Years ago, my 18 year old cousin was in a bad motorcycle accident. It was touch and go for several days before he was declared brain dead and I watched my uncle let him go. The evening he arrived in the hospital, the vultures descended on my uncle harrassing him to commit to donating my cousins organs. My uncle and cousin were VERY close and they were very insensitive and very persistent. We had to run interference so they would stop upsetting my uncle. They were hard pressure, hard ball "salesperson". It was disgusting. They took every single god damned opportunity they could get to pin my grieving uncle up against a hospital wall trying to get their hooks into him. Our entire family had to keep an eye out for those vultures.
exactly. it was positively predatory. And, yes, to them, he was just a piece of meat, not anything related to what a beautiful soul my cousin had been.
I was down for being a donor until....
Years ago, my 18 year old cousin was in a bad motorcycle accident. It was touch and go for several days before he was declared brain dead and I watched my uncle let him go. The evening he arrived in the hospital, the vultures descended on my uncle harrassing him to commit to donating my cousins organs. My uncle and cousin were VERY close and they were very insensitive and very persistent. We had to run interference so they would stop upsetting my uncle. They were hard pressure, hard ball "salesperson". It was disgusting. They took every single god damned opportunity they could get to pin my grieving uncle up against a hospital wall trying to get their hooks into him. Our entire family had to keep an eye out for those vultures.
exactly. it was positively predatory. And, yes, to them, he was just a piece of meat, not anything related to what a beautiful soul my cousin had been.