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BostonUniStudent t1_itgv40e wrote

An opt out or presumed consent system could help also.

There are many viable and salvageable organs that are just thrown out as medical waste because we can't find the paperwork saying this person is an organ donor. Or because the additional barrier to declare yourself as one is too much effort for some people. Even though they would happily have saved other people's lives after they died.

https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/industry-dx/how-opt-out-donation-could-affect-us-waiting-lists

According to University of Michigan, this could provide up to half of the needed organs (52%).

Many countries are trending this way.

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[deleted] t1_ith3104 wrote

It seems wild that this isn't already the case

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AvsFan08 t1_itij9hg wrote

Religion. People literally think that their body needs to be whole for heaven

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Hawklet98 t1_itjhjlb wrote

If they’re right they’re gonna have a bitch of a time in the afterlife. The embalming process is going to make their reanimated multi-dimensional ghost corpse less than user friendly.

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ImBuck t1_itk8mxr wrote

Tissue harvesting is a huge industry in America.

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AmiAlter t1_itl2g56 wrote

Wait, half a teaspoon of ground up human skin can go for almost $500? Can I quite literally sell my skin?

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capital_crunch t1_itjlm9r wrote

Why don’t you donate a kidney? You only need one. And part of your liver now?

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Hawklet98 t1_itjm6z7 wrote

I’m ok particularly attacked to mg kidneys. I offered a guy I went to college with a kidney when he was in need. Different blood type, so we didn’t explore it further. I’m swabbed myself and am now a part of some sort of “be the match” bone marrow database in case my marrow can help someone. And no one wants any of my liver. It’s been through a lot.

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capital_crunch t1_itnhyfu wrote

Sure you did.

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Hawklet98 t1_itni924 wrote

Your doubt raises an interesting question: How much of a lowlife does one have to be to not even believe other people can be decent?

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capital_crunch t1_itnw5cw wrote

What kind of pitiful donkey does one have to be to ask the questions you did. Take your fart gaslighting bs to someone who cares.

This is Reddit. No one is decent. It's a website of self back pats and humbragging

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Sariel007 OP t1_itikdbs wrote

Honestly that probably doesn't even crack the top 10 list of crazy things they believe.

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Vitztlampaehecatl t1_itjrjnu wrote

Ironic, in a country where more than half of all men were mutilated at birth.

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capital_crunch t1_itjiy4t wrote

My body my choice.

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SwashbucklingWeasels t1_itk5j1e wrote

I know you’re just trolling, but I’d like to get your thoughts on this- if “you” are a soul that can live beyond bodily form, then once you leave an earthly body isn’t that not yours anymore?

Edit: I put “you” in quotes because I was thinking of the “‘you’ don’t have a soul, ‘you’ have a body” thought process.

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lunchboxultimate01 t1_ith9p93 wrote

I've heard that too. Even if the improvement is in the lower estimates of 3% - 10%, it seems an opt-out system is worth it and doesn't really have any drawbacks.

>Under the most conservative estimate, it would have reduced the number of people taken off the list due to illness or death by between 3% and 10%. And under ideal circumstances, it might have decreased waitlist removals by 52%

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tryplot t1_ithw293 wrote

as a 27 year old, I'm not opting in, because that restricts my ability to donate my body to a university to help train future surgeons. they may be able to grow the organs, but until A I. improves significantly, we still need people trained to put them in.

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BostonUniStudent t1_ithwmkw wrote

In an opt out system, you always have the right to opt out. Without question.

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tryplot t1_ithwzgw wrote

true, but that'd be one extra step between me and doing something productive (given my expected time of death). it's easier for me to say yes to one thing rather than actively say no to one thing and then yes to another.

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BostonUniStudent t1_ithyiyo wrote

And that slight inconvenience, which would be no more work than making an account here and typing your comments, is worth half a million lives annually?

(According to the estimates in the Michigan study, based on US numbers only)

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tryplot t1_ithz2f0 wrote

my one body does is not enough to save half a million lives, my original comment was saying why I wasn't opting in, not a comment on a presumed consent system. it seems that you are overly angry about a hypothetical situation where my one opinion decides the laws.

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Natsume117 t1_itj7d4a wrote

So you want to do something productive, but you’re unwilling to be very mildly inconvenienced by a small extra step? Opting out wouldn’t even be a difficult thing, should literally take a few moments.

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