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My partner and I have very different feelings on organ donation. I’m a donor and think it’s the responsible thing to do once you’re gone and not using your body parts anymore. My partner comes from old school type parents that instilled in him a mistrust doctors. He has heard that sometimes families of comatose patients will be pushed to “pull the plug” sooner if they’re an organ donor, and he assumes that being a public organ donor means the richest and most privileged will have first access to your organs after death which he doesn’t like. I would love to refute his points but I just don’t know enough about it. Is there any truth to what he’s been led to believe?

Pretty much what I told him but I definitely don’t have the experience in that industry to back it up. Thank you so much! Really hoping I can eventually change his mind.

What's your main criticism of the podcast's telling of the story?

I tried to show him some of those tearjerker photos and videos of people listening to their dead loved one’s heart beating in another person’s chest, keeping them alive. That’s all it would take to convince me if I wasn’t already registered. But I’m definitely going to make him read this whole post now too.

I’m starting the process of getting double jaw surgery to correct an underbite and slanted top jaw. What was the healing process like? How long did it take you to eat solid and hard foods after you came out of surgery? Was it horribly painful? I’m most afraid of pain and not getting to eat normally for a long time.