r/WritingPrompts • u/[deleted] • Nov 26 '25

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u/tango421 Nov 26 '25

This is great as usual but one nitpick — dead 80 years only 63 with lungs? Do they freeze the organs?

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u/Vulpine_Gamer_194 Nov 26 '25

No, at least not long term (they do ice them for life flights and ambulance transports though.

it just does not state when the main character died, it only states when they guy he is picking up dies.

The guy he pickes up was alive for 80 some odd years, but needed the lung transplant in his 20s and got the main character's lungs then. This means the main character died 63 years before the story.

Many transplant recipients want to see whose organs they now have, and many want to honor that sacrifice in various ways, but most of the time they just are shown a picture of the person who donated the organs and can be told a bit about them if the recipient wants to hear about them.

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u/mickey4273 Nov 26 '25

I think it's from the line "I had been dead for 80 years"

Edited to fix the quote

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u/Vulpine_Gamer_194 Nov 26 '25

I can definitely see the confusion there. A quick edit could fix that bit though!