe I can help ya out. Got more stainless steel in me than a new car has, probably more than a Ruger Super Redhawk in .480 Ruger ...
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    Once I am finished with them, whoever needs any of my parts is welcome to them. It will be up to someone else to decide what is salvagable.

    Not meaning to be selfish, but I hope I have the chance to wear everything plumb out.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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