Donorcycles: Motorcycle Helmet Laws and the Supply of Organ Donors
the PMC and harvesting organs of alienated people, name a better duo
Donorcycles: Motorcycle Helmet Laws and the Supply of Organ Donors
the PMC and harvesting organs of alienated people, name a better duo
Also, fuck opt-in organ donor nonsense. You're dead? Your organs aren't destroyed or unusable? They should be donated. What are you going to do, complain about it? You're dead.
blame religion
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Yeah I get that - my local hospital's blood donation program keeps the blood for patients rather than selling it for research, i switched to donating there so that the people who are already getting fucked over by our shitass healthcare system don't end up dying from lack of blood. I'm O neg so i get hounded for my blood a lot. and if i'm dead idrc if someone makes a profit putting my kidneys in another person to save their life, at least they went to good use.
random question, have you ever had an ulcer? and what is your diet like?
No, but it seems like it's only a matter of time considering how bad my acid reflex can get. Diet's super inconsistent but decent rn. How come?
Yeah that’s a hella specific question and now I’m curious what kind of cool crank shit they’re going to reply with.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3497328/#b22-ijms-13-13308
type Os have more stomach acid and higher ulcer rates (but lower stomach cancer rates)
Huh, that's neat! Didn't realize that my blood type was a factor in all my stomach problems lol
We have an opt-out system here, I opted out. I just don't feel comfortable with it. Just out of curiosity, do you all think everyone should have a rationally sound argument for opting out?
Yeah you should have a pretty good reason for opting out. Some religious beliefs don't like organ donation.
But to me it seems a selfish decision to opt out. You aren't using the organs anymore, you don't need them.
There are children on the waiting list who are going to die if they don't get organs.
Thousands of people die every year just in the US because they are waiting for kidneys
Because we have an opt-out system, the vast majority of people choose to donate their organs. About 73% of people will donate their organs. As opposed to the US, where only about 54% decide to donate. I think there's a meaningful difference between those circumstances.
Not to mention that "only 3 in 1,000 people die in a way that allows for deceased organ donation". Which makes the chance of me personally being responsible for someone not being able to be helped very small.
So the problem is more a matter of how people die than how many people donate.
It's your own body. If there is any sphere of the world in which having a non-rational/a-rational position on is totally valid, it's your own body imo
but it's not yours once you die since you're no longer a person
it's not yours, yes - but it is you - or, it will have been you.
Organs aren't simple possessions to be utilized, they are what constitute you. Sure, you can look at the utility function of a bit of human tissue shaped into an organ and decide that it may better serve someone else at a point where you are no longer - but that decision should be your own conscious decision, in my humble opinion.
I'm a donor myself, but I find it questionable to try and guilt or otherwise coerce or even worse, rationalize people into donating.
wack
cope
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my ghost will write a sternly worded letter about how its creepy that im inside of someone while theyre inside of someone who is potentially inside of another person and it will certainly be received
sometimes people aren't actually dead when their organs are harvested
Gonna need a source for that one, my dude.
The Premature Burial by Edgar Allen Poe. Just kidding - the issue is that organ harvesting has to come from a body where the organs aren't without oxygen for extended periods of time, because once they are deprived of oxygen they are useless. This means a good chunk come from brain dead (NIH) donors, which is determined somewhat ad hoc.
The issue here being that sometimes people recover after brain death (Medscape) but we don't know because they're immediately harvested (same source) and the determination of brain death is, again, ad hoc:
This is just like in squid game
He rubs his hands together at all the money he could make now via the organs. And all the money he could make later once he gets his AI-Brain tech to work.
The hurdle is the annoying waiting for the traditional metrics used to measure death. If only he could get the body a day or two ahead. Better organs. Better brains. He'll find loopholes. Or make his own.
He laughs to himself. He wonders if Bezos he thinking the same thing. Of course he is - Musk says to himself.
My body, my choice.
bullshit