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    5. FroggiJoy87 on

      I’m a universal donar and my husband was saved by organ transplants, I owe the universe big time

    9. MrBanballow on

      My grandmother finally retired and didn’t have enough money for everything, so I started donating plasma. Sick people get medicine, she gets some help with groceries, I still have some money.

    10. LizzySan on

      I used to because I could and it was honestly doing something charitable. I don’t any more because of blood cancer.

    12. craigs63 on

      The selfish reasons are snacks, 2 hours paid time off, and $20-30 in gift cards. Once they had socks. Trying different sites to see who has the best snacks.

    13. RecentSubject3918 on

      To save money on beer.

      In my early twenties we would donate blood on Wednesday and then hit the place next door for discount wings and beer.

      Instead of 3-4 pints we felt might fine after 2.

    14. Danpool13 on

      I want to help people in need. Working in a level one trauma center, you can see how many blood products one person can go through, and it will blow your mind.

      Plus, I think it’s funny my blood can be in someone else’s boner right now.

    19. Foxler2010 on

      It saves lives and not only costs me nothing, but I get a gift card!! If I get a bruise… Whatever… Somebody could have died and we need to do everything we can for them.

    20. Gallop67 on

      I donated plasma because it paid decent, like $80/session and all I had to do was lay there. One time they screwed it up somehow and it started clotting so I got to leave like 15 mins in for full pay. Yeah I don’t do that shit anymore

    21. waaayside on

      If I’m in an especially bad mood I donate and refer to it as a blood-letting. I think those old-timey doctors were on to something but got shut down by big pharma!

      I think it’s pretty close to being that elusive truly selfless act and I know I feel so much better afterward.

    23. throwingwater14 on

      Blood saved my life. I can’t donate now. But I appreciate and thank everyone that does.

    25. Edgezg on

      I donate blood for 3 reasons.
      1. It helps someone, presumably.
      2. It is the only way to remove microplastics and forever chemicals from your body.
      3. It lowers blood pressure.

    26. phyxiusone on

      My kid asked me this last week. My answer was that my body makes something that literally saves people’s lives, they can only get it if people like me donate, and my body makes more than I need. Why wouldn’t I?

    28. left4alive on

      Because I’ve got O- and it’s such a small thing for me to do to help out in the world.

      Also blood for the blood god.

    29. boondiggle_III on

      Corn for the Corn God! (his name is xochipili btw and you should say a prayer now)

    30. theacearrow on

      Wanna chime and say thank you to everyone who donates blood. My life currently depends on other people’s plasma and I’m finally starting to feel like a real person after almost a year of treatment. 

    32. TongueTiedTyrant on

      They won’t accept my blood because I was in Germany in the early 80s. Risk of mad cow disease. Meanwhile, the United States, where I’ve lived almost all my life, slaughters cows before they can be even tested for mad cow disease, from what I understand. So it’s kind of silly.

    34. MerylSquirrel on

      My grandad gave blood close to 200 times. He had a major heart attack, which he survived, a few days before I turned 17 (the age at which you can donate blood in my country). The medication he had to take from then on meant he would never be able to donate again. The first time I visited him in hospital after this, he asked me to take over from him. I’d already planned to be a regular donor because it feels like the right thing to do, but now it also makes me feel close to him and like I’m carrying on a legacy even though he passed a long time ago.

    35. Archmikem on

      I should, I tried, but I really can’t. They won’t let me.

      Most of my life I lived without knowing my blood type, until just a couple years ago I finally asked my Doctor to test me. I’m O Negative. 30 some years of life and I finally find out I’m a universal donor.

      I also had late stage Hodgkins Lymphoma at 25. Survived, but the diagnosis has permanently barred me from donating. I’m tainted.

    37. RussianKremlinBot on

      $100 + free STD check + free dopamine because contributed at least something to society

    39. Bayerl_r0ll on

      Blood Donor app has badges. There’s little I wouldn’t do for a shiny digital trinket. Helping people is nice, too, I guess.

    40. Valokoura on

      In Finland you’ll get just food for it. All kinds of snacks.

      Also some happiness from doing a good deed.

    41. nurgole on

      I don’t. Not because I don’t want to, I would love to. But because nobody wants my blood.

    42. Strykehammer on

      Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull throne. Milk for the Khorneflakes

    44. anubis_xxv on

      I donate because I have fancy blood that’s really rare and it can be administered to babies in utero while undergoing surgery before birth. And I get a cookie.

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