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In the meantime, if you can (no religious issues, no health issues), register yourself as a donor.
by kwanbix 3y ago
In the meantime, if you can (no religious issues, no health issues), register yourself as a donor.
- badsandwitch 3y ago[flagged]
- MeImCounting 3y agoKind of a messed up and far fetched stance no?
- debacle 3y agoWelcome to the Internet.
- badsandwitch 3y agoI doubt it would be deliberate. It would be a bias. "He will never wake up, but he can save lives." Small chance, but why deliberately manifest it against yourself?
- KolmogorovComp 3y agoI agree, that's also why: - I don't have a partner or kids, chances are they would kill me for inheritance - I don't have a job, so that people don't want to kill me to get it - I don't own any physical object, and live in the woods, don't want to be killed for robbery Small chance, but why deliberately manifest against yourself?
- badsandwitch 3y agoYou get something in return for all the risks you listed. This is why I said "If you are altruistic perhaps". I'm not and I gain nothing by helping others after I'm dead. Now if it was the case that in return for being an organ donor I get paid a good chunk of change or some other benefit then sure. As things stand being an organ donor to me is similar to crossing roads while deliberately paying less attention.
- MeImCounting 3y agoI think this stance can be better known as the mentality of a psychopath no? Perhaps just of someone who has lived a very sheltered, privileged life and has never had to empathize with anyone else? More likely it seems like some kind of mental issue related to sociopathy or psychopathy. I am not a psychologist but this view seems to fit my understanding of those diseases.
- badsandwitch 3y agoPsychopaths are incapable of feeling empathy. I merely restrict empathy to family, friends and people who are in a position to reciprocate. I do feel pity for people who succumb to the mental compulsion to empathize with everyone.
- MeImCounting 3y agoUnsure whether youre an edgy juvenile or if there is actually something wrong with you. Either way I do hope that someday the wonders of modern medicine come up with a way to help sick people who really do think the way you claim to think
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- oh_sigh 3y agoYes. An equally far fetched stance would be that a Social Consciousness villain might come along and start killing people who aren't organ donors, for being selfish.
- wizardwes 3y agohttps://www.dnaz.org/why-doctors-will-not-let-you-die-if-youre-a-registered-organ-donor/ https://www.dnaz.org/why-doctors-will-not-let-you-die-if-you...
- zaptheimpaler 3y agoThis is an understandable misconception but also one that medicine corrects for. Firstly, the team taking care of a patient never knows a patient's organ donor status. Only a few people have access to the status and they are called in to get the organs only after the care team has declared the patient dead. Even the numbers are usually in favor of the patient not being a donor given not many people register. So the most likely outcome of letting a patient die is just death not organ donation. The team treating the patient is also made of human doctors and nurses who really don't like to kill people, their entire job is the opposite of that. Their drive to save the patient in front of them is higher than saving an abstract person somewhere else who may not even exist because organs last less than 24 hours outside of the body.
- Hitton 3y agoLiver donation in particular is easy, because they can take just half of it and it will grow back.