I just walked through a morgue!!

It was a pleasant surprise. I had no idea I would be in a morgue today lol

I was trying to be discreet about taking pictures. Lol I would have taken more, but it was awkward 😆

It was cold in there.

This is one of the freezers and a gurney they lay the organ donors on.

I did not see any bodies. They were going to show us a kidney being pumped, getting ready for donation, but they send all the kidneys to Penn Hospital now.

This is a morgue only for kidney/tissue donors (just tissue now). There are a couple operating rooms in there where they remove them for donation. They also have the consent rooms where they take the families in to consent to donating their family member’s organ. It’s very sweet, whenever a family says “yes,” the staff puts a butterfly sticker up on the windows of the consent rooms, to honor the organ donor and the family’s gift of life.

I saw the elevator where the bodies are brought up. It’s a different elevator than the ones the living people use. It’s interesting because I have been around that building frequently at all different parts of the day, for many years, and have never seen a body being taken in or out. I have, very rarely, seen kidneys/tissue coming out in coolers to be taken to hospitals for transplant. But never a full body.

This morgue was specifically for kidney & tissue donors, but, now, they just do tissue.

Love it!

#organdonorssavelives 💚💙🦋

Xoxo Kim