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I want to be an organ donor.

Because I cannot find one good reason NOT to be one. Seriously. If I’m for a burial, my body would rot ( picture eternal confinement in the sarcophagus, maggot infestion, and the ultimate mark of carnal subjugation – decomposition ). And the mere prospect of being but a pile of ashy relic as opposed to a fully functional body ( when alive ) completely desecrates the popular choice of cremation for me.

I would have no need for my body, at all, in death, so why not? Probably the only reason people are held back from it would be that the idea of having the body carved up seems like a macabre concept, and something about respecting the corpse and maintaining it’s similitude in death. But I say pooh to the form of useless item which is gonna be hidden away anyway, when there’s a life to save. Let your limbs live on, have your heart beat for twice its lifetime. Just how awesome would that be, let me ask you?

Since we’re on the topic of death, let’s explore its antonym; birth. I was just wondering about how sex and birth are such strong imageries. Probably the most beautiful you can get. Think about it. A human being is probably the most complex palpable object you can name on Earth. Love being the most complex intangible concept.

Love causes the fusion of two complete individuals to impregnate, to create another complex being ( scientifically being made out of the sperm and the egg, but let’s toss dianoetic notions aside and view this through symbolic means. ) which essentially is two lovers as one. I have no idea how to bring this across in words, but you get my drift.

Having a child is such a beautiful, beautiful thing. And it’s ironic how the physical aspect of it ( dilation of cervix / blood / mess / gore ) is so incredibly unsurreal. It’s the thing God has with equilibrium/irony of life again, I guess.

Death & Birth, the end & the beginning, the ham & the cheese. Oops, out of point. If emotions were blocks, guess where blocks would be fully stocked? Hospitals. The joy of new life and the despair losing one all in a single building. Amazing, isn’t it?