If my own lungs were shot through and those smoker’s lungs were my best hope of living more than a few months, you’re damn right I would take them. Beggers can’t be choosers...
And how do you know that was the patient's choice? The patient died within months of the transplant anyway. Maybe the trauma of the transplant of those diseased lungs shortened her life. Maybe those blackened lungs had no business being available for transplant in the first place. AND if she had waited a day, week, or month, a health pair of lungs would have been available.
It is the decrepit NHS of Britain that allowed this to happen. Their survivability rate for cancer or heart patients is significantly worse than the US. It is some bureaucrat who decided that this lady should get the crappy lungs and somebody else should have lived longer. Your argument ignores this fact completely. It is the point of the this post, not that she should accept her fate and die gratefully for the few month's she was allegedly granted by her betters.