Become An Organ Donor

Just listened to episode 7 of Skeptics with a K, the podcast of The Merseyside Skeptics Society and they left us with some homework !

What was the homework you ask. Well, it was to go out and register as an organ donor. It’s a damn good idea.

After all what use are they to you when you’re dead ?

• If you’re an atheist you’ll have no further requirement for them. The geraniums might need the potassium though.
• If you’re agnostic you’ll maybe only need some of them so give the rest up you organ hoarder !
• If you’re a believer and imagine you’ll go to your version of heaven then you’ll be sitting on clouds, drinking herbal tea, talking to god and watering pot plants so you’ll be too busy to need them and you might as well pass ‘em on to some deserving soul before you go. And then when you get to heaven minus your internals if god can’t lend you a kidney or something then frankly he didn’t plan the forward load for organ replacements very well did he ? Omniscience my arse ! So he can jolly well get down to the shonky shop and buy you a new one seeing as you’re doing much more good for people than he’s ever done. And get some cream buns while he’s at it. Lazy bugger.
• If you’re a believer and imagine you’ll go to to your version of hell then you’ll be downstairs with all the interesting people like Bill Hicks, Jimmy Hendrix, Stephen Fry, Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan and pretty much everyone else worth mentioning. After you’ve come to your senses and realised that pot plants and talking to god are boring you’ll be far too busy playing rock music with Bon Scott and/or laughing your head off when Fry and Hicks start the stage show to be needing your organs. And in any case don’t you want to keep them in good condition ? It’d be a shame to waste all that perfect cardiac functionality when your heart bursts due to the nuclear powered sex sessions with every single one of the Playboy kittens. Simultaneously. Best keep ‘em safe. In jars. Topside. The hospitals will take care of them for you.

Unless of course you’re planning on coming back.

I can’t say that the infinitesimal possibility of being restarted after centuries at -200 degrees C isn’t seductive but lets face it. I’m not a betting man, I don’t do the lottery so am I really going to bet on something with even longer odds ?
Nope.

So DO IT ! Register yourself as an organ donor. I just have. Click the pic or the link on the left.

NHS Organ Donation