GotToRollMe wrote on Feb 10
th, 2010 at 4:14pm:
If you haven't seen the movie, "7 Pounds," I'd highly recommend it. It's amazing how you can save someone's life by becoming a donor:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814314/In the case of donating part of your liver (which regenerates), you'd be doing something low-risk (the person on the receiving end takes all the risk) and you'd literally save someone's life (mine, in this case). It makes a big difference between getting on a waiting list and bringing in your own donor.
I watched "Seven Pounds" on a plane somewhere when it first came out, it's an absolutely amazing movie, very thought-provoking, and I felt that the way in which it reworked old literary themes: "fate" in the form of accidents, redemption, atonement, love, how far you would go for someone you truly love, was nothing short of brilliant. Last summer I watched it again with my daughter and immediately thought of you, Mary. The desperate need of someone you know/love for an organ makes you think in very surreal ways: I was driving home tonight and heard on the radio that the designer Alexander Mc Queen was today found dead and that the cause of death seems to be suicide. My immediate thought in a sort of surreal and detached way was "40 years old! Fuck! He could have at least donated his organs first, what a terrible waste". I know, it's an awful way of thinking, but there you go....And of course I feel deeply sorry for him and his loved ones....but that thought came only second.