10-year-old swept into storm drain to become an organ donor, dad says
10-year-old swept into storm drain to become an organ donor, dad says
Asher Sullivan was helping clean up storm debris at the time of the accident.
A 10-year-old boy who was swept into a storm drain while helping his family clean up storm debris is being kept on life support so that his organs can be donated, 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 on Facebook. "He will have an honor walk at the hospital in the next few days and be celebrated as he is, a hero!"
What kind of awful title is that?????
I mean, why else would you sweep children into drains?
RIP little dude. My cousin died around the same age and also became an organ donor.
I thought I was the only one. Careless use of the word "to."
I thought it's an onion article. We need new organs. Sweep some 10 year old into a storm drain
What's awful about it? Unless you mean that it's a ten year old passing away, that is sad.
The title makes it sound like the storm drain is some sort of organ harvesting machine and he was purposefully placed in there so his organs could be donated.
Hahahahaha what the fuck????
“They are to become an organ donor.”
I interpret it as a grieving father turning an accident into a heroic choice made by his son
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.
People are convinced that if you are an organ donor doctors let you die on purpose.
People are morons.
It's kinda the opposite, because for the fire brigade and emergency services the existence of organ harvesting incentives even 'lost causes' to be saved.
If you're in the sort of country where people will kill you for your organs, I don't think they're in the habit of asking permission first...
Even dumber when you realize the hospital absolutely doesn't need a little card to let you die.
Yeah, for decades I’ve heard that theory too. I’ve always thought of it as an urban myth.
Are you in the US? I wouldn’t dissuade anyone from being an organ donor, it’s obviously a great necessity and saves thousands of lives, but I’m always amazed that the bottomless skepticism of our for-profit healthcare system dries up on certain topics.
We all love to moan about greedy health insurance companies and hospital administrations putting profit above the actual health of patients and outcomes of procedures, so why is it taken for granted that, when faced with a decision to go to extraordinary lengths to save a badly injured, uninsured person, or get expensive organs for 3 or 4 insured people at the top of the recipient list, that the responsible parties will make the right decision? Hell, even without a profit motive, that can be a difficult decision that can be influenced by personal beliefs and biases.
I certainly don’t know enough about exactly how these decisions are made to have a strong opinion, but I don’t think it’s fair to characterize potentially warranted skepticism as moronic.
Don't forget you can also donate your corpse to medical schools!
My father did this. He signed up for his body to be donated to science. He always told me, the minute he passes, there's a card in his wallet with a phone number. Just call them and they'll come out to pick up his body. That's it; no funeral or anything. He didn't believe in wasting money on a funeral or burial plot/coffin after he was dead. When they're done with their research, they'll return his cremated remains to us.
Sadly, I had to call that number a few months ago.
It should be be an opt out system rather than an opt in.
I hear "the doctors will give up on me more easily" if they even have an argument they can put into words. Which seems ridiculous to me - if they even bother to check, it seems like they'd be more willing to put time and effort into keeping your body intact, giving you a better chance to bounce back despite long odds
Organ donation should be the default state, rather than an opt-in deal.
That is the case in Belgium.
It is not enforced tho. If you didn't register as a donor, they will still ask the relatives, especially of they need to keep the body on life support after the person is declared dead.
Kids dying this way is 100% expected given the braindead design of US storm drains
I never actually thought about this.
Why exactly are storm drains designed like that with a opening for little kids to get sucked in?
Do other countries (with similar weather) have the same problems?
We have the grate in the floor, but not the massive openings that clown monsters live in.
The one on that picture is actually okay, I've seen way bigger openings.
Never seen them outside North America.
This 3 foot pipe is also considered a storm drain. Unclear in the article if he was sucked down a street drain with unnecessarily large opening, or a drain for a creek.
Why don't they add a grid? That's completely unsafe
Those are big enough for kids to fit in? I've seen them, but I think the ones I've seen were still narrower then that.
People are talking about needing more inspectors, but they shouldn't even be manufacturing these with wide openings.
I live in the US and I've never seen one like that, only the square ones on the ground.
As a father of a four-year-old, this story makes me want to fucking puke. Swept into a storm drain is one of the most horrific ways I could imagine losing my little girl.
What an amazing gesture and selfless decision by a family living my worst nightmare. That is achingly beautiful.
We all float down here Georgie
