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*blood donation and stem cell donation
*blood donation and stem cell donation
*body donation to medical research and education
*body donation to medical research and education
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*making an
advanced
health care directive ("living will")
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*making an
advance
health care directive ("living will")
*making a will or living trust
*making a will or living trust
*life insurance
*life insurance
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*In most countries, there is no upper age limit to being an organ donor. Even very old people (and people with severe health issues) can still have some transplantable organs and/or tissues (Anecdotal example: One of the "Ghost Ship" guild members posted in chat about a deceased relative: ''"He was an organ/tissue donor -- despite being an 81-y/o ex-smoker, he still had goodies for someone else to use [...]."'') And often the recipients are old people, too, or have similar health issues. If you are very old and/or have severe health issues, it is better to be a registered organ donor and let the doctors find out after your death whether your organs and tissues can be transplanted, than not to be a registered organ donor and still have one or two organs that could have saved or improved someone else's life.
*In most countries, there is no upper age limit to being an organ donor. Even very old people (and people with severe health issues) can still have some transplantable organs and/or tissues (Anecdotal example: One of the "Ghost Ship" guild members posted in chat about a deceased relative: ''"He was an organ/tissue donor -- despite being an 81-y/o ex-smoker, he still had goodies for someone else to use [...]."'') And often the recipients are old people, too, or have similar health issues. If you are very old and/or have severe health issues, it is better to be a registered organ donor and let the doctors find out after your death whether your organs and tissues can be transplanted, than not to be a registered organ donor and still have one or two organs that could have saved or improved someone else's life.
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*If you have an organ donor registration and an advance healthcare directive ("living will"), in some countries, care must be taken that there is no conflict between the two. (Organ donorship may require some life-prolonging machines to be switched on a little longer until the organs are removed. If your advance healthcare directive states that all such machines should be switched off immediately, this may conflict with organ donation.) Some countries have laws giving priority to your wish to be an organ donor. In others, it is the other way round, and you have to take care yourself that your advance healthcare directive is written properly to avoid such a conflict. For details, see your country's official organ donation website, your country's websites about advance healthcare directives, and this page's chapter on [[The Keep:Ghost Ship#Advance Healthcare Directives ("Living Wills")|
advanced
healthcare directives ("living wills")]].
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*If you have an organ donor registration and an advance healthcare directive ("living will"), in some countries, care must be taken that there is no conflict between the two. (Organ donorship may require some life-prolonging machines to be switched on a little longer until the organs are removed. If your advance healthcare directive states that all such machines should be switched off immediately, this may conflict with organ donation.) Some countries have laws giving priority to your wish to be an organ donor. In others, it is the other way round, and you have to take care yourself that your advance healthcare directive is written properly to avoid such a conflict. For details, see your country's official organ donation website, your country's websites about advance healthcare directives, and this page's chapter on [[The Keep:Ghost Ship#Advance Healthcare Directives ("Living Wills")|
advance
healthcare directives ("living wills")]].
*If you are an organ donor and want to donate your body to medical research and education after death, that might lead to conflicts as well. It depends non just on the laws of your country, but also on the institute or organization you want to donate your body to. You should read their small print. Some don't accept registered organ donors. Others have no problems with organ donors at all, and give priority to organ and tissue donation for transplantation, and still accept the rest of the body afterwards. There might be others that accept organ donors only if they died in such a way that their organs could not be donated and weren't removed. In some countries, it might even be legally possible that body donation takes precedence over organ donation. You'll have to check the details in each case. See the chapter on [[The Keep:Ghost Ship#Body Donation to Medical Research and Education|body donation]] for more information.
*If you are an organ donor and want to donate your body to medical research and education after death, that might lead to conflicts as well. It depends non just on the laws of your country, but also on the institute or organization you want to donate your body to. You should read their small print. Some don't accept registered organ donors. Others have no problems with organ donors at all, and give priority to organ and tissue donation for transplantation, and still accept the rest of the body afterwards. There might be others that accept organ donors only if they died in such a way that their organs could not be donated and weren't removed. In some countries, it might even be legally possible that body donation takes precedence over organ donation. You'll have to check the details in each case. See the chapter on [[The Keep:Ghost Ship#Body Donation to Medical Research and Education|body donation]] for more information.
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The guild's current description is
The guild's current description is
:''(... by now also know as the "organ donor guild".) - This guild was boarded (not created!), taken over, and renamed by Habitican pirates. When we came in, it had zero members. A real ghost ship! The idea of death-related challenges suggested itself - for example, how to become an organ donor. Now the guild chat is all about organ donation, making a will, making an advance healthcare directive, donating your body to medical research & education, blood and bone marrow donation while still alive, etc. Our organ donor challenges work well and we also usually have one or two other challenges about the other topics. But we could always use more - especially step-by-step guide challenges with lots of useful links! If you have enough knowledge about any of these topics, please feel free to create one!<br />While these are the main topics, you're also welcome to just haunt the ship, rattle your bones here, and carve some eerie messages into the wood!<br />Search terms: organ donation, organ donor, kidney donation, kidney donor, blood donation, blood donor, stem cell donation, stem cell donor, bone marrow donation, bone marrow donor, hair donation, hair donor, wig, volunteering for clinical trials, body donation, body donor, corpse, medical education, medical research, forensic research, death, dying, preparation for death, prepare to die, preparedness, advance healthcare directive, living will, personal directive, advance directive, advance decision, will, testament, intestacy, inheritance, heir, living trust, power of attorney, life insurance, funeral, burial, cremation, obituary, ...''
:''(... by now also know as the "organ donor guild".) - This guild was boarded (not created!), taken over, and renamed by Habitican pirates. When we came in, it had zero members. A real ghost ship! The idea of death-related challenges suggested itself - for example, how to become an organ donor. Now the guild chat is all about organ donation, making a will, making an advance healthcare directive, donating your body to medical research & education, blood and bone marrow donation while still alive, etc. Our organ donor challenges work well and we also usually have one or two other challenges about the other topics. But we could always use more - especially step-by-step guide challenges with lots of useful links! If you have enough knowledge about any of these topics, please feel free to create one!<br />While these are the main topics, you're also welcome to just haunt the ship, rattle your bones here, and carve some eerie messages into the wood!<br />Search terms: organ donation, organ donor, kidney donation, kidney donor, blood donation, blood donor, stem cell donation, stem cell donor, bone marrow donation, bone marrow donor, hair donation, hair donor, wig, volunteering for clinical trials, body donation, body donor, corpse, medical education, medical research, forensic research, death, dying, preparation for death, prepare to die, preparedness, advance healthcare directive, living will, personal directive, advance directive, advance decision, will, testament, intestacy, inheritance, heir, living trust, power of attorney, life insurance, funeral, burial, cremation, obituary, ...''
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The guild's description in the [[
Guilds Guide|
Guilds Guide]] (where it can be found in the subsection [[Guilds_Guide#Supporting_a_Good_Cause|Supporting a Good Cause]]) is shorter:
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The guild's description in the [[Guilds Guide]] (where it can be found in the subsection [[Guilds_Guide#Supporting_a_Good_Cause|Supporting a Good Cause]]) is shorter:
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: ''Do pirate ghost ships support a good cause? They do if they have a "Become an Organ Donor!" challenge and also encourage blood and bone marrow donation (while alive) and body donation to medical research & education (after death). Other topics are making a will, making an
advanced
health care directive, and generally all death-related things you might want to take care of while still alive.''
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: ''Do pirate ghost ships support a good cause? They do if they have a "Become an Organ Donor!" challenge and also encourage blood and bone marrow donation (while alive) and body donation to medical research & education (after death). Other topics are making a will, making an
advance
health care directive, and generally all death-related things you might want to take care of while still alive.''
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*@F. I've read some German articles about how your
Advanced
Health Care Directive (German: Patientenverfügung) and your organ donor card (German: Organspenderausweis) can clash and what you can do to avoid it. (If you google both terms together, a lot of such articles pop up.) In short: If you're braindead and an organ donor, they'll keep your heart pumping until they've removed the organs. If you specify in your
Advanced
Health Care Directive that you don't want any medical measures to prolong your life once you're braindead, you practically forbid that. So you'd have to add some clause that it's ok if and as long as it's necessary for organ donation. (No, I don't have a link yet for a template/example
Advanced
Health Care Directive... but if you write one, you'll probably do some research anyway and you'll find one.)
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*@F. I've read some German articles about how your
Advance
Health Care Directive (German: Patientenverfügung) and your organ donor card (German: Organspenderausweis) can clash and what you can do to avoid it. (If you google both terms together, a lot of such articles pop up.) In short: If you're braindead and an organ donor, they'll keep your heart pumping until they've removed the organs. If you specify in your
Advance
Health Care Directive that you don't want any medical measures to prolong your life once you're braindead, you practically forbid that. So you'd have to add some clause that it's ok if and as long as it's necessary for organ donation. (No, I don't have a link yet for a template/example
Advance
Health Care Directive... but if you write one, you'll probably do some research anyway and you'll find one.)
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Mara the Marine Marauder
Mara the Marine Marauder
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*In addition to wills, don't forget to appoint a Medical Power of Attorney (for medical decisions) and a Durable Power of Attorney (financial decisions). Fill out an
Advanced
Care Directive and give a copy to your MPoA knows where it is. Talk to your family and MPoA about what sort of end-of-life interventions you want. We all want to die at the age of 102 in our sleep with a smile on our face, but unfortunately, that's not how it usually happens.
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*In addition to wills, don't forget to appoint a Medical Power of Attorney (for medical decisions) and a Durable Power of Attorney (financial decisions). Fill out an
Advance
Care Directive and give a copy to your MPoA knows where it is. Talk to your family and MPoA about what sort of end-of-life interventions you want. We all want to die at the age of 102 in our sleep with a smile on our face, but unfortunately, that's not how it usually happens.
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