FilmLife Blog Challenge
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At Youth Health 2.0, I am passionate about how tools and messages are designed to inspire young people towards better health outcomes. This blog post is about us leaving something behind when we die so that someone else, whom we do not know will have a better outcome.
The FilmLife Project is dedicated to increasing awareness around organ donation in conjunction with Donate Life Week 2012 (19-26 Feb). On the 21, 22 and 28 of January a free FilmLife workshop worth $3000 will be held. Sign up, get trained and enjoy the journey. For more information please see here.
If you’re blogger and would like to take up the FilmLife Blogger Challenge head to this website here.
As for me, I am going to answer these 2 question:
1. What’s your take on or experience with organ donation, and why did you choose to take part in the FilmLife Blogger Challenge?
I have no ‘attachment’ to my organs and am looking forward to the day when I can make a difference in someone’s life. Of course one will never know when their time is up but, to make such a precious gift to a stranger is a privilege.
2. If you were to donate your organs, which one would you love to donate, and why?
I would donate everything. Why? Where I’m going I wont be needing them. It is as if a newborn baby is hanging on for dear life to their umbilical cord and placenta when it is time to use their other faculties and organs.
3. Who in your family would you need to talk to about organ donation, to be sure your loved ones knew your wishes?
My wife and our children will be together on this one and see it come through.
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I’ve always been a huge advocate for organ donation. I don’t know if it’s the same in OZ but in the U.S. we can designate if we want to be an organ donor on our drivers license.
New England Journal of Medicine ran a fascinating article: Three Patients with Full Facial Transplantation
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1111432#t=articleTop
As I’m fond of reporting to my students” I’m curious” so I continued to read the very end of the piece the thank you section. I noticed the follow information:
Lisa Quinn for her outstanding work as a study coordinator; and the donor families and the New England Organ Bank (in particular, Christopher Curran) for their enthusiasm, dedication, and success in the safe procurement of the facial allografts.
When I googled the New England Organ Bank I discovered they have a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/donatelifenewengland
And a Twitter Page
@DLNewEngland https://twitter.com/#!/DLNewEngland
Hopefully with Health Care and Social Media we will be able to increase the number of people who are educated and chose to be organ donors.
Thank you for helping to spread this important information.
Lisa thank you for putting together a great comment and sharing your insights into this topic. I think that maybe by eencouraging more conversations on organ donation, the public will warm up to the idea organically.
thanks heaps Kishan for getting involved in the filmlife.com.au bloggers challenge! you were our 15th blogger!