"By that time in our lives, we no longer shrank away from the subject of donations as we'd have done a year or two earlier; but neither did we think about it very seriously, or discuss it. All that business about "unzipping", that was typical of the way the whole subject impinged on us when we were thirteen. "(89)
So, they knew that donations meant that they would need to give up a body part. When this information was divulged to them is unknown. But, for years, the students opted not to talk about it. This is because they probably did not want think about it to much. This of course is understandable because, not only did they not know all of the details, but this information that they were given was dangerous. Nobody wants to talk about their imitate death. So, as they got older, it became safer to make a joke of it. This joke made the donations feel less threatening. And, this must have worked, because out of all of the people Kathy comes across in the corse of this story, even at the bed side of some of her best friends, donation were taken lighter than they should. This is why they are not wholly informed of this deathly process during their youth, to save their innocents that much longer.
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