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by bbitmaster
3977 days ago
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As others have commented here, this is also exactly why I am not an organ doner. There are cases where people have went into cardiac arrest, where their heart stopped and everything, only to wake up and make a full recovery. "Is he dead?" is not always a well defined state with a binary True/False answer. The fact that this article is pushing for harvesting organs before death, and people who actually think this way, only serves to turn me off to it even more so. Call me selfish, antithetical to society, or whatever. If I really was in a state where there was no chance I could recover, I would gladly give my organs to help save someone else. As it is, I don't think a random E.R. doctor should make that determination based on a note found in my wallet. |
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I don't think live harvesting is common (or allowed) in the US.