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Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France by cpr on Monday January 02, 2017 @11:20AM (#13301982)
The real and serious problem with this is that the organ donation process biases the medical profession into declaring you "dead" as soon as possible, and ideally even sooner, so that your organs are as fresh as possible.
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Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France by mikeash on Monday January 02, 2017 @12:24PM (#13302610)
Does this actually happen? I see this concern mentioned several times here, but always as a hypothetical. Has there been any research done to see if donors do indeed receive inferior care?
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Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France by ta1029384756 on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:14PM (#13303063)
How could you gather this data, and who could publish the study and be trusted by the public?
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Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France by mikeash on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:20PM (#13303117)
Seems like it would be straightforward to compare care and outcomes between donors and non-donors and see how they differ.

In any case, I'm not the one making the claim, so I'm not the one who has to back it up.

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Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France by ceejayoz on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:24PM (#13304149)
That would indeed be a serious problem, but you've got a funny definition of real.
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