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i am 19 years, nearly 20. i am starting my sophomore year of college in the fall. after some contemplation, i decided to add my name to the organ donor registry list because i want to help people in any way i can. i calmly told my mother of this decision out of my love and respect for her, and she just went ballistic, going on and on about how stupid and reckless i am, how i don't care for her at all, without letting me get a word in edgewise, now she is simply refusing to speak me, she won't tell me what bothers her about it, so i can't help her understand the concept of organ donation and my decision for it. i feel so hurt and disappointed. i thought she would be proud of me, yet it's as if she hates me; to put it simply, i'm just sad, and shocked, i feel like i did some horrible thing by doing this
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If she wont speak to you send her a letter or email explaining the situation. Sounds like a huge misunderstanding. Something had to makeher explode like that. Obviously you care about her idk why she doesnt see it maybe shes going through bad personal struggles idk. Theres nothing wrong in organ donation i did the same i mean you won'tneed them when you pass away. I hope the lines of communication get cleared between the two of you and begin talking again.
ReplyYour mom is a Jehovah Witness?
I heard they are against donations, mostly blood donations.
ReplyNope, just wildly against organ donation for some unknown reason
ReplyMaybe something in her religion? A lot of times people have blind faith in things and even they can’t explain why they feel so strongly about it. Maybe that’s why she refuses to talk. Because she doesn’t know why herself but it’s just something she believes. Give her time to come to terms to it.
Replyi think you're too young to donate, who knows in the future you would also need them.
ReplyPutting your name on the list means that after you dies your organs will be donated to people who need them. But only after you die.
ReplyI think that may be that that's what my mom thinks, my organs will just be harvested or something. I'll give her time to think I suppose and just see what happens.
ReplyI hope things work out.
ReplyI think what you did is a very brave and amazing thing. Usually when signing up as an organ donor, they will take the certain organ after the donor died, and transfer to the most critical patient at that time. So I don't see that you doing something bad, because it just feels like part of you still living but just in someone else's body. And let's say if you died earlier than your mom, wouldn't she feel like your presence still living? I don't know, between a corpse inside a dirt just resting or a functional part of you still living, I would choose the second too.
Anyway, I think your mom still don't understand or misunderstanding certain part, tell her slowly, or pray that she will change her mind.
ReplyI'm trying. Thank you so much.
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