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I don't quite see the logic here. What does the medial professional gain from letting you die to try save someone else? Prestige and money. When a millionaire

I don't quite see the logic here. What does the medial professional gain from letting you die to try save someone else? Prestige and money. When a millionaire is dying of heart failure, do you think s/he goes to whichever doctor has an opening on the schedule or do you think that s/he will seek out the doctor who has the best record for saving people in his/her position? There is the grey area where, for example, you have a 20% chance of survival but with the transplant someone else has a 60% chance There's nothing grey about it. Unless the donor explicitly authorized the removal of the organs before the onset of clinical death it's unethical. I don't care if it's 1% versus 99.99%, my organs are mine.

JoeAltmaier 11y ago
Its an old philosophy problem. Expand it - a healthy person walks into a hospital (to change the water bottles on the water cooler). They are kidnapped and taken into a back room, and their organs are 'parted out' to save 10 people. A definite Win! for society, right? In a utilitarian sense.
- walterbell 11y ago
  Only if people are fungible. What if the healthy person was about to invent __ that would improve __ survival rates?
msandford 11y ago
> I don't care if it's 1% versus 99.99%, my organs are mine. Morally, yes. Legally, no. You can't sell your organs because you don't own them. You don't own yourself because who knows why? It's the government's way of solving a variety of problems regarding people who aren't exactly in their right mind. Sadly it has some other unfortunate outcomes as well, like you can't legally take your own life no matter how much you're suffering.
- LordKano 11y ago
  You can't sell your organs because you don't own them. That's not entirely accurate. I can give them away, because I do own them. I could give someone one of my kidneys. I could give someone a lobe of my liver. I can and one day may give someone some of my bone marrow. I can and have given away some of my blood.

JoeAltmaier 11y ago

Its an old philosophy problem. Expand it - a healthy person walks into a hospital (to change the water bottles on the water cooler). They are kidnapped and taken into a back room, and their organs are 'parted out' to save 10 people. A definite Win! for society, right? In a utilitarian sense.

walterbell 11y ago
Only if people are fungible. What if the healthy person was about to invent __ that would improve __ survival rates?

msandford 11y ago

> I don't care if it's 1% versus 99.99%, my organs are mine. Morally, yes. Legally, no. You can't sell your organs because you don't own them. You don't own yourself because who knows why? It's the government's way of solving a variety of problems regarding people who aren't exactly in their right mind. Sadly it has some other unfortunate outcomes as well, like you can't legally take your own life no matter how much you're suffering.

LordKano 11y ago
You can't sell your organs because you don't own them. That's not entirely accurate. I can give them away, because I do own them. I could give someone one of my kidneys. I could give someone a lobe of my liver. I can and one day may give someone some of my bone marrow. I can and have given away some of my blood.