Donorcycles: Motorcycle Helmet Laws and the Supply of Organ Donors

the PMC and harvesting organs of alienated people, name a better duo

  • mafiaprefect [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    That's why at hospitals they call them "donorcycles."

    Healthy young men for the most part, with head injuries that make them excellent candidates for organ harvesting. Why do you think there was such a big push for organ donor status on drivers licenses?

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      "But they'll just let you die if you're in a serious accident to harvest your organs!" I so WISH this were true. My personal greatest fear is being maimed in an accident but surviving in a crippled state unable to kill myself. If I'm ever that seriously hurt, please just take all my organs. But the reality is, this is just an urban myth with no factual basis.

        • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, it's one of the dumber conspiracy theories out there. ER trauma surgeons are incentivized to only care about one thing: the survival rate of their patients. Keeping this score up as high as possible is EVERYTHING for their career. Why would they risk it to save some random other person unassigned to them? The boards that oversee transplant waiting lists operate independently from the hospitals themselves.