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So why do you refuse to be a donor?

• Igelau 6y ago
  > Everyone else in the chain is getting paid There's real money floating about at every step except for the one where they acquire the organ from the deceased's estate. It's a fair point.
  • crooked-v 6y ago
    The reason for that is to remove the financial incentive to donate any one specific organ, so that poor people don't end up as a one-kidney one-lung underclass.
    • srl 6y ago
      Well, in this case, it would only be the dead poor, right? We're talking about donating organs after death. Just as it's hard to justify not being willing to donate organs (because "you're dead, what do you care"), it's also hard to justify not paying those who do on the grounds that it's exploitative.
      • crooked-v 6y ago
        ...at which point you've got the same perverse incentives as life insurance policies back before 'we don't pay out in the case of suicide' clauses.
        • srl 6y ago
          Ah, that's a good point, and retrospectively obvious. I missed that.
    • Igelau 6y ago
      The commenter I quoted specifically suggested money toward funeral expenses. That's the context: a recognition and respect of the value the body parts had to the owner rather than an assertion of entitlement. There isn't some weird perverse incentive in that that's going to carve out an underclass of organ growers.