K and I were out to dinner and chatting about being organ donors (for some reason). She's against it. (Don't ask. She has her reasons.) I'm for it. I mean, why not? I'm dead. What possible use do I have for my organs?
She conceded her eyes. Literally. "I guess I'd donate my eyes," she said, finally.
"So wait," I said, thinking it through, "You're O-Negative, right? That's the universal donor, isn't it?"
"Yeah."
This will prove how much/little I know about organ donors. Is it all down to blood type? Or are there other methods of determining compatibility? I have no clue. Bear with me, here.
"So if you and I were in an accident, together, I mean a bad one, and you were killed instantly but I was left alive, barely alive, and let's say all I needed was a kidney, you wouldn't be able to give me one of yours because you're not a registered organ donor."
To give her credit, she considered that for about a second before she said, "You'd want to live without me?"
Touché.
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