I've done some online research regarding donating blood over the past couple of months but it's all conflicting information. Some say you can donate blood, some say you can't. I don't really NEED to know because I don't donate blood anyway. My veins are so hard to use that I just don't do it.
Organ donation on the other hand, is important to me. Since I got my license 23 years ago I've been listed as an organ donor. It suddenly occured to me the other day....CAN I still be an organ donor when I die? Much of what I'm reading indicates that people with MS cannot be organ donors but can donate brain and spinal tissue for research. The reasoning behind not being allowed to donate is that the cause of MS is unknown but it thought to possibly be caused by a virus.
Does anyone have any further information? I found a website for the Rocky Mountain MS Center who will pay for a pathologist in your own area to do the autopsy to obtain the brain and spinal tissue and they will then pay for your body to be returned to the funeral home. There must be other programs out there as well.
UGH, this sounds so morbid and I apologize. This is important to me though and I want to learn all I can and then make an informed decision about what to do with my body when I die.
Organ donation on the other hand, is important to me. Since I got my license 23 years ago I've been listed as an organ donor. It suddenly occured to me the other day....CAN I still be an organ donor when I die? Much of what I'm reading indicates that people with MS cannot be organ donors but can donate brain and spinal tissue for research. The reasoning behind not being allowed to donate is that the cause of MS is unknown but it thought to possibly be caused by a virus.
Does anyone have any further information? I found a website for the Rocky Mountain MS Center who will pay for a pathologist in your own area to do the autopsy to obtain the brain and spinal tissue and they will then pay for your body to be returned to the funeral home. There must be other programs out there as well.
UGH, this sounds so morbid and I apologize. This is important to me though and I want to learn all I can and then make an informed decision about what to do with my body when I die.
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