So I don’t want a wake or funeral.  I want absolutely zero fuss made about my death.  But I feel bad killing myself and taking all these healthy organs with me… so I think, I know, I will donate them.  So I had this idea to do it in winter on a snowy day, so my body would stay fresh until I was found…. But it turns out that hospitals/universities/chop shops won’t take suicides… Also,  if you donate your body to one of these chop shop organ/body donation companies, they dole the pieces out to the highest bidder, making at least $200,000 per body.  The bodies hang on meat hooks like cattle… Also, you have to pay to transport your donated body to the chop shop…. they are already making a huge profit off my body and they won’t even pick it up.  So even then it is going to be like $2000 for transport. I don’t like the idea of some greedy company profiting off of my body.
So now I am considering being a living donor. Â But I am concerned about several things:
1.) I will fail the psychological exam. I am such an emotional mess, I am afraid I will begin sobbing during the interview process which one must undergo to be declared psychologically fit to donate.
2.) While the hospital will cover the operation costs and most of the tests, you have to have up to date physicals and gynecological exams submitted first, which I do not have, since I am currently uninsured.
3.)I was thinking doing kidney and partial liver, but the tests are very invasive. Â I really don’t want to go through all that, but I feel selfish wasting my organs. Â If I’m going to do this, I will start with bone marrow first and maybe work up to kidney or liver…
Has anyone else found an answer to a free/cheap disposal of their body? If I kill myself in a hotel or apartment, there will surely be a clean up fee which could be anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars.  Can an apartment complex or hotel sue your estate if you commit suicide on their property? I am fine with paying  clean up costs, but could they claim loss of income/business because of bad press due to my death?  Has anyone thought about organ donation either before or after the suicide?
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I think the idea of a hospital not accepting some perfectly good organs due to person committing suicide is absurd. I can understand them not taking organs from person that died from a diesases or something like that.
Not completely sold on the idea of being a living donor.
Your probably want to reconsider that option.
Thank you for replying. I too think it is ridiculous. Did you know that if your body is taken to a funeral home and no one pays the bill, the funeral home will sell your body to one of these body “chop shops.” They will then parcel your body parts out, selling them to universities for dissection. So if you are willing to be derelict on your funeral bills, you could be sold in parts to a medical school. Your body will already have been embalmed so the organs will be worthless for transplant, but you will sort of be helping further a good cause. It’s not the same as saving a life though. This seems to be the only way they will not waste your body. If they know it is a suicide outright, they are not allowed to take it.
Spin, you are completely misinformed on pretty much everything. If you were to commit suicide, and you are a registered organ donor, AND your organs are still in tact and fit for donation, there is no reason any hospital would refuse to allow organ donation based on cause of death. The fact of the matter is, if you’ve committed suicide and didn’t do so with huge amount of intention and planning for your organs to be donated (i.e. do it right in front of a hospital ER, in such a way that you caused only brain death), then it simply would not be POSSIBLE for a hospital to take your organs because organs need to be perfused (meaning filled with blood and vital fluids) at the time of transplant. This is generally only possible if they’ve received the body IMMEDIATELY following death and the organs have not been compromised. Most people don’t commit suicide right in front of a hospital ER — most people do it and then their bodies are discovered quite a bit later.You’re also misinformed about funeral homes selling bodies to “chop shops” that simply don’t exist. It is illegal to sell human bodies or organs in the United States unless the deceased has explicitly, in writing, donated their body to science.