Organ & Body Donations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
- John Oliver discusses the systems in place for donating our organs and bodies, why those donations don’t always go where we might think they’re going, and which airline is the Greyhound bus of the sky.
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When my daughter Jana passed away, I was able to donate her corneas. A 5 yr old boy and a 17 yr old boy both gained sight because of her gift.
I'm so sorry for your profound loss. May her memory be a blessing.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I’m sure Jana was an amazing person.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Im very sorry for your loss. Becoming an organ donor is a very difficult decision to make and thanks to you and Jana, I am able to see out of my right eye again.
It's an unbelievably selfless thing you did. I'm profoundly sorry for your loss. Bless you and yours ❤❤
We donated our 9yr old daughter’s heart, liver, and kidneys. She saved 4 lives. Kinda hard to watch the dog eating up the human heart 🫀…. No one probably will read this but I felt I wanted to state it anyway, signed a mom that still grieves.
Thank you for sharing. I wish you wouldn't have been in that situation, but we do feel with you.
Thank you❤
Thank you for sharing. I am sorry for your loss and hope the grieving process gets a bit tolerable. You and your daughter are in my thoughts.
As someone whose life was saved by an organ transplant, any waste of a viable organ is sickening to me since I know how precious they are. Although I found, as usual, other parts of the show funny, that clip was revolting.
So sorry for your loss. 😢❤ As a former medical laboratory technician, I agree the dog scene was horrifying.
My husband was an organ donor. It was hard because they have to take them pretty quickly after they die, but I knew he had signed up to be one and I knew that was his wish. Months afterwards I got a letter thanking him/me for corneas that two people needed. It made me feel like he is living on in them.
Very sorry for your loss. I love your outlook though, what a beautiful way to remember him. Hope you're doing better and wish you all the happiness in the world.
Rip. I got my sorry excuse of organs up for grabs after I'm doa. But, if they can help anyone for even a few days, I'd want my loved ones on this mortal coil for as long as possible.
Damn….❤️🔥
That is exactly what happened to my father as well♥️ if anyone received navy blue cornea transplants from MI in 2013, I hope you have perfect vision
@@kl3186corneas aren't the part with the color
My dad did his surgical residency at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, so he knew how important real bodies are for medical training. He donated his body to Emory medical school, and near his death at 96, as his caregiver I carried the paperwork with me at all times so that when he passed away arrangements could immediately be made. While the school made use of Dad’s body we had a memorial service, and when the school was finished they cremated and returned him to me for burial. When I picked up his cremains I learned he had been used for emergency room training. Appropriate, since he was an ER surgeon for many years.
Your father sounds like an amazing man ❤ Also a good point about not getting the body back for some time. My friend's mom's body was kept for almost 2 years and she didn't realize that was a possibility, she felt like it delayed her grief process so people should consider that.
As someone with stage 4 neuroendocrine cancer and a genetic abnormality that has helped me survive much longer than I should, I've chosen to donate my body to the teaching hospital where I've been receiving treatments. They're actually excited about the possibility, seeing as how neuroendocrine cancer is highly uncommon and doesn't act like other cancers, and my liver is extremely efficient, being able to process narcotic painkillers like they're candy and function at normal levels even with only 20% of it not being tumors. I'm hoping my donation will be able to help people both understand neuroendocrine cancer better, and perhaps lead to genetic understanding and implementation of my liver's strength to others.
Hell yeah, friend. Live the rest of your life with joy, we appreciate your selflessness here. ❤❤❤
Sending you lots of love, brother.
Hope you get sufficient time for everything you still want to do
I'm so sorry to hear you have had to deal with this. Well done on still being so brave and selfless. Sending love and light and virtual hugs.
That's very generous of you. Sending love to you and your family. I wish you peace in your final days.
Thanks to John Oliver for making the decline of the human race so entertaining.
Technically only 331.9 million members of the human race's decline.
Ja no bullshit
*the decline of North America
this is dumb
@@TigSuEurope is getting shit aswell, but definitely not as fast as murica
I think that clip with the woman meeting the family of the woman whose heart saved her life was the first time this show made me cry. Wow.
jesus yeah. that was incredible.
That hit way too fast. One moment he's making jokes 2 min later I'm crying.
@Toonox Me too. But it was an easy transition. I was already near tears laughing at the previous joke about the teeth, and they were released with the emotional impact of that clip with the heart recipient..😂😭
Yeah once she pulled out that teddy bear I was crying
That moment got me, too. Absolutely incredible. Also the fact that humans as a species have figured out how to take organs from one body and put them in another body while retaining their original function is truly remarkable. The doctors and surgeons who have dedicated their careers to performing these operations and saving lives have got to be some of the most compassionate people alive.
One of my cousins has cystic fibrosis and was supposed to die in his teens. He was able to get a double lung transplant and is now almost in his late 30s, married and has two kids. God bless that person and their family, their loss helped him gain his whole family. So thankful he’s still around.
My cousin also had cystic fibrosis and had a double lung transplant just before covid. I'm so glad she made it. We hadn't seen each other since we were teens and I finally got to go visit her this past year. She's improving all the time and we are all glad to still have her with us. 🙂
@@kendalbrenneman that’s pretty much exactly what happened with mine! I was going to be in his area on vacation when he told me that we could meet up. He ended up canceling because he got notified about the double lung that was available and he had to go right away for surgery. He felt bad having to cancel but I was thrilled! That has been the best reason I’ve ever gotten for someone to break plans with me and the fact that he’s now thriving it’s even better.
Oh my goodness
Thank you for sharing
So happy for you all!!!
I’m so happy your cousin is doing well, CF is so difficult to live with and my childhood best friend lost her battle with it. I hope your cousin continues to not only survive but thrive in this world.
@@CherryRedBanshee Thank you, me too! I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. My cousin is doing well, thank goodness. She has been very careful. She recently got news that someone in her neighbourhood who had gotten new lungs around the same time as she did recently passed away, so it's a good reminder to keep up her precautions.
Surgeon here: I’ve never seen a more realistic interaction with a patient’s family than that demo video. Most patients and families are reasonable, but 10% of the time they are exactly like this.
I used to volunteer in an anatomy lab where a lot of bodies were gifted for science, and a few grandparents definitely ended up in a abandoned factory with rebar shoved in their chest as part of realistic special forces medic training.
The worst was a 16-year-old girl, who died of a brain cancer, donated her body to study the cancer that killed her, but there were no active studies being done and her donation was rejected by a neuroscience. Unfortunately, we ended up using her skin and flesh for suture practice Because it was deemed too distressing for students to use her as an anatomy cadaver. Maybe I’m soft, but defleshing a 16 year old girl with painted fingernails was the worst experience I’ve ever had, and I’ve seen some bad shit as a surgeon
No, you have a heart.
There's so much under the surface isn't there, beyond just the flesh of our bodies after we're gone. I hope you always remain soft regardless of all you see 💔
Being soft isn't a thing to be ashamed of. In fact, I admire that you were able to retain that sympathy despite your line of work.
They have a point. The doctor in the video did act exactly like a vulture.
My mom was a nurse and I could never do what she and you do. Thank you for having a stronger constitution than I.
My sister died about 10 years ago now, and I must say the cards and letters we get sent from some of the donor recipients are very comforting. We got quite a few at the start, which really show the difference it's made to some of their lives. Some donors are still writing to us about life events such as college graduations, marriages and children. As recently as last year one woman who got her lungs sent a picture of her first baby.
My favourite part of all this was her eyes allowed 2 blind people to see one for the first time, and another getting her sight back, and reading the thank you letters from them.
Obviously, it's all anonymous and we can't contact them, but they can relay letters to us.
Niamh died of Meningitis at the age of 15, so literally every part of her was healthy and ideal for donations. She had given consent in her work vehicle permit and I'd urge everyone to tick the box on their driver's licence form.
And now I'm crying! Just knowing the recipients can show you how a loved one lives on through them is beautiful amd comforting in some way.
This is heartwarming. Thanks for sharing.
Wow. I'm on a waiting list and I'm not sure whether to send news or not if and when an organ (heart) turns up.
I'll have to ask. As a donor, I would be so happy to hear back from a recipient.
I was/am a donor but unfortunately am now in need of a heart.
All we can say is talk about organ donation. It's seems so obviously evident to have a donor's card on you if ever anything happens to you.
But as he says - It's too late once in the hospital. Talk about it while it's time. It may be a "tabou" subject in the USA, but here in Europe it's quite natural to tell your friends and family that you are an organ donor.
My uncle received a liver from a donor in 2019 and I think about their family often. I wish I could thank them. My little cousin gets to have her father in her life for longer thanks to that donor.
We never knew the name of the man that died so that my dad could have a new healthy lung. It gave him several more years of life. I would tell his family their loved one’s gift gave my dad the second chance he needed to develop a better relationship with his kids and arrive at a sort of redemption as a result. I’m very thankful for that gift today, and I send that feeling to the family whenever I think about it.
I’m an organ donor, and donated stem cells to my brother who had cancer. Curing his cancer was the best thing I’ve done since giving birth. There was lots of counseling from people at the hospital making sure I wasn’t being coerced. Coerced! I was so honored to be about the only person in the world to be able to save my brother’s life!
That’s great, I’m glad to hear your brother is doing well!! But they definitely needed to make sure you weren’t being coerced just because you are his family. You’d be shocked at the amount of parents who have second children just for the purpose to save their first sick child, it’s actually genuinely disgusting behavior.
@@acrollieyes, and it's also a good example of how important we regard bodily autonomy except when it comes to pregnant women. Can't make me do anything with my body to save a life bc it's my body my choice, but then say oh unless that "life" is a fetus depending on your body, then all of a sudden you don't get bodily autonomy. Ridiculous.
@@PinkSakuraBunnie Brilliant point!
Yay!!!❤
I'm in the process of donating a kidney to a swedish friend I know from the internet. We met for the first time during compatibility testing last month. Good news! We're compatible! The donation happens this february!
Stories like this make me smile. I work with two transplant programs on the West Coast, and the waiting lists are heartbreaking to see.
Thats amazing! Thank you for the good you are putting into the world!
You are wonderful! Best wishes and a fast recovery for you and your friend
Best of luck to both of you!! If you post a gofundme I’ll gladly donate.
You're amazing for doing that and I will be crossing all my appendages that things go perfectly for both of you
I'm a medical student and I've worked with more human cadavers than i can count. I can't put into words how incredibly grateful I am to the donors and their families. It's such an invaluable learning tool to be able to work with real human tissues, and my first teacher in this field really hammered it home for me - these aren't just specimen to work with, they're my patients and they deserve the same dignity and respect that i give to my living patients.
Thank you for commenting and sharing your experience as a medical student! My husband and I have both filled out the paperwork to have our bodies donated to the medical school in our city. I love learning and love the idea that, even in death, I can still be a part of advancing knowledge to the betterment of medical training and care. Now I'm going to look back over the paperwork to make sure the Wake Forest School of Medicine will be the actual recipient of my corpse!
@@mariekeithbleuste8691 thank you for making that choice! I'm sure future Wake Forest students will be appreciative of your gift!
I'm hoping it's ok to ask this if not, just tell me it's inappropriate.
Have you ever had a cadaver that were missing organs?
@@nyxskids yep! one day we were trying to find the gallbladder on one lady and all we could find was the clips they leave behind after they do a gallbladder removal surgery. it's fairly common.
@@samwarren2850 cool thanks! I'm looking to sign my body over to the local teaching hospital/university and I don't have a gallbladder funny enough. It's good to know missing that won't keep me from donating.
I just have to say that I spent well over a decade being a medical training actor (portraying roles like "Woman With Migraine," "Pregnant Woman Who's Still Smoking," "Woman Getting Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer," etc), and we really did have backstories like John was joking about! That's totally accurate! Our characters were based on real patient files, and we were given whole personal histories to learn so that we could better interact with the med students and answer their questions. I loved that work, and I thought the actress in the video was fantastic!
Those roles sound hilarious in a list like this! Thank you for your work, though. We as a whole race of people need to know how to handle tough situations before they occur to prevent stupid mistakes being made or regretful things being said.
The real backbone of Grey's Anatomy right here.
“The haunting memories of lost love. May I? Lights? Our eyes met across the crowded hat store. I, a customer, and she a coquettish haberdasher. Oh, I pursued and she withdrew, then she pursued and I withdrew, and so we danced. I burned for her, much like the burning during urination that I would experience soon afterwards.”
Kramer, Seinfeld.
@@GreenForce82Gonorrhea!
@@GreenForce82 Yup, it was exactly like that. :D
Just take a moment to appreciate that Jesus organ donation ad though. Everything from the guy being like "😬 Yeah, awkward timing, nobody want's to talk about death, but-" and then Jesus ending the convo with a simple "Well of course I'd do it, I'm Jesus!"
Thats so jesus. What a dude. Love that guy.
A man in my city became famous when he found out one of his customers needed a kidney, and he immediately went to find out if he was a viable donor. He gave the man his kidney, and he then gave organ donors a discount at his permanent food stall.
He passed away a few years ago and his assistant took over the stall, keeping up the organ donor discount, and the seating area beside the stall is plastered with pictures of the original owner with organ donors and he has a stand on the counter with info on becoming an organ donor, and ways to donate to local groups for organ transplants.
I lost my wife on March of 22. She was a donor. Her donations have helped my grief in so many ways. She's helped restore 3 people vision. That's the ones I i know about. I wish it was easier for Donor families to find out what the donations are used for. I understand anonymity. The eye bank provided me with the information after a request. They didn't disclose any names. Thank you for doing a piece in this subject. If you're not a donor already, please consider becoming one. You could be saving lives and making people's quality of life better from beyond the grave. That's pretty amazing to me! I love you Rebecca Lynn Smith. Thank you for your selfless donations. I miss you so much.😢
Just curious, and this may be a silly question, but how did she help people regain sight 3 times if we only have 2 eyes? Was it her eyes themselves or something else?
thank you and your wife for donating, as a heart recipient, you can’t imagine how grateful we are. ♥️
@@MisterChubz The eye can be used for two purposes upon donation, corneal transplant and sclera (the white part) replacement. A careful practitioner can like utilize a single donation for both purposes.
Sorry for your loss 😔
My uncle died in 2019 of lung cancer after being a chronic smoker for many years, and my dad (his next of kin) was contacted by a donor agency. Idk if any other parts of my uncle’s body were good enough, but as far as I’m aware, his corneas were good enough to be used to help others.
My birthday is March 22nd and I am an organ donor, I also work in the medical field as a C-MA and I'm currently in college (again) getting my RN license/degree. I'll be thinking of her when I celebrate my birthday 💕 She made a selfless decision to donate, I bet she was a wonderful woman.
I work at one of the largest transplant hospitals in the us. I get Healthcare through work. Despite working at a huge transplant hospital my health insurance does not cover being a living donor. So would cost me over $100,000 to donate a kidney. That's pretty fucked up. Good job America
My partner looked into volunteering a kidney to a stranger in need several years ago, we stopped once figuring out how much it would cost us
I took myself off the donor list because of the incompetence of the system.
Th8s was why I took myself off the list as well
Whaaaat? You have to pay to become a donor, that's ridiculous! John Oliver should've mentioned this too. I think the system should be changed to register to opt out instead of opting in...we should all be automatically donors.
@@blackbird7842 This thread is about people who donate one of their kidneys while they are still alive so a stranger in need can live another ten years. Making it the automatic default may raise a few polite objections.
That heartbeat teddybear is literally the sweetest thing I've ever seen and I love it immensely
❤❤❤❤❤ 🧸
As someone who's life almost ended at 17 due to hepatic failure from a mitochondrial disease I am 1000% donating whatever useable body parts I have to people who need them.
If Amazon ever wanted to donate their services, setting up their tracking software for transplants would be their opportunity.
Exactly!!!
It's not just software, though. It requires the delivery service to have the specific infrastructure.
They don't want to, they never would.
Seems like way too much of a liability for a company like Amazon. You don't want just anyone handling organ donations. They may, however, consider helping to create a better software tracking system or at the very least be used as a model for a new one.
You could almost call it... a *prime* opportunity.
(I'll go away now.)
I decided to sign up after Drivers Ed in highschool. The instructor was an old man, (I’d like to say early 70’s?) and he told us about his wife who had passed, and how she had donated her organs. He showed us the letter he was sent from a family whose daughter got her eyes and was able to see fully. It was clearly important to him, and I signed up when I got my license.
My driving instructor told us his wife signed up and they told him her body was unfit do to an STD didn’t tell us which one, but thats how he found out he had it.
Not the same story but kind of interesting
Corneas didn't "make 3 people see". Whole eyes can't be transplanted. Sorry dear but your teacher was uninformed.
@@katiekane5247 Partial corneas can be. You're the uninformed one.
My 23 year old son has an autoimmune disease that will eventually require a liver transplant. I worry so much he won’t get one on time. Thank you for signing up to be a donor.
@@rebeccamouse9294I hope he does. ❤😊
I’m in the hospital now, waiting on heart surgery later this week to keep me alive until I can hopefully one day receive a heart transplant…
I’m a huge fan and I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard at an opening of this show before.
Informative, important, and hilarious.
You are an absolute treasure, and much appreciated.
Love and greetings from Kansas City tonight 🌻
Best of luck! ♥️
Hope you are recovering well~☆
May you have a full anf speedy renewal of body, mind and spirit. May you be able to exercise as much free will as possible. May those tending to you be strengthened as well.
❤
Hope you're doing well, and that they deliver that new heart to you in something other than a scotch-taped styrofoam cooler, in a hospital free of starving golden retrievers!
Best of luck my guy. I got my heart transplant in 2019. I played video games the whole time when I was waiting in the hospital. I hope you have something to “get lost” in while you wait. Sending positive vibes.
I just got my kidney transplant that I have needed since I was 12, on December 21, 2023, just a few weeks after my 34th birthday. I hate to see how often kidney transplants are a dehumanizing punchline in TV shows and movies. really amazing to see this covered with a healthy mix of dark humour and really sincere coverage on the topic, but that's classic last week tonight isn't it?
Imagine being a patient in need, going through surgery, and then finding out that deep inside you, you had John Oliver’s heart.
If you’ve read about the characteristics that come with some transplants, it would prove an interesting life to observe.
And then you discovered that your nose started growing until you resembled a hybrid human / toucan ?!?!?!?
John's heart is destined to be eaten by a golden lab
💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
@@roarmalf Priceless!
🤣🤣🤣
That angry wife needs an Oscar.
Thank you!!
Can I just say, the writers of this show deserve a Nobel. This show maintains speed with comprehensiveness like none other can
Right?! They deserve all the awards. Brilliant
As an Amazon worker myself for over half a decade, I’ve seen plenty of expensive things in squished boxes, some with tire marks on them, and things in California that are addressed to Florida and somehow ended up here, but I have yet to see a human organ squished run over, and sent via airplane a thousand miles in the wrong direction. Maybe we need Amazon Prime Body.
in austria every person is automatically registered as an organ donor, but what i think is even cooler is that if an organ becomes available at a hospital and the reciever is an old person who can't get to that hospital, the paramedics drive them there, all paid for by insurance. there is a lot wrong with our health care system, but sometimes it's pretty great
You mean people can ride ambulances and receive emergency care without going into crippling debt? Must be nice.
The ride is standard in every country with a functioning healthcare system.
Edit: to the people telling me "America" doesn't have a functioning healthcare system. 1) I know. 2) Do you guys realize the USA aren't the only country in America, in the internet or in the world?
@@NavaSDMB key term being "functioning healthcare system"
@@NavaSDMB America can be accused of a great many things, but having a *functioning healthcare system* is NOT one of them. 😔
@@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460ours is functioning if you can afford the Tolls required to access the express lane level of care. Otherwise it's the lane your employer decided your worth or the only public roads allowed for retired workers and workers who don't make enough money to get health care privately.
I’m an ER doctor. That training video was extremely accurate. Probably half of conversations go something like that
Wow.
See my comment above
My dad was #6 on the list for a heart when he died. It would have been nice for him to have known he could have registered in other places. It could have saved his life and saved me from becoming an orphan at 13.
I am so sorry! And as an organ recipient, who was also not told they could multicast, ( in fact it was discouraged), your story breaks my heart. I am also so angry that some doctors decision basically ruined a big part of your life! It took me a LOOON time to research and "fight the system". I was gaslit by nephrologist, and dialysis centers who would have loved to keep me sick, suffering on dialysis forever. Because I was their cash cow. So now that I barely scraped by, and listed out of state, and yes I did get a kidney transplant, I now advocate, and basically tell all dialysis patients the TRUTH! I hand out brochures that I made, and I give them information, on how to Geta transplant out of state. I do if for the ethics and principal of the matter. I do it forepeople like your dad, who came so close to receiving a new heart!. And I do it as a FU to the very broken allocation system.
My stepdad lived 14 years with a heart transplant, and my stepmom is still alive today after receiving lungs over a decade ago. That is 25 years of additional life experiences that no one would have had if it weren’t for organ donations.
Spain has been the lead in organ donation in the world for more than 20 years. We have opt-out system but the experts say than the main factor to the success is the organization of the whole program. When Croatia asked consultation to Spain about the program, they became the 2nd woldwide in organ donation.
The Netherlands just started an opt-out system for organ donation as well, because organ donation there was around 10% prior to the implementation of this policy.
You're talking about 'presumed consent' and those countries that employ that consider citizens' bodies as a national treasure.
What are they doing right? I’m curious what the US could do to make our more effective.
Spain actually has fewer donors per death than the U.S. and a lower transplant rate than the U.S. that’s because they (and no country) actually relies on the Opt-Out law and always follow family decision. The U.S. has opt-in and relies on the registered donor’s decision rather than family choice…unless the possible donor isn’t registered. No nation has higher rates than the U.S.
Tell that to China. Nobody is better than China. Finding out why is horrifying though
Multi-organ transplant recipient here - the option to list someone on more than one transplant list didn't surface in my case until it was nearly too late. I spent 4 or 5 years waiting for desperately needed organs, and the only thing that kept me from dying during the wait was the family member of another long-suffering child in need of new organs. This mother pulled my own mother aside after seeing that we had been waiting so long and basically said, "Listen, I don't know if people know you can do this, but get your kid listed somewhere else if you can." My family did just that and once I had been placed on a new list in another state, I received a donor within a week.
And this was over 20 years ago. So yeah, the organ sharing system we've got now is absolutely ineffective. Any time when the people doing the suffering know more than the people doing the science, there's bound to be trouble.
@@diannworrell106 Ohhhh, my goodness. Through a transfusion? I am surprised and not surprised simultaneously. You're right that getting put on multiple lists seems to violate the principles designed to keep the organ-sharing process fair - before my own transplants, I distinctly recall the public debate over allocation. A lot of people believed organs should go to the sickest patients instead of the closest/easiest patients (to the extent that both types of patients can even be compared).
I will admit that part of me sees the situation as needlessly hopeless regardless of how donor organs are allocated - the entire conversation is moot when those donor organs get misplaced or lost.
Yep. I work in transplant research at a center with a fantastic program. Our patients get transplanted within 2-4 weeks usually. We take organs, transplant anybody.
I'm a doctor and people have said a lot meaner things to me than the woman in the video 😂 I love the acting
In my training I've also met living donors, seen organ procurement from decreased donors, and met recipients before and after surgery. I have the upmost respect and gratitude for donors and families 🙏
My father was an organ donor. Half his heart and also his corneas went to other people. My mother elected to never meet the recipients (she felt it'd make them feel guilty for living when her husband just died), but I like to think that they went to someone with kids, and said kids got to have more time with their mom or dad.
The cornea went to a little girl. I hope her life is going well, she's probably an adult by now.
Half a heart? So some of the ventricles or something?
@@VioletEmerald yep, exactly.
The heartbeat. God, I was instantly in tears. I'm an organ donor., have been since it was legal for me to agree to it. This is important to me.
samesies! 2nd time i cried during LWT and both were this year, our beaked boy and his team are on a roll!
I'm surprised they didn't make reference to the special video they made for Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi to promote organ donation. It's a very moving music video starting his cousin Peter Capaldi and it brings me to tears everytime.
In my kinesiology class we had two cadavers. The first two hour lecture was about respect for people who made the choice to leave their bodies to science.
My anatomy class was the same. It was thoroughly emphasized that we should even talk about the cadavers as if we knew them in life/they were a loved one.
Kinesiology is my new word for the day.
I'm about to head back to school and in an anatomy course, there is an option for a cadaver lab. I want to take it because I feel it can add a lot to my understanding; but at the same time, I feel like I would start viewing the human body differently and lose some empathy.
@@TheDancerMacabrethink of it this way, or, I’ll start by asking if you have been to a funeral before, especially one with an open casket. Some people haven’t, less common in some areas than others from my understanding.
My grandpa owned a funeral home, and my buddy is going into a program to learn the trade. 1) cool people to do that, guaranteed job security, and a funeral director/mortuary staff that excels at their job provides a certain comfort to a family that’s absolutely important during that time. Not related at all to your comment, but my grandpa was really good at the “people” side of the business, and idk, seems like they can be this rock of guidance during a rough time that’s typically a bit confusing and stressful for those still living.
Anyway, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. I’m assuming you have the ability to differentiate between real/hallucenation, and this is just a different skill set of that, in a way.
We, as humans, are technically an amalgam of different parts, liquids, chemicals, all that whatnot. But, there’s a certain aspect beyond that in living beings. Humans have consciences, but even other animals are more than the sum of their parts.
I’m sure your brain will be able to filter that information in real-time exactly like you’d need it to. I’d be surprised if learning about how human beings are constructed and out of what will make you view things in a cold, harsh light you’ve never seen them before.
I’d say go for it, and I’m sure if it makes you uncomfortable you can always bail. You definitely won’t get this opportunity to experience this ever again, unless some real weird things happen to happen for ya later in life…..like murder….
@@TheDancerMacabre it's definitely a fine line (though im speaking not from experience, but from conversations with MANY relatives who are physicians). i think ultimately it can actually enhance your capability for empathy and human care/connection; just takes a lot of consistent mental re-affirming as to what you're doing it for, and respect for those who literally gave themselves for the future of medicine and humanity
So I have a cousin that had to have an organ donation when she was 2. She thankfully received it, and she is such a delight. Her parents absolutely adore her, and I could not imagine either of them without her in their lives. Additionally, my brother's roommate just got a heart transplant, and my bro's gf told me the story of how, when she got the call that a heart became available, she broke down crying, saying she didn't want to die (the transplant has been a success and she's now recovering). She is 23/24, and she was so terrified she was going to die that she refused to process it until she was given the good news. I myself am an organ donor so I can give people like these two young women the hope and chance they could live.
My brother got an organ transplant last year. He'd been on dialysis for 3 or 4 years. From what my mom told me, they literally called him a like 5am and told him if he could get there in 3 hours. They had a kidney for him. My family lived 2.5 hours away and my other brother sped the entire way getting there just before 7.
I don't think I've had a bigger slap in the face than having my mom waiting for a kidney and going through the rigamarole of trying to get a donor, only to pass away and have a donor organization reach out less than 24 hours later to try and get her organs. The system is beyond awful
that’s so heartbreaking. so sorry that happened to you
I'm so sorry ❤
@FrogFriend3379 thank you
@jbeta4948 thank you. I'm OK, but these stories are just heartbreaking in general because it's so many people's reality
Can the organs even be donated once the person passes away? Sorry about your loss, that sounds very insulting and cruel of them to do. Vultures.
I’m a veterinary student and we use donated pets for our anatomy course. I am so grateful to get to learn with these cadavers that were once beloved family members. We refer to the cadavers by their names and we give them pats. We get quite attached to them and they teach us a great deal ❤
This comment made me cry in a good way.
Omg do you know how to make sure your pet does that? I’m very pro donating bodies as was my sister who owned my cat before me and I think we’d both love to help the next generation of veterinarians
I have never heard of this - where can we find out more about donating pets?
@@juliathompson101Get in contact with a specific university that has a vet program and call and ask.
You can do the same thing with your own body. For example if you get in contact with KU or UW’s “willed body program” then you can ensure your body goes to them specifically if you die in the right conditions rather than just to general medical research. You can fill out paperwork “willing” it to them specifically.
Good girl!! 😉
Absolutely amazing that they made a 31 minute segment about this subject without mentioning the unbelievably shocking 'Biological Resource Center Inc.' case.
Let's just say it happened in Maricopa County, Arizona, and leave the rest to your imagination, because you really don't want to google it, trust me.
I was already shocked when I heard about the track record of OneLegacy. I work with a hospital in Orange County that has them as their local OPO, so obviously my radar went up on that one.
me before googling it: it can't be *that* bad
after reading Just The Headline: *holy fuck it really is that bad*
As a liver recipient, Thank you. This dialogue and awareness of transplant issues in general is crucial to improving the system and saving lives…like mine. Donors and donor families are heros and people like me are profoundly grateful for the gift they have given us. In my case, I've been gifted 12 years I would not have had absent this great kindness.
My mom was a kidney transplant recipient and my cousin John Seffen was the youngest person ever in the 80’s and the first child to ever receive a partial liver transplant via a partial-liver from an adult donor. His multiple transplant journey is well documented.
I was my mom’s caretaker and med-partner. Thank you for the recognition. People have no idea how many sacrifices we make for our loved ones who are chronically ill ❤
So many feelings at seeing my friend Tonya Ingram on Last Week Tonight. She spent the rest of her life waiting for a kidney transplant that never came. Her story is so important.
I am so sorry for your loss
I’m so sorry for your loss. She deserved better then what she was given. I hope you find healing & peace in your soul 💕✨
I'm so upset that she passed she deserved better than to be treated that way they ought to be ashamed talking to her like that and not helping her out. I'm so sorry for your loss and everyone else that knew her she seems like she was a sharp kind lady in need of compassion and real help.
Sorry for your loss.
It happened to my friend from high school. He was high up on the list but sicker people kept cutting him in line and eventually he got too sick and died too
It sucks the way the world is if our friends were rich they would have been able to have just bought an organ and paid for the surgery all at once in South America.
I would like to know more about Tonya's story, If you don't mind. I feel I can relate to her. I too am a female about her age who fought like hell to get my transplant! I was ready and prepared to talk to congress. I waited fora kidney transplant for almost 9 years here in CA. I never got the call. Well, I did get a call, but they couldn't find a pilot, nor an airplane. So it wasn't offered to me. I somehow scratched and clawed my way to get registered for a kidney in AZ. Thats who called me for a kidney within 1 year. So now I advocate for other people who are still suffering on dialysis, and are uninformed as how to multicast in another state. Because I know how hard it is. Its brutal. I am so deeply sorry for your friend. I wish I could have met her.
When my husband died at 47, 9 years ago, I received a phone call 5 hours later asking if I would consider donating my husband’s tissues, bones and cornea. I said yes and then one year later I received a letter from the NJ Caring Network telling me about all the people my husband helped. A man in Illinois received his corneas and got his sight back. Many others were helped as well by this donation. Because my husband was not the healthiest and it had been so many hours after his death no organs could be used.
I wholeheartedly support organ donations.
Thank you for being kind 💚
We received letters from the Lions Eye Bank. They never give one person both, two people get the gift of sight. We have donated two sons. One in 2000 and another in 2012. The letters we received from bone grafts for spines (eliminating pain) and organ recipients, make healing much easier, especially when they are allowed and encouraged to send a thank letter. In memory of Kyle and Gary M. Hendel. They live on
@@gnomielove7232 I am so sorry for your profound loss. My heart goes out to you. Yes, they do live on while helping others to live better lives.❤️
I worked in a medical center that does organ transplants and knew many patients who received a transplant. It was so amazing to see someone who was getting sicker and weaker get their transplant and regain some of the health and function they had lost. Also the joy of their family members who got more time with them.
This inspired me. I have been looking for a way to use the skills and experience I gained transporting munitions in the military and my education in logistics and supply chain management. Starting a career in the organ & body donations field could be just what I've been looking for!
Yes! Please do this! I am a kidney recipient! I cant begin to tell you how bad the transport system is for organ donation!! You could be the first one with a govt. contract that does this. I would be happy to be a partner with you and teach you all-out organ procurement, UNOS, OPTN, and allocation. Jon Oliver is correct when he said that the only good thing Trump did was to make these new laws for organ procurement. We needed these changes over 40 years ago. Its just that insurance companies wanted to keep people sick,and make a lot of money, also dialysis companies started taking over, and milking Medicare. If you could do something positive like supply chain anf GPS tracking, it could be so simple. I saw my new kidney being cleaned by the surgeon, before I was put under. It was pink and looked good. But it was just in ice in a bucket with some clamps on the arteries and veins. So basically if you can transport ice, then that's all you need. Hearts need no more than 6 hours outside the body, and they are critical, tier 1 A, on the waitlist. Livers, you have to be very sick to be moved up on the wait list. But they come 5x faster than kidneys. Same as lungs and pancreas. A kidney pancreas priority is next highest priority, and last is kidney, because a person can live on dialysis as a bandaid measure. Also the CIT or Cold Ischemic Time outside a body is up to 48 hours on a kidney before it isn't viable any more. I hope I gave you some direction of how to help you with supply chain. I stilldont know why every organ doesn't have a gps system? There should be a "find my organ app" formal gifts of life!
My mother in law donated her while body to science. She told us about it beforehand, and since she eventually chose to end her life with medical assistance , we were able to contact the "pick up" people and have a conversation about what would happen at what time. We had 3 hours with her body since she would not be able to donate any organs due to her cancer. It was a gentle process and I'm still glad she got all of her choices respected.
I'm a retired attorney from Oregon. I had a client dying of cancer and she wanted to go the way of assisted suicide, but her doctor only gave her days to live. I contacted the teaching hospital and specifically put in her will that her body would go there for research. That is one way people can ensure their body is used for science. I did all the work pro bono, BTW, as my last gift to her, her last wish.
@@rabbit251if you put a specific place in your will, will your body absolutely go there? After watching this I want to be sure
@@Ford_prefect_42brad2751 gave an answer to your question in the main comments involving contacting universities
@@Ford_prefect_42 nope
@jjcarter3567 ppl don't really have a say. Some ppl found out their loved one's bodies were being used as targets for tge military to practice on.
Anyone willing to donate their body is ONLY making that choice because of being misinformed
As a Retired Veteran with a Heart Transplant, 3 things are difficult for me to deal with.
1. In the first 5 years since my heart failure (at age 29), between an LVAD and the Heart...the VA has covered all the insurance costs...which has totaled over $14million.
2. Heart Transplants last about 15-20yrs currently.
3. I will never meet my Hero who gave me my life back.
If you believe in an afterlife, that person is waiting to meet you.
@@adde9506 kek
The transplant process is a real struggle that most people won't understand. It's takes a strong mind to go through it. Just having to go through LVAD makes you a boss. I had a patient the other day with a transplanted heart that had hit the 25 yr mark. They're getting really good at managing transplanted hearts now.
Plot Twist: Thats lunatic BS.
wtf... 14mil???
😢 The beating of the daughter's heart did me in. I have a sticker of donor on my id. What a great and eye-opening episode.
We unexpectedly lost my stepmom a year and a half ago. Thankfully she was able to be a donor. She was able to donate both kidneys, her corneas, and tissue. It was the hardest experience I have ever endured but the people at Lifeline of Ohio were absolutely amazing. I am forever grateful to know she was able to save lives even though we no longer have her with us.
The recording of her daughters heart, as a gift, made me burst in to tears. Profoundly moving. I just don't know how I'd deal with that.
I did Niagara falls in flood season.
My dad passed away when we were kids. I discovered years later in family documents that she donated his organs to others, There was a letter from the hospital thanking her and saying that all the organ transplants receivers are well and in good recovery thanks to her and my dad. That was shocking and very emotional. I think it's a waste not to give our organs or your body to science (if you can't donate due to illness, etc.)
I will be eternally grateful for the lady who donated her body for my anatomy class....
I wrote this previous before finishing the video, now after I'm crying and snuffling. My plan is to donate all, or part of my body. (I'm not planning on using it again). If my body can help someone else, have at it (after I'm dead). I'm not religious, but God bless .
26:48 I wasn't expecting to tear up over a john Oliver episode, but here we are 😭💗
Thank you to all of the organ donors out there! I got 20 extra years with my father thanks to a kidney and pancreas transplant.
When you put people that want to profit in charge of this kind of stuff they will lie to keep the money. That's why you need to be public, at least you can see the problems
Yeah I’m way past wanting the current economic system to regulate anything in anyway. That just blatantly doesn’t work. It’s crazy too because capitalism doesn’t have a requirement in the definition to be so unregulated that the consumer suffers massively compared to the corporations, yet here we are.
No way, MaxPalaro! I am your fan! When you will come to Brazil???
Indeed, This is when everything is made commercial and people keep voting to pay less taxes, taxes which should help create a functional society.
Oh yeah. The public government has never been caught doing shady shit
Organ donation would be more popular if some of the millions of dollars each donation nets, were donated to the family of the donor, instead of only going to organ brokers. 🤷♂️
this weeks episode is one of the best from john so far. sharp , rightheously hitting right spots , and a full train ride of using comedic brilliance to inform on it. daymn...was in stitches . reminds me of his old stuff....much love to all .
Yeah there were some nice surprises in the comedy this time. Loved the empty box of teeth, and the "passive aggressive" comment about the disembodied heads lol
The crowd when John pulled that box from under the desk, I was right there with them lol
I am a body transporter, and weekly I am taking several bodies to universities for their body donation programs. Specifically, Ohio State University and Wright State University here in Ohio.
If you are wanting to sign up to have your body donated, please research the universities in your state. This way, you can guarantee your body will be used for real medical science research and training. I can't speak for all university body donation programs, but they are amazing. The bodies are used for future surgeons, doctors, nurses, case studies, etc. They can also be used for calamity training for first responders, police, military, and civilians for when natural or man-made disasters happen.
The universities use the bodies for these purposes, and when they are done, they are cremated free of charge and can be sent back to the family, or buried on-site at the university. Many do annual Remembrance Day ceremonies inviting the family and friends of those donated their bodies.
I once looked into a university body farm for forensic studies in my state. Unfortunately, I live too far so my family would have to pay for transportation. I'm considering setting up a special account for this despite having very little resources. It seems to be the best option to ensure that I do not leave my family with any financial burden, and I am comfortable knowing what will happen.
@@dwanashawnsame. Donation is costly
Didn't the family that donated grandma's body in this method learn that grandma's body was used to test tank ammunition?
How are corpses used in calamity training? Wouldn't mannequins do?
@@HaldaneSmithmaybe for canine training, I guess
25:26 I won’t lie, my heart rose to my throat when I saw him pull out the box. I 110% believed there were teeth in that box 😅😂😅😂
same here! LOL
Me too 😅
Of course! He's always buying something crazy like creepy dolls or the jock strap from the Gladiator movie!😅
I'm glad I wasn't the only one convinced that they'd actually gone and done that. Also rather glad they didn't, as it seems an odd reason to spend budget money when it could be saved for another year-end explosion or an informational video advert about a chronic disease using big name actors. I would not be very happy knowing they'd spent money on human teeth, even at such a comparitively low cost.
I literally mouthed _Nooo_ when he grabbed the box, I was in denial, I'm not sure if I thought it was going to be empty or not. I hoped it was a joke, but you can never quite know with John Oliver.
Thanks to watching this segment, I did some looking to see if, as a type 1 diabetic, I can donate organs (I can’t donate blood, unfortunately) and it turns out I can!
Newly registered organ donor, here. A true thanks, John.
Right now feeling very grateful for being a healthcare worker in Brazil, where we have an universal free and public healthcare that had an unified queue for transplants nationwide that is not affected but money or social status - and that also has severe and strict laws about donation of bodies and organs for study purposes.
The only thing my aunt asked when her husband died suddenly 9 years ago and she was approached about organ donation was “Is his body going to look normal in the casket?” They said yes and they took pretty much everything they could. The parents of a 4 year old girl who needed an organ donation went to meet my aunt and she said she felt better about his death after that.
Yeah that is sometimes the biggest worry for families
That is something that a funeral home can usually handle well with careful embalming and restorative work.
@@Tibbles11While true that's what they care most about, it's also kinda frustrating for me that people care about that more than the life of someone else. While it would be nice for the closure can't you say goodbye and then they harvest from the body and you don't need to look at him again and that's okay?
My wife is a 63-year-old orchestra teacher with polycystic kidney disease. After an entire career spent trying to keep her programs alive in the schools where she’s worked, she’s facing the challenge of keeping herself alive. Orchestra is generally at the top of the list of programs cut when funds are low. She and I both forgot to get rich during our working lives. Navigating the transplant system is pretty daunting. You made an excellent summary as usual. It’s even more complicated down in the labyrinth. She feels pretty disposable a lot of the time.
I hope that your wife and you are able to navigate the transplant wait list. Blessings to her for all her contributions in the education, especially orchestra. She’s touched thousands of lives in that career. Blessings to you both. ❤
Wishing you the best of luck!
Please thank her for bringing the beauty of music to kids like I was.
One of my fondest memories of orchestra was how our bow strings would move up and down together. It gave me the feeling of being a part of a beautiful flowing wheat field and reminded me how everyone literally has a part to play in our unity. ❤️
My dad has PKDII and received a kidney transplant 20 years ago. He's doing great. I hope your wife gets her new shiny kidney!!
I have poly cystic kidneys and im only 16 (it is genetic my mom has it)
When I was in college for massage therapy, the class attended one of those paid viewings at the cadaver lab at a local university, which is open to the public twice a year for just such occasions.
While most of the university students at the cadaver lab were aspiring dentists (gross anatomy is mandatory for dentistry), I found that viewing and handling cadavers up close really added to my understanding of human anatomy and physiology, versus images in a textbook, or just feeling soft tissues over the skin. It was awesome, and I'd totally go again. The experience was excellent for deepening my understanding of the scope and scale of what's under my fingertips.
"It's getting a little heavy in here, ya doing okay?" Should be the new Last Week Tonight catchphrase, lol
The girl who recorded the heartbeat of her donated heart as a gift for the mother is a saint and a genius. I just can't find high enough praise for how thoughtful, loving and sensitive her action was.♥
Major credit to Kate for being a donor and saving a life and to Alyssa for giving such a thoughtful gift and caring enough to go meet and thank the family.
That gift was so thoughtful, it was an act of genius. Now Kate's mother can listen to her daughter's heart whenever she wants. A very important part of her daughter is still alive.
I'm a recipient in wait for a heart. I think that is a very "gore" idea to give the sound of your/her heart ! Each and every one to his own, but I would hate to have a teddy bear with that sound.
@@user-oe1mb9hu9iI think the original purpose of those bears was to record the mother's heartbeat and place in the crib to soothe tetchy babies, so actual mom could get some much needed sleep every now and then.
Currently a university student but in highschool i was incredibly lucky and was able to be there for a dissection of a human donor (by a medical school of course). There really arent words for how amazing it is, and its what made me want to go to uni to be able to do medicine. Ill forever be greatful for the people who donated their body, there really is nothing like it.
Fucking hell John, and congratulations. That clip of the heartbeat teddybear genuinely brought me to tears. Well done John, and well done writers and researchers.
It’s not often John gets choked up, but the tone in his voice after the gift of Kate’s heartbeat was as real as it gets.
Well, he's British, not a monster. :-)
I was at work while listening to do this. Was not expecting to be in tears at work.
That teddy-bear clip was so incredibly heartwarming, I legitimately sobbed a little. What an absolute sweetheart, both puns partially intended.
I received a liver about 3 weeks prior to this video. Forever thankful to the donor family.
My mother and I have a genetic condition, and are in the willed-body program at a medical school in our state. We're hoping to help future students better understand the condition ❤
Glad to see Oliver going for another topic most shows wouldn't touch.
Oliver wins awards year after year and you would think others would try to copy him.
Republikkkans are the ones who made the RACIST method of blacks not getting a fair place on the kidney waiting list...
We love him for it.
Coincidentally, the German version of LWT did an episode on organ donations just a couple of weeks ago.
@@vl2809I'm sure John Oliver is just sitting around watching German and Dutch youtube channels to find out what he wants to cover next!
Can I just say that I find it amazing that a comedy show (technically) has more information and more reason that most news sources? I feel like this is the true spiritual successor to The Daily Show when John Stewart was on board.
John Oliver hates it when people say this, but it's true. Despite his protestations that he's nothing more than a court jester, what he is doing is JOURNALISM. It's funny, but it's also hard news like few outlets deliver.
Sure, except it's a weekly show with a completely different format, but other than that...
@@myronholy2999 dude at least remove the share id if you're gonna spam links everywhere. it's freakin amateur hour with these bots.
My father had 3 transplants while he was alive and I will be forever grateful to those that donate, and for the loved ones that have to answer all of the medical questions immediately after a donor dies to see what they are able to use. Unfortunately his condition made him unable to donate anything when he died, but I hope I will be able to save someone else’s life after I die just like someone did for him❤
Blood donation's a great thing, too. Grew out and donated my hair recently, too, after losing a loved one to cancer. She didn't live long enough to require a wig, which is something I feel comforted in knowing she would've preferred if asked now, but it's such a simple way to do something that can provide some valuable comfort.
A late family friend donated his body to science and education; from what I understand, his wife was upset and confused by this, as it wasn't apparently a conversation they'd had in sufficient detail beforehand. Great fellow, and a treasure of a person. Participated in medical trials in his eighties for the simple reason that it was something beneficial he could do. A great guy, and a real role model for me.
The whole system is broken, but it's a system that really needs to be fixed. It can aid in miraculous things, if we collectively band together and make that happen.
Been in dozens of adult and pediatric ICU Family Lounges and Consultation Rooms over the years for discussions such as these. *That training video is incredibly accurate.* Doctors and OPO employees are the recipient of so much verbal abuse from grieving families, but it doesn't make it any easier. America as a whole doesn't do well talking about death and being ready for what comes after. We would do well to normalize that conversation earlier in life.
I'm gonna touch you lil bro
@@beavercontrol1743the fuck?
My brother went in for outpatient surgery at the age of three. I remember missing days worth of school (I was in the second grade) and still not having any answers as to why he hadn’t woken up. Three days after he went under (and three days of no explanation from several doctors) a woman approached my parents asking what they’d decided to do with his organs, and when they responded with horrified confusion she just said, “The doctor hasn’t talked to you yet?” and then walked away without another word. That’s how my mom and dad found out their three-year-old son wasn’t coming home. I don’t envy that job but I sure as hell know that isn’t the way to go about doing it.
@lawrencetchen - It is clear that you know just how complex this topic is. My experience was at the bedside as a pediatric ICU nurse who cared for many, many donors and recipients as well as with our local OPO. As a matter of policy, I did not discuss organ transplantation with donor families unless they spontaneously and specifically brought it up, at which point I advised them that it was an option and that there would be someone arriving soon to speak to them. There is so much more to this topic beyond the ranting of John Oliver done for comedic effect. His ignorance of the process is profound.
@@wickedcabinboyI see you here all over these comments and you clearly have some kind of specific opinion... Just post it on main so we can see what you're getting at??
Two days from now will be the 8-year anniversary of my father's death. We could not afford to bury or cremate the body because my family lived fairly close to the poverty line at that point. An organization contacted us after my father was declared brain dead, and promised his body would be used for science and offered to cremate him after and return us the ashes. When we got my father back, which only took a month or two they included a pamphlet that talked about several of the possible scenarios that my father's body may have been used for. At the top of the list was, and I kid you not, "ballistic science" and that is just as fucked up as you can imagine it is. "Science" is not always "medical science." Do your research. Know your facts. Be prepared.
This video is good except for that it needed to tell people how to withdraw from this system. I'm a pretty isolated person and not at all confident that my wishes would be followed through properly, so I actually would love some advice on how to withdraw from this entirely.
If you don't actively sign up to have your body donated for science, you never enter this system, so you don't have to withdraw. However I don't think there are currently good options to control what your body is being used for, should you decide to donate it. I guess the best you can do is research the exact company you want to donate your body to thoroughly and make sure they only use it for things you would be ok with @@kitcoffey7194
@@kitcoffey7194 Lol why dont you bury your money with you while you sre at it. In most civilized nation you sre automatically a donor and can choose to op out, in the us you are alredy out better to bury yourself with everything you have rather that give somethign to someone in need.
and you only got said pamphlet afterwards? this says about everything.
but I suppose in the US extensive research is necessary to see how all those school children, teachers and staff are killed daily by mass shootings.
I may be a heartless dickhead but “ballistic science”, if It is what I think it can be very important as well and I don’t really see an issue with doing that to a donor.
I certainly wouldn’t have a problem with that, nor would I have an issue with my body being in that weird museum thing.
The clip of Alyssa the recipient of the heart transplant was really moving, made me cry
Not a Pres. Trump fan, but kudos to John/his staff for giving credit where credit is due. We need more of this.
Agreed. This just confirms why President Trump needs to be re-elected. He was a brilliant President and is rescuing this country. We need him back to finish the mission of making America great again. Completely agree with you.
I lost my wife in 2012 while she was on the liver transplant list. If we had insurance that included transplant centers in Florida she would probably be alive now because they have more donors due to no helmet laws for motorcycles. At one time she was number two on the list here in California but she didnt make it. As the system is you have to tread a fine line of being sick enough but not too sick (and therefore a poor candidate for surgery). The system leaves a lot to be desired but I would plead with everyone to be a donor and to talk to your kids about being donors
Especially with liver donations. You can be a living donor and your liver should recover completely with time as it is the only organ that is completely capable of regeneration. You don't need motorcyclists to kiss asphalt, healthy living people can step up and save the lives of those who need a liver
I feel for your loss and sympathise as seeing someone fade away while waiting every day for a life saving all to me made would be heart breaking.
Though I would also say that asking for donors when they are expected to do it for free with little compensation in a country that their out of pocket costs should something go wrong after the donation essentially devalues the person doing the donation. A thumbs up and a thank you would not make up for their potential loss of income or other complications received from their charitable act.
I also know that when money is involved it invites the worst society has to offer, the problem is governments are not great at regulation as money always gets in the way and makes it a all or nothing equation.
Yet if proper regulation was to be put into place and there was full transparency for legal compensation of to live donors, then the list would suddenly shrink as the wealthy patients would afford to go though the process and the poorer patients would have less people to compete with for the the more traditional organ donations.
And yes to prevent self abuse it would be easy to include in the process a mental health check of the people signing up for compensated donations (at the paying patients expense) to ensure that the person providing the organ is doing so from a stable environment for the right reasons and are not being forced to do it via underhanded or even criminal reasons.
The TLDR: Compensating for live organ donations would work with proper regulation and yes they would raise the usual questions of a two tired society (but that would exist regardless) the large influx of organs would also protect the lives of those who are on waiting lists and this is more then reason enough to make it legal with proper regulation.
Organ donation should be opt out not opt in.
@@jackthompson6296hell no. That's beyond unethical. One step away from making Soylent Green a documentary
@@jackthompson6296some countries have this
“Which is just as bad as it sounds” might as well be the motto for this show.
Nailed it again, Jon Oliver! Thank you!
Just registered as an organ donor. Thank you again, John Oliver.
The heartbeat recording in the build a bear was one of the sweetest/most tragic things ive heard in a while, what a story.
I was not prepared to cry like that first thing on a Monday morning
When my husband died I donated his body to a company in Tennessee (I live in Kentucky but he died in TN) they were great! They sent me letters telling me how his gifts were used. It was immensely comforting
the teddy bear with the heartbeat is such clever and thoughtful gift. wow.
I started crying when at the heartbeat recording. What a profound, precious gift.
rich people jumping in front of the lists by design and getting organs much faster than other human beings is just the icing on the cake - and people genuinely believe there isnt a class-system with one deeply entrenched powerful owner class that you can only reach by being born into it
It tracks though. Of course they get organs faster then less wealthy people, we're talking about people who look at medical costs as pocket change and would laugh if someone were to show them their own medical bill. This country was built for the people and restructured for the wealthy. When a poor person dies due to a failing medical system no one bats an eye, when a rich person dies the country grinds to a halt and boards are formed to ensure no rich life is ever lost that way again. If ever there is an immortality drug made I guarantee it will cost no less than a million dollars.
Capitalism 🤘
Good thing there's a brain on the Organ Procurement Organisation placard. Which means there's still hope for those people.
@@Robbie_SIgnorance \m/
Hey Steve Jobs wasn't born as rich as he became! He just abused the talents of others and had them worked hellish hours to constantly keep up with a vision that eventually forced his own company to downsize him!
I'm sure he made good use of his new liver when he died from cancer thinking he could heal cancer better than actual doctors!
I am an organ donor, and I legit want my bones to be a classroom skeleton after I die.
And I wouldn't mind doing a backflip in a museum either. 😂
I SAID THE SAME THING!!
I thought the museum looked fun too.
Legit, I almost stepped my coffee out! That’s freaking hilarious!
did you really? because he just repeated a joke from the video@@SarafinaSummers
"Ask a Mortician" and "Order of the Good Death" has covered this pretty well, as well as a bunch of other matters.
I've always thought the families of the deceased/donated organs should receive a considerable portion of the profits from these organ transplant surgeries, which hospitals make 6 figure profits off of. And yet the families don't see a dime of this money.
It’s a problem inherent to capitalism (similar to why husbands no longer pay money to the father of the bride), that any payment of money creates perverse incentives, much like how John Oliver has talked in his Mobile Homes episode about how landlords would raise rent, and tell tenants to donate their blood in order to pay their rent. In this case, it would probably be someone with a bunch of children framing the death of one child in order to get the organ money to pay to feed the other children.
Our system, like all it Iran’s are non-profit, altruistic donation…but the families do receive years of aftercare counseling and support
As a living organ donor, I appreciate that LWT took their critical flashlight and put a spotlight on some of the less savory aspects of organ donation in this country.
John's eyes teared up near the end... I know emotions and decency does not live in the heart but I'd say whoever receives his heart will be lucky. (along with all the other organ recipients everywhere).
Interestingly, hearts DO have neurons (brain cells!) and do NOT need to be nerve-connected to the recipient's brain to work!!
@@SlimWithTheTitledBrimYes, specialized cells in the heart are called pacemaker cells. Truly the human heart is incredible organ!
My sister, my favorite person in the world, is still here thanks to an organ donor. I thank that person and their family every single day for saving her life.
I have a long and varied medical history, and will be dead long before i reach 45 (just turned 38), so I'm donating my body to Michigan State's Body Program. Most of my family matriculated through Michigan State, and this is my opportunity to help teach students there.