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Peter Conlon

Sep 10, 2026

3:35
Yeah, yeah.
3:35
So when you are changing your driver's license the next time, you can tick a box and then, or you can get a, a donor card in the pharmacies or from the Irish Kidney Association, and the value of that is you're not able to make your wishes known when you're unconscious in a vent- on a, on a ventilator.
3:55
So if you have that on your license or you're carrying a donor card, the donor coordinators will say to your family, "Well, we found this in his wallet.
4:04
He wanted to be a donor." It is still going to be your nearest and dearest's final say.
4:10
So if your mother or your wife or your loved one says, "No, definitely, we definitely won't do that," we're not gonna have a fight with anybody.
4:18
We're going to apply their wishes.
4:21
So this is why it's really important that you should let your wishes be known, and you can do that by, over Sunday dinner or Christmas dinner or whatever, to say to your family, "Well, when I'm dead, my organs, being buried are no use to anybody, but my organs can go in and transform the lives of nine people." So you can have, you can donate your corneas, your heart valves, your heart, both your lungs, your liver can go to two people, both your kidneys, your, uh, pancreas, and then there's various tissues that can be used.
7:10
No? Okay.

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