Live Even After Dying- Organ Donation

Do you know what my last wish would be? My last wish before dying would be to live even after death. Not by having my face on the Indian Rupee, not by having biographies written about me, not by having a holiday in my honour, BUT by donating my organs which can save lives of up to 7 people and enhance up to 50 lives. A PART OF ME WILL LIVE EVEN AFTER I DIE.

Religious biases and disconnect from society have prevented people from pledging their organs after death. But I feel that above all lack of awareness is responsible for 4000-5000 people waiting for heart transplant, 80,000-1, 00,000 people waiting for sight and thousands others waiting for other organs.

 “God helps those who help others” is one phrase I had heard several times but is it really true in practice? God wouldn’t want us to turn a blind eye to those in need, God wouldn’t want us to not help ,then why does a barrier of religious belief come up when contributing to a good cause?

IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE.

Statistics don’t interest me and words can’t do justice to a sensitive topic like this. It will be the tears of joy in the eyes of the patients who would receive the bliss and the satisfaction on the faces of the donor family that would make one’s life as well as death meaningful.

What really triggered me to write this was an article I read post watching ‘Ship of Theseus’.

Sunday Times of India, Mumbai. March 23, 2014

Like any other article regarding organ donation, this one too stated that the family of a brain dead person (a death caused due to accidents wherein only the brain dies while the other organs are still working) should voluntarily donate the organs. It also mentions that it is the best parting gift one could give: A better life!

Talking about Ship of Theseus, it is a fantastic movie not an entertaining one that children would like to watch to pass time but definitely the one children should see by making time. It illustrates life of three people undergoing a transplant: a blind girl, a monk with liver cirrhosis and a man with kidney failure. It shows how organ transplant made such a great impact on their lives. For a moment after the third story began I thought, “oh so a transplant can really change life is the purpose” until I discovered that the organs that were donated were from the body of the same man. One dead man made such major alteration in lives of people he didn’t even know!

What more could a blind want than sight?

Please spread this generous message to your near and dear ones and be in the blessings of many.

For more information regarding the same take a look the sites below:

http://giftalife.org/

http://donatelifeindia.org/

http://www.pennlive.com/bodyandmind/index.ssf/2013/04/6_important_things_to_know_abo.html

Also, http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/consumer-health/in-depth/organ-donation/art-20047529 will tell you about the myths and facts about organ donation.