According to the ModifyNOTA website, fewer than 1% of registered organ donors die in such a way that enables their kidneys to be harvested. Also, a living-donor kidney lasts twice as long on average as a deceased-donor kidney.
Yes it would definitely help to make organ donation opt-out, and we should totally do that, but they’re saying this still wouldn’t be enough.
your first sentence has nothing to do with what i said because those people already registered. the stat you want is people who are not donors dying in a way that we could’ve used their organs but didn’t.
You think people who would opt-in register for organ donation would be less likely to die in a way compatible with kidney harvesting than others?
I think it’s somewhat unlikely that whether or not someone registers to be an organ donor would affect how they are likely to die, but if it did, I would wager that registered organ donors are more likely to die in a way that enables their kidneys to be harvested than others. In any case, I doubt the difference is more than, say, a factor of 2.
or we could make make organ donation opt-out instead of opt in you dumb fuck
That would create perverse incentives, unlike creating an open organ market and compelling poor people to sell parts of themselves to survive
According to the ModifyNOTA website, fewer than 1% of registered organ donors die in such a way that enables their kidneys to be harvested. Also, a living-donor kidney lasts twice as long on average as a deceased-donor kidney.
Yes it would definitely help to make organ donation opt-out, and we should totally do that, but they’re saying this still wouldn’t be enough.
your first sentence has nothing to do with what i said because those people already registered. the stat you want is people who are not donors dying in a way that we could’ve used their organs but didn’t.
that would presumably also be <1%, wouldn’t it?
i wouldn’t make that kind of assumption about the behavior of the two groups
I would make this assumption in this case.
You think people who would opt-in register for organ donation would be less likely to die in a way compatible with kidney harvesting than others?
I think it’s somewhat unlikely that whether or not someone registers to be an organ donor would affect how they are likely to die, but if it did, I would wager that registered organ donors are more likely to die in a way that enables their kidneys to be harvested than others. In any case, I doubt the difference is more than, say, a factor of 2.