[honeychile]

Please forgive me for crashing, but I'm also leary about organ transplant, even though I'm a regular blood donor. Just a couple thoughts, though:

-In a partial liver transplant (when a live donor gives part of his/her liver to someone who needs it), the morality rate for the donor is much, much higher than the one who benefited. My brother will need one eventually, and I praise the Lord that we're not tissue compatible! And,

-If anyone in your family has macular degeneration, you may want to contact Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute. They're looking for family based experiments. I'm fairly certain that both the person who has MacDeg and the family members have to donate for this experiment, but you MUST contact the Wilmer first, so they will send their doctor to retrieve the eyes of the dead - you CANNOT have just any doctor remove them. I do know that it's already been proven that, once in the family, there's a tendency towards it. So, if you have MacDeg in the family, you may want to start taking Preservision now, and save as much of your eyesight as possible!