why do they want my eyes?

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"...they'll squeeze the jelly from your eyes! Actually it's quite good on toast."

That's why they want your eyes. Cookies for the reference. Cookies with eyeballs.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

I know they can do eye transplant thingies now, but they are one organ i would never donate. They are far too important to me to give up.

No, they can't. Not yet. And, like most organ donation, they'll do it after you die (Read:After you stop needing them)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal_transplantation
This is what i was on about.
And even if i am dead i wouldn't let them take my eyes. They are just too personal.

 

[TotallyFake]

I know they can do eye transplant thingies now, but they are one organ i would never donate. They are far too important to me to give up.

No, they can't. Not yet. And, like most organ donation, they'll do it after you die (Read:After you stop needing them)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal_transplantation
This is what i was on about.
And even if i am dead i wouldn't let them take my eyes. They are just too personal.

Oh right. That's still fairly selfish of you. You won't be using them, it's just sentimentalism. And surely your heart is more personal, being, well, inside you.

 

[Tharwen]

"...they'll squeeze the jelly from your eyes! Actually it's quite good on toast."

That's why they want your eyes. Cookies for the reference. Cookies with eyeballs.

Shrek

My turn now:

Keywords in the reference: Beggar Apothecary Salamander Lenele.

(It's not the Canterbury tales)

This reference is all I kept thinking of when reading the title of the thread.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

Oh right. That's still fairly selfish of you. You won't be using them, it's just sentimentalism. And surely your heart is more personal, being, well, inside you.

I know, its completely selfish of me. But they are the one thing i can't imagine existing without. We've been through a lot together.

 

[TotallyFake]

Oh right. That's still fairly selfish of you. You won't be using them, it's just sentimentalism. And surely your heart is more personal, being, well, inside you.

I know, its completely selfish of me. But they are the one thing i can't imagine existing without. We've been through a lot together.

But....you won't BE existing with them. They'll just rot.

Alternatively - Let them be transplanted, and they'll live in. As will you, nestled inside someone's eyes, seeing what they see, living what they live. Isn't that awesome? A little spark of you still existing after the rest is dust?

 

[PureChaos]

So that we can trade Sharingans for Byakugans and shit.

imagine having Byakugan in one eye and Sharingan in the other!

 

[Ekonk]

Because the eyes are liars, they are on a lie channel, and what do you do when somethings on the wrong channel? You switch to another one - but the eyes are stuck, so they have to be removed.

No, they don't want your eyes. They cannot fuse nerve tissue together, so therefor they can't place them into someone else's head and connect them to the brain. So the only logical explanation is above.

 

[Flames66]

"I just do eyes..."

Sorry for the reference.

^_^

If you could only see what I have seen with your eyes.

 

[Daverson]

Depends on the nature of your donorship. Some also give unused transplant items for medical research, you can gain an untold wealth of information about how we work by subjecting our components to different conditions, unfortunately usually doing so will result in the destruction of the device (outside a host, most organs won't survive very long).

Well... you won't be using it anymore, will you?

It may seem somewhat... distasteful... but understanding the problem is the first step towards solving it. I'm sure that no one really wants to let petty feelings of ownership hinder the helping of the species as a whole, do they?

Another possibility is that the donorship may be designed to be future-proof. While we can't transplant eyes today, it's likely that there's already someone's working on a procedure to allow this. Who knows, maybe tomorrow it will be possible...

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

Oh right. That's still fairly selfish of you. You won't be using them, it's just sentimentalism. And surely your heart is more personal, being, well, inside you.

I know, its completely selfish of me. But they are the one thing i can't imagine existing without. We've been through a lot together.

But....you won't BE existing with them. They'll just rot.

Alternatively - Let them be transplanted, and they'll live in. As will you, nestled inside someone's eyes, seeing what they see, living what they live. Isn't that awesome? A little spark of you still existing after the rest is dust?

That does make it sound much more palatable, but still, no. They can have everything else, just never my eyes.

 

[JWAN]

with recent technology we have gone as far as eye transplantation.

didn't we recently manage a heart transplantation? if so an eye should be manageable.

heart transplants have been going on since 1967

 

[Divine Miss Bee]

"...they'll squeeze the jelly from your eyes! Actually it's quite good on toast."

That's why they want your eyes. Cookies for the reference. Cookies with eyeballs.

shrek is a lot more obvious than bladerunner-why do we get cookies for this one?

 

[irateidiot]

They sell them off to the Indiana-Jones-and-The-Temple-of-Doom Re-enactment Society for gala eyeball-soup evenings, and use the proceeds to fund pig organ transplant research. On orphans.

 

[ezeroast]

"I just do eyes..."

Sorry for the reference.

[sub]See who can get it..[/sub]

I don't know if it is a viable surgery yet, full eye transplant, but apparently we're close, so if you were to die they'd probably use your eyes to further the research.

However, I'm woefully ignorant of these things and this is probably very outdated information I'm giving you, so feel free to correct me.

Bladerunner?

Edit: Err nvm like 3 people too late lol

 

[dont_blink]

"I just do eyes..."

Sorry for the reference.

[sub]See who can get it..[/sub]

=[ i was gonna say bladerunner and then i read further on and someone already said it =[

 

[Regiment]

"...they'll squeeze the jelly from your eyes! Actually it's quite good on toast."

That's why they want your eyes. Cookies for the reference. Cookies with eyeballs.

shrek is a lot more obvious than bladerunner-why do we get cookies for this one?

Because they're cookies with eyeballs and therefore somewhat less desirable than regular cookies?

 

[ezeroast]

Alot of people happily donate the rest of their organs but leave the eyes. Something about being not being able to see in the afterlife without them.
lol but somehow having no lungs is fine, or no brain... no heart....