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A good article, although I question why the author is talking about Iran and its organ market, if she's never been there and doesn't talk to anyone about it. Pr
by doctorpangloss 1y ago
A good article, although I question why the author is talking about Iran and its organ market, if she's never been there and doesn't talk to anyone about it. Probably more complicated - and obviously exploitive, I mean, it's Iran - than she leads us to believe. Since it's Hacker News, cue the:
- "I'm outraged that death is brain death [or something else from the medical establishment] and not [some other crank folk definition]"
- "We should be able to pay for livers!" has never considered that he or his extended family could have been poor enough to be exploited by such a world
- "There's no organ exploitation in Asia" despite donation rates being so low and transplants being so high, the organs must be coming from somewhere
- "All transplant is exploitative" he says, until he or a family member needs a life-saving organ donation
- fair_enough 1y agoI don't see how being compensated for giving your organ to someone else is worse than being told you can either give it away for free or not at all. Imagine if billionaires had to pay the "riff-raff" organ donors to continue living their vain and hollow lives instead of bribing hospitals and public officials to cut in line. If I were old and on my way out the door, this would give me a chance to leave something behind for my wife and kids. Let's say I have a heart condition or neurodegenerative disease and I'm living on borrowed time. I could make at least a couple hundred thousand selling 1 lobe out of my very healthy liver to a desperate billionaire. Knowing my heart or brain will give out long before my liver, I can accept my fate and die with courage and dignity and as an added bonus, also help my family by profiteering off of the cowardice and selfishness of people like Larry Ellison or Jeff Bezos.
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