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Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death.
The New York Times ^ | July 30, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | Sandeep Jauhar, Snehal Patel and Deane Smith

Posted on 07/31/2025 6:04:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: God luvs America

I took off organ donor years ago. The doctors, the hospital, the agency collecting organs and everyone involved makes huge profits off organ transplants. Yet, my family gets zero. Until my family can benefit the same way the system does it’s a “No” from me!


81 posted on 08/01/2025 12:54:51 AM PDT by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You )
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To: aimhigh

Organ-Leggers are truly becoming a thing.


82 posted on 08/01/2025 3:12:09 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: BFW

Again, ask around. Don’t trust just me.


83 posted on 08/01/2025 3:19:04 AM PDT by BFW (loss of signal)
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“if you sign a Donor card or do not make your preferences known to your family or friends. That you could be Donor-ed to death and striped like stolen car.”

I’ve heard that they do that, anyhow, even without a donor card.

“I saw and heard make me distrust most if not all in the medical profession.”

My sister worked for a Medical Malpractice insurance company. She has no PCP, and if she goes for healthcare you know it’s the absolute last resort. She trusts nobody.


84 posted on 08/01/2025 4:14:15 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Use the old-fashioned kind of definition - along the lines of the T-4 program, but better.

If you’re not a ‘producer’, you get to ‘produce’.


85 posted on 08/01/2025 4:45:47 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
brain has ceased to function, even if the heart is still beating.

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What an ignorant thing for a urinalist to type.
The brain is what signals the heart to beat.

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We need to broaden the definition of death.

Like they broadened the definition of what a man or woman is ?

Or what a person is ?
( Babies in the womb )

No.
The reason organ donors are decreased has more to do with distrust in the medical profession IMHO.

I was 18 when I contacted double pneumonia in A school.

I was in a coma for 2 weeks. Thankfully it was a USCG facility where there was no incentive to harvest my organs.

86 posted on 08/01/2025 5:27:13 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m a donor - but I don’t plan on leaving much behind that will be useful to anyone else....


87 posted on 08/01/2025 5:44:08 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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Yeah, the joke’s going to be on whoever gets my liver.


88 posted on 08/01/2025 6:03:54 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Brain death was specifically created for the purpose of a morr bountiful organ harvest. What’s next? Probably economic liability. Is the person a strain on resources?


89 posted on 08/01/2025 7:12:57 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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