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Yes, but that may lead to an increase in murders of young people with organs of the needed characteristics.
You can't just pick someone off the street and hope their organ works.
Organized crime in Latin America said hold my beer, fam.
Except that in most of the world its opt out yet there isn't a rise in that. There is zero chance of people killing someone when they need their organ
Is it? You should bring a proof, because this claim is highly dubious.
https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(19)30185-1/fulltext
The cited article shows that there is no difference in the death rate of donors between opt-in an opt-out countries.
But it does not support the claim that most countries are opt-out. They only look at OECD countries, where opt-in is in the majority (18 opt-in vs 17 opt-out).
Hm. Interesting, actually. Thanks for the info. It is quite unexpected data for me.
Table with countries:
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-014-0131-4/tables/1
Not to yuck your yum, but most of the rest of the world doesn't have school shootings, or a health insurance system like we do either. I'd not put harvesting to far past us.
If someone is going to harvest organs they will not care about the legality lol.
No, not till there's a way to monetize it. There's no black market for organs, and I doubt there could be one, but do you really think insurance companies and the like wouldn't start looking for was to increase kidney availability?
given there are many countries with opt out policies, and your idiotic case has never happened, I will assume it's a non issue.
They always have the worst takes on things
They're either a fool or a troll
that's a wee bit of an absolute statement, did you go thru my comment history?
you should chill.
I'd say you sound like you have a stick up your ass, but based on your username, that's intentional
Not you,
Lembot is the idiot
I agree with your comment