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| Let's celebrate organ donation | Let's celebrate organ donation |
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| The Forum 60 seconds to change the world Can a simple idea help make the world a better place? Each week, the BBC World Service asks a guest to outline an idea to improve all our lives. Here, medical historian Ruth Richardson suggests that we should recognise those who donate their organs with a special day. | The Forum 60 seconds to change the world Can a simple idea help make the world a better place? Each week, the BBC World Service asks a guest to outline an idea to improve all our lives. Here, medical historian Ruth Richardson suggests that we should recognise those who donate their organs with a special day. |
| We should celebrate bodily donation. | We should celebrate bodily donation. |
| I don't mean just whole body donation for dissection, but every form of it. | I don't mean just whole body donation for dissection, but every form of it. |
| Blood donation, bone, bone marrow, kidneys, eyes, egg, and sperm - organs after death. | Blood donation, bone, bone marrow, kidneys, eyes, egg, and sperm - organs after death. |
| We in Britain are very good at celebrating the war dead with great big demonstrations of military might and mourning round the cenotaph. FROM BBC WORLD SERVICE More from The Forum | We in Britain are very good at celebrating the war dead with great big demonstrations of military might and mourning round the cenotaph. FROM BBC WORLD SERVICE More from The Forum |
| But what I'm thinking of is a much more informal type of celebration, which would be a sort of thanksgiving for the decency and compassion of individuals who have gone to donate their blood; those who have died and left organs for transplant and corneas for eyesight. | But what I'm thinking of is a much more informal type of celebration, which would be a sort of thanksgiving for the decency and compassion of individuals who have gone to donate their blood; those who have died and left organs for transplant and corneas for eyesight. |
| This sort of celebration would raise the whole profile of bodily generosity in the public agenda internationally. | This sort of celebration would raise the whole profile of bodily generosity in the public agenda internationally. |
| I think it would be a marvellous thing for the general public to see how many people have benefitted. | I think it would be a marvellous thing for the general public to see how many people have benefitted. |
| So I propose an international donors and recipients day. | So I propose an international donors and recipients day. |
| Do you think organ donors deserve more recognition? Add your comments on this idea, using the form below. | Do you think organ donors deserve more recognition? Add your comments on this idea, using the form below. |