Celebrity Deaths

I have a distant cousin who was born with kidney and liver issues. He had dozens of operations as a kid and his growth was geatly stunted. He had a dual transplant when he was in his twenties. That was thirty-something years ago. He is still small, and a glance indicates he has had serious medical issues, but he seems to live a pretty everyday life.
I'm signed up as a donor and wish more people would.

Recently went through this with my mother who died at 81. A round Italian woman she died of (unknown) heart disease, mild kidney failure and mild T2D diabetes. Her expressed wish to donate her body to a medical school. She had the proper forms just never filled them out. She was also an organ donor. When she died suddenly of a heart attack at the hospital I inquired about organ donation and the nurse told me they declined organ donation due to age. When I called the medical school to donate her body they wouldn't take her because she didn't authorize in advance. So off to the crematorium and up in smoke she goes. I remember thinking, "Man, what a waste of a good body!"

So, get your paperwork in first!

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Recently went through this with my mother who died at 81. A round Italian woman she died of (unknown) heart disease, mild kidney failure and mild T2D diabetes. Her expressed wish to donate her body to a medical school. She had the proper forms just never filled them out. She was also an organ donor. When she died suddenly of a heart attack at the hospital I inquired about organ donation and the nurse told me they declined organ donation due to age. When I called the medical school to donate her body they wouldn't take her because she didn't authorize in advance. So off to the crematorium and up in smoke she goes. I remember thinking, "Man, what a waste of a good body!"

So, get your paperwork in first!
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Did mine, have it in my wallet and my death envelope. The subject came up and I actually showed the car to a co-worker when she asked what it was like. One of the more interesting water-cooler talks I have had.

Marshawn Kneeland - Dallas Cowboys defender who evidently died from a self-inflicted wound after a lengthy police chase. Kneeland had just scored his first TD on Monday night.
RIP