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Kentucky man declared brain dead wakes up during organ harvesting
(www.theguardian.com)
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You opted out of potentially saving lives because you feel like the necessary process of rapidly removing and preserving quickly decaying organs doesn’t treat the cadaver with proper respect?
That’s a really strange stance.
I’m glad you can’t. I realize the system isn’t perfect, but it’s better than the absurd complexity of letting the flawed and uneducated person dying decide who gets them. Imagine, for example, bigots demanding no black person or gay person gets their organs. Screw that. Continue to improve the system, but a system needs to be in place.
See, this is what I mean 👆 "iT sAvEs liVess, wHat arE yOu a PieCe of ShiT?" Using social pressure to shame others into a system, which if they were educated on it, they probably wouldn't agree to it.
More than 60% of the people that receive organ transplants are 50 or older. To tell you the truth, no I don't care about being their hero. And as I mentioned there is a for profit incentive system in place which I'm not comfortable with (in the US at least) And just as a bigot wouldn't want their organ going to a certain portion of the population, I wouldn't want my organs going to a bigot or some wealthy asshole that can afford the procedure while others die. Also I wouldn't want to find myself at deaths door surrounded by a transplant team circling my dying body like vultures treating my body like a commodity.
Those were not my words.
I think it’s wild that you care about what happens to your organs after you die. I do think it’s a selfish position, personally, but you do you. I just doubt you’ll feel as strongly opposed to organ donation if you ever find yourself needing one.