If a stranger needed a bone marrow transplant and your marrow matched theirs, would you donate you bone marrow?
by 
Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger
ANSWERS: 10
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Probably.
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i'd like to think yeah.
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Yep. Random acts of kindess are like treasure. If you do something nice for 10 people, at least 5 of them will do something nice back. 5 people doing something nice for you at the same time has to be pretty cool.
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Sure, as long as I grew some more!
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Most definitely, assuming the doctors cleared us both as healthy enough to go through the procedure you couldn't stop me. I'm actually on the Bone Marrow Donor register.
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Sure.
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Yes, but can a get a nice dinner befor?
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Absolutely :)
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Yes. In fact, I already donated once. I'm on the marrow registry, and was called a few years ago as a perfect match for a stranger. I was told that there were two ways I might be asked to donate: the actual marrow (which involves drilling into the hip bone) and bone marrow stem cells (through a type of apheresis procedure). It ended up being the latter. Here's a link to my blog describing the experience. It was an absolutely incredible feeling when I was done. http://dr-dredd.livejournal.com/tag/bone+marrow
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I hope everyone would! I'm alive today because a wonderful anonymous donor decided to save a life. April is National Donate Life month. Go save lives: http://marrow.org All it takes to be listed on the database is a very quick oral swab.
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