Donorcycles: Motorcycle Helmet Laws and the Supply of Organ Donors

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

  • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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    3 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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        3 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.