organ donation
2018/04/10 20:41
After the bus crash of the (Canadian) Humboldt, Sask junior hockey team, there's been a lot of talk about the one player who'd just signed up to be an organ donor.Humboldt Broncos player Logan Boulet, 21, was from Lethbridge, Alta. Boulet had recently signed an organ donation card and was kept on life support while matches were found for his organs. He is expected to save the lives of at least six people. (SJHL)
I'm surprised that only 1 person on the bus had done this. What is the rate of registering to donate? Canada? US? World?
It's been a check-box on our drivers-license form as far back as I can remember, so it's not hard to do.
And it's painless. ☺Legal experts say even if someone in Canada registers to be an organ donor, their family can quash that request due to a disconnect between the law and policy.
... the number of people who would qualify clinically as potential organ donors "is ballpark one per cent or so of the people who would die in an ICU."
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After the bus crash of the (Canadian) Humboldt, Sask junior hockey team, there's been a lot of talk about the one player who'd just signed up to be an organ donor.Humboldt Broncos player Logan Boulet, 21, was from Lethbridge, Alta. Boulet had recently signed an organ donation card and was kept on life support while matches were found for his organs. He is expected to save the lives of at least six people. (SJHL)
I'm surprised that only 1 person on the bus had done this. What is the rate of registering to donate? Canada? US? World?
It's been a check-box on our drivers-license form as far back as I can remember, so it's not hard to do.
And it's painless. ☺Legal experts say even if someone in Canada registers to be an organ donor, their family can quash that request due to a disconnect between the law and policy.
... the number of people who would qualify clinically as potential organ donors "is ballpark one per cent or so of the people who would die in an ICU."
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/974179.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]