Saving this one for a rainy day.
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Whenever I watch Dead Like Me I wish I could dress like Daisy Adair.
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I AM SO EXCITED.Dear Savanna & Ampersands,
Yes! Veggie bacon is magical & delicious. I eat them as snacks! I crunch them up into “veggie bacon bits” for salads! I make veggie-bacon, avocado & hummus sandwiches! I make BLT’s a million times a week. If I wake up hungry at 2AM, I run to the freezer & go directly for the veggie bacon!
Here’s the deal. GET THIS BRAND: Morning Farms Veggie Bacon Strips (they’re in the freezer isle at the grocery store). I don’t know what crazy science slash magic they’re up to, but holy Lord in Heaven, are these good!
Follow these directions: three strips in the microwave, 1:45 minutes & you will get very crispy (YES, CRISPY!) veggie bacon that is ready to play with your taste buds. FUN! YUM!
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“I wouldn’t donate any part of my body to science or leave it for anyone else to use. I think you’re given a time on earth and when the timer runs out — that’s it. If you’re born with a defect that’s your cross to bear. If others morally feel they can help them by doing it that’s their choice. Why should I be forced to do something I don’t want to do because someone says so. Leave it as it is if someone wishes to carry a donor card, that’s fine. When I die, why should someone else get use out of my organs? Let me die and rest in peace and intact.
I brought up the whole thing about opt-out organ donation policy/opt-in organ donation policy. I pointed out now how I think that all countries should have it where it’s an opt-out policy, where if you don’t say you want out of organ donation, upon your death that you’re considered ones. It’s been shown that countries that have this, have less problems because more people are willing to become organ donors. And that’s what was said to me by someone about the whole thing and how it is. It’s not something you should say to someone who is waiting for a donor match to get a transplant.
Okay, fine. I could have maybe saw the person’s point of it being a personal choice, if it wasn’t said in that way. But, a huge part of me disagrees about that. Maybe it’s because of my own situation right now while waiting for an organ donor match, and how I look at it a lot more differently than I would have before. I think there needs to always be an opt-out policy, and that upon your death you’re an organ donor, unless you choose not to be one. Plus, it’s not like it’s being forced to be an organ donor, when you have the option of saying that you don’t want to be one. So, really, you’re still being given an option of whether you want to be one or not. There is still the choice there to remain one or not, so you’re not being forced to be one. It all could be translated to simply this: “I don’t care about anyone but myself. I have money and I’m healthy, so fuck everyone else.”
The fact that this person said that it’s the other person’s cross to bear with being born with a birth defect, is what irritated me. It’s not like someone asks to be born with a defect. Someone doesn’t ask to get a disease that can be life threatening and need an organ transplant. It’s almost like saying you have a chance to save someone else’s life upon your death, give relief to a family who have someone who is sick and in need of a transplant, a chance to do something to help someone in a big way… and you would rather be selfish and say that no one should get use of your organs, even though you no longer have use of them.
You basically have the chance to be a “hero” by saving someone else’s life by being one. You might not be around to feel like one for that, but do you think the person’s whose life your organ saved is going to forget it? Chances are they won’t and will be grateful every day that you were an organ donor. Chances are the families of that person, and the people that are close to the person who need it — are always going to be grateful for it.
“When I die, why should someone else get use out of my organs? Let me die and rest in peace and intact.” To me, that’s almost like saying when you die, you don’t think someone else should be given the chance at life. Your organs aren’t of any use to you once you’re dead, so why not become an organ donor, and give someone who is sick and needs a transplant a chance at life? No one asks to have birth defects, diseases or any kind of sickness that requires them to get one just to be able to live. If you can help someone upon your death by being an organ donor — why not?
I get it, it’s a “personal choice”, but I’m pretty sure anyone who can think organ donation should only be an opt-in policy, hasn’t had someone they love need an organ transplant, and they haven’t needed one or will never need one. Even then, there are people that want to become organ donors, but sometimes don’t get around to signing up for it [for whatever reason.] But, I’m also sure that if it becomes the case and they’re the one that needs the transplant — they will be saying something else and want the opt-out policy so they can get the organ that they need to live a healthy life again.
A lot of people die while waiting for transplants, because some people don’t become organ donors, not enough people sign up to become one. For the people who don’t have to sign up to become one, it’s why an opt-out policy is perfect, so they don’t have to. Some people are too afraid to sign up to be one, and it eliminates that to have that kind of policy for organ donation.
Everything about this.
Plus, there are plenty of people who won’t sign up to donate but will also not opt out.
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carmenlsigman asked: VIVA BARCE!!!
You go, girl!
That’s right chica, no Real Madrid fans here. Ibrahimović is my man.
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My teams are
- the Saints & the Seahawks
- Rafa Nadal
- Oakland A’s (sometimes also the Red Sox)
- Futbol Club Barcelona
