I originally thought that I was surprised in a capitalist society, when your body parts are worth more than your potential lifetime earnings, that I’m surprised there isn’t a system in place for that as a way to pay for kid’s college or whatever. But then I thought, the only reason for those prices is the organ demand, which would decrease in price with a larger supply.
So my question is, with people who generally just don’t enjoy existing, why is the focus on making them participate in society by coercion of suffering rather than overall efficiency?
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I wish we had suicide machines like in Futurama
We likely spend more money over the course of our lives than all of our organs combined are worth, and as you said, the demand would shrink organ price.
It’s an ethics concern. It’s not legal to profit off selling your own organ(s) for transplant. The reason that plasma donors make money is because they’re technically paying for the time spent donating and because the plasma is sent to private companies for research and manufacturing.
The concern is that people would begin to sell their organs at a detriment to their health or that they’d feel selling organs is the only way to get out of debt.
It is absolutely fascinating how you propose a 100% logical (and marketable) idea, disregarding that you are talking about the human race, which is much more complete and complex than a computer programmed to make mathematical decisions devoid of emotion.
The very word “overall efficiency” is something a robot would say. This is because he does not face organic challenges, such as empathy and the full range of human feelings.
We do not propose death as easily as you imagine, because we are people. We not only calculate, but we also philosophize and feel.
We sense things, we don’t just calculate resources.
For one, it could become a slippery slope. Someone gets pushed a little harder because there are so many in need.
For two, think of the medical perspective. This would have to take place in a hospital under serious medical supervision because the essential organs will become useless if there’s not a continuous supply of oxygen to them. They’d die and then literally be intubated and probably put on one of those automatic chest compression things and rushed into an OR, and the argument can be made they didn’t die by euthanasia but by organ removal.
Also, if that’s the case, you’re gonna have a hard ass time getting surgeons and doctors to agree to this sort of thing. Most are very hard line when it comes to physician assisted suicide.
And for three… I wouldn’t want to die in a hospital if I was choosing self exit.
Transplant recipient here. I wouldn’t want to receive an organ in this manner. VERY slippery slope and the possibility of knowing how the organ was procured would haunt me.
I personally think it’s the higher ups think of it as “that’ll be less people to tax”, if they were to legalise it
I am sure someone has done numbers on this.
I think it is “cheaper”to have people toiling away at what shitty job vs having to get highly paid and skilled experts in harvesting said organs, transporting, implanting and monitoring the recipients down the track.
Organ transplants are very strong hit and miss as the human body can often reject said organs depending on which one it is. A girl I went to school with son had a fucked heart since birth and almost died but with a heart transplant survived but well over a decade now there is constant check ups and events here and there.