10-year-old swept into storm drain to become an organ donor, dad says

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10-year-old swept into storm drain to become an organ donor, dad says - Lemmy.World

A 10-year-old boy who was swept into a storm drain while helping his family clean up storm debris [https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/new-round-tornadoes-slam-heartland-110062389] is being kept on life support so that his organs can be donated [https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/family/video/mom-listens-sons-heart-organ-donor-recipient-55532383], according to his father. The boy, Asher Sullivan, “officially passed away” on May 18, but remains on life support to facilitate the organ donation process, his dad, Jimmy Sullivan, wrote in a Facebook post. “It’s 100% an ‘Asher’ type thing to do in continuing to be selfless,” Sullivan shared  [https://www.facebook.com/jjsvandy052/posts/pfbid0Mv2g1qQMz7T6gsZy6gj7gM7qzU82rCNXDmu27b7MY9nf3UKRR8VxJ1Xpno9P3DMgl] on Facebook. “He will have an honor walk at the hospital in the next few days and be celebrated as he is, a hero!”

The kid is going to save a lot of other lives by being an organ donor. I have no idea why people would opt out of being a donor.
Don’t forget you can also donate your corpse to medical schools!

In the US, at least, I believe you cannot specifically donate to medical schools. Generally you indicate that you'd like to be used to medical research or teaching, but that can be a wide variety of things.

To be clear, I still support and advocate for this, but believe people should be informed.

John Oliver has an interesting episode about what else that can mean in America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn7egDQ9lPg