The Heartbreaking Reality of Organ Transplant Waitlists | ENDEVR Documentary

My liver transplant birthday is in march 30 15 years

I always heard that if you are an organ donor they do less to save you if you get seriously hurt.

I feel for this young woman Kate because she was unable to find someone who would truly acknowledge her point of view about letting go. It's a really dreadful place to be in your life when your facing endless suffering and where you see peace in dying. I understand her so well I was in her place a few years back I was going through such trauma and complications from what was originally cancer that became ongoing health issues due to the treatments and post-surgery complications. I came to a point of having had enough. I too got the usual "No i won't hear that, u must fight". When you hear that from a loved one you are essentially being traumatized and left to your isolation and suffering. The caring thing to do is to be present for the person to allow them to discuss what they feel. i know this because i was so fortunate to have one friend who not only listened but took their empathy for my suffering and allowed themselves to comprehend through their own experiences what it might be like for themselves in that position while being able to see what i was actually suffering. Not just the symptoms but its total impacts upon my life. How i lost so much, how the pain took away my freedom, how i was struggled to hold on etc etc.

That takes a huge toll on my friend of course. it takes a huge effort to go with someone when you truly listen to them, and we shared that pain together also. We talked through all the fears all the suffering….everything. What that did for us both was profound in so many ways. It's hard to articulate it all but let me say it like this; because she was able actually reach the point of feeling what i did and understanding my pain, she was able to say, "its ok if you need to go i now understand". To hear those words from her heart as she looked deeply into my eyes was like receiving the euthanasia pills and knowing I could go whenever i needed but never using them because just one person got where I was. That, as I said, had profound consequences for us both. It brought us so much closer and here I am still alive (amongst other deeper changes in emotional awareness. I wished our culture could look at this issue more closely because I know it's a common experience.

I had a close girlfriend Kate dying of breast cancer many years ago who reached out to me. i had not seen or heard from her for years and often wondered why. I flew down to Melbourne to see her in hospital. it was obvious to me she was dying. I sat with her giving her her time. what she was saying hinted at her wanting to die but she could not come straight out with it. So, I just sat with her and talked till I had a way to bring up what perhaps she could not. It was done with such an ease like normal talk and to see her relief when she realised where i was heading. She took control of her situation and began to talk about how she felt about it. She told me her family wouldn't let her go, she talked about that pain. we talked for hours, and she had finally reclaimed herself, the strong woman she always was, and I remember saying to her "Kate it is ok to want to die" she hugged me like she had never done before, the release for her was profound. A nurse had seen this interaction and came up to me and said that Kate really needed that thank you so much. it's not easy for us nurses to see this happening she's so lucky to have someone like you. I broke down with that nurse. I did not with Kate and very deliberately so because Kate required that moment of personal strength and self actualisation and my person grief had to be held back for her time, for her. Grief can too often get in the way of actually being present for our most important loved ones. It's hard to say goodbye but please do it well with those you love.

I just finished writing my will and put on there I donate any parts of my body that can be used….I certainly wont be needing it ….

I'm an organ donor ❤

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Wait until L&I is your insurance. You will never make it off the list.

The end made me cry a bit… 34 year old guy who has been lucky enough not to need a transplant. I'd been really depressed for what I would say the past 20 years… went to my doctors and had to fill in a form… just said yes to donating everything. Signed up to donate blood too. One thing I can do is help someone else enjoy their life as there are genuine people who have amazing lives left to live. I don't understand why this isn't discussed more. If I die and can donate everything I won't need it anymore but someone else does.

Get your fresh organs from China. Their donors are still awake and wriggling.

Can't we clone or grow the organs we need for transplants instead of getting them from people who are already alive, or intentionally requiring them from people without their consent? People really have no idea of the paralyzing Paranoia people go through fearing they or a loved one will be abducted and have their organs stolen 😢

My brother passed May of 2006.. I remember when we went to get our licenses together.. I picked to be a organ donor.. and so did he!! We never knew that one day one of us would actually pass but he did save lives!!! They won’t get back to us but we do know his very healthy organs saved people!!! PLEASE DONATE.. 🤍🙏🏼

My wife was put on hemodialysis at 26 years old

We waited five years for a deceased donor

Had to move from New York to North Carolina to be able to be listed on multiple lists

My ex-brother in law sadly died waiting for a heart and lung transplant around 8 years ago. So tragic as he left his young family!

Bless all the donors and their families. Was happy for everyone who got a transplant but sad for Kate. She seemed to be the sickest too. I'm all for opting out.

Transplants weren't that bad before the "scary cold" arrived…hmmm, I wonder if that's been contributing to excess non-covid deaths?