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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • See, this is what I mean 👆 “iT sAvEs liVess, wHat arE yOu a PieCe of ShiT?” Using social pressure to shame others into a system, which if they were educated on it, they probably wouldn’t agree to it.

    More than 60% of the people that receive organ transplants are 50 or older. To tell you the truth, no I don’t care about being their hero. And as I mentioned there is a for profit incentive system in place which I’m not comfortable with (in the US at least) And just as a bigot wouldn’t want their organ going to a certain portion of the population, I wouldn’t want my organs going to a bigot or some wealthy asshole that can afford the procedure while others die. Also I wouldn’t want to find myself at deaths door surrounded by a transplant team circling my dying body like vultures treating my body like a commodity.


  • I opted out as an organ donor a few years ago and it was after reading comments like yours where people described the process of organ harvesting. I find it to be pretty dehumanizing. I think there is a lot of pressure to do it without much education on the subject. Additionally I wish I could control where my organs went, I wish I could consent right before I died and I wish there wasn’t a giant Rube Goldberg machine of financial incentives (that can be cheated to benefit the wealthy) driving the entire enterprise, but we don’t live in a perfect world. I hope if I’m ever I situation where I would need a transplant I will not be a hypocrite and let myself die or just survive on life support. This article is just a drop in the bucket, and to me, your comment and this case only highlight sentiments that were already there. We are not animals we can’t put blinders on people in the hopes that more of them sign up to have their organs harvested after death using a system that is arguably kinda fucked up. There is this attitude and arrogance that come from the medical profession where people think because they know best and want to keep patients in the dark in matters of life and death (CDC lying about masks, to absolute catastrophes like the case of Memorial Medical Center after hurricane Katrina)