Sheridan Nygaard
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181 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard Apr 2025
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exposés and a lot more research into this topic have found several instances where bodies are being exploited. One example is that a body was donated to Tulane University in 2004, where it was shipped to a broker who then passed this body to the army for landmine experiments. Now, for me, that happening to my loved one, that would just be devastating. That is truly a gross misuse of
exploitation of someone's grief and lack of resources. And this is unfortunately still going on. I know that that is in 2004, but there have been several instances. You can look them up. It's really concerning. But yeah, a lot of that came up in my research. But this, again, I would like to make it very clear, this is extremely different than organ donation.
And we have an entire episode on organ donation, which if you have any questions, go check that episode out, but it is entirely different. Please do try to keep them separate in your head. I know they sound similar, but that is a really important point that they are very different.
I think Maddie wanted to skip her last thoughts. I just got that message.
Yeah, no problem. Also, I love the mention of Second Harvest Heartland. I used to work with them. Fabulous company. If you're ever experiencing food insecurity, consider checking out their resources. I also really appreciated your commentary on shifting our mindset in the healthcare field to shift blame off of the patients. I think that's a really important point.
Comment, we've also been discussing disparities mostly in terms of race and ethnicity. And obviously we have work to be done in the racial and ethnic disparities. For example, the maternal mortality rates is much higher for black women in the US. And I'd like to push a conversation more towards intersectionality. With the maternal mortality example, these patients are black and women.
This is two groups that have disparities separate, but together they compound. Um, and in our research from, I don't remember who did our research. I think it was Aaron or Maddie. Somebody did some lovely research. Maddie. Thank you, Maddie.
Um, it's also pride month and our research showed that black and or trans Minnesotans reported the highest rate of unfair treatment by healthcare providers, uh, How do we address the compounding effects of disparities for individuals that exist in these intersections between race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, sexual identity?
Black and trans people are going to have a much different experience than white cisgendered. And how do we address these compounding effects?
Yeah, unfortunately, I would say I do have a lot of insight on the process of organ donation, not as a recipient or donor myself, although I am registered as a donor on my license. And I encourage anybody that is willing and able to as well. Just check your license, see if you're registered. And next time you get it renewed, consider adding yourself if you're not. But my aunt last summer said,
became very ill. She had Graves disease and she had a thyroid problem and she's in the hospital and she ended up aspirating and her heart just kind of went out and she still had some brain activity. So they ended up getting her heart working again, but she had very, very little brain activity. And so this was over several months of, you know, back and forth about
What what does it mean to be a human being at a certain point when you've lost all capability to really exist without a ventilator and everything? And ultimately, as a family, we decided and also it was in her will, living will. So I also encourage you to make sure that, you know, you have all of your your.
eyes dotted and your t's crossed in your living will with your wishes um and we determined that it would be best to let her peacefully pass and we were approached by life source to have her be an organ donor and we she had not previously indicated on her license but she had indicated it in her living will so that made it a little bit easier but it also complicated things not having it directly on her license so again i encourage you if you support this to put this on your license um
and I the whole process it happened over a day after we took her off the ventilator and I'm sure that the the team can speak to this a little bit more but they don't actually they they had her pass naturally so they don't actually give you anything to pass and if you don't pass in a certain time frame they actually can't harvest your organs and so that's I really want to
emphasize the statistic that less than 1% of donors end up meeting the extremely specific criteria to donate their organs. It's a very, very specific criteria. However, even if all of your organs cannot be harvested, your eye tissue and other tissues can still be harvested. So this is still going to help so many people with the gift of eyesight, the gift of tissue can help
countless people, but really the organs are very difficult to procure from my understanding. And throughout the entire process, LifeSource made us feel so much more comfortable. They answered our questions every step of the way. They were next to her bed with us when we were saying goodbye. They gave her, I think, what they call a hero walk as they took her off.
I'm going to start tearing up as they took off the ventilator. All of the health care workers came into the hallway and just clapped as they took her to go harvest her organs. And it was really, really special, you guys. Oh my gosh, it was really, really special. They gave us a heartbeat in a bottle. And so now I still have her heartbeat in a bottle on my shelf.
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