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So I had a rather frustrating conversation with my dad about organ transplantation and being an organ donor (I am, he is not). I generally consider him to be pretty reasonable, so I was surprised that he was vehemently opposed to organ donation.
His points:
1. It twists the doctors incentives so that they have an incentive to harvest your organs rather than to save you.
2. You are giving the organs for free, and the hospital system makes a lot of money off of them. He wants to see a cut of it.
3. Scared of potential for pain during organ transplantation, scared that he will be harvested while still alive.
4. An inane point about how he thought that bodies were kept in some secret room indefinitely, circulated with blood and plasma, and he thought that this could happen over the course of months.
SDN, respond! I had counterpoints of course, but I was curious as to how you would address these concerns.
His points:
1. It twists the doctors incentives so that they have an incentive to harvest your organs rather than to save you.
2. You are giving the organs for free, and the hospital system makes a lot of money off of them. He wants to see a cut of it.
3. Scared of potential for pain during organ transplantation, scared that he will be harvested while still alive.
4. An inane point about how he thought that bodies were kept in some secret room indefinitely, circulated with blood and plasma, and he thought that this could happen over the course of months.
SDN, respond! I had counterpoints of course, but I was curious as to how you would address these concerns.