Organ Donation

[WCUgirl]

Well, not a will. A living will or a power of attorney, I guess.

I didn't see anyone else bring this up in the previous posts (although I did only skim), but I know I'm not the only one who has heard this and is curious about it.

I dated a paramedic a few years back, and he used to tell me NOT to be an organ donor. He told that if he arrived at the scene of an accident, if the vic was designated as an organ donor, there is a point where they will determine that if the injury is critical enough, they won't try as hard to save the person as they have to start worrying about harvesting the organs, versus someone who is not an organ donor when they will still continue the life-saving effort. Is this true?

(Yep, I see Jill mentioned that. It would be one thing to come up with that theory on my own, but it's entirely another when I heard it from the mouth of a paramedic. Though he was a jackass....)

I've looked for this on snopes but the only thing a search for "organ donor" brought up was about the tourists waking up in a bathtub full of ice, lol.