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Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by badsandwitch on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:00PM (#39119659)
If you are altruistic perhaps. This will create an incentive however remote that may one day see you dead.

I personally would never create an incentive for others to pronounce you dead/braindead.

Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by wizardwes on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:12PM (#39119801)
Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by MeImCounting on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:03PM (#39119708)
Kind of a messed up and far fetched stance no?
Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by badsandwitch on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:24PM (#39119938)
I doubt it would be deliberate. It would be a bias.

"He will never wake up, but he can save lives."

Small chance, but why deliberately manifest it against yourself?

Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by KolmogorovComp on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:34PM (#39120080)
I agree, that's also why:

- I don't have a partner or kids, chances are they would kill me for inheritance

- I don't have a job, so that people don't want to kill me to get it

- I don't own any physical object, and live in the woods, don't want to be killed for robbery

Small chance, but why deliberately manifest against yourself?

Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by badsandwitch on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:42PM (#39120203)
You get something in return for all the risks you listed.

This is why I said "If you are altruistic perhaps".

I'm not and I gain nothing by helping others after I'm dead.

Now if it was the case that in return for being an organ donor I get paid a good chunk of change or some other benefit then sure.

As things stand being an organ donor to me is similar to crossing roads while deliberately paying less attention.

Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by MeImCounting on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:50PM (#39120330)
I think this stance can be better known as the mentality of a psychopath no?

Perhaps just of someone who has lived a very sheltered, privileged life and has never had to empathize with anyone else?

More likely it seems like some kind of mental issue related to sociopathy or psychopathy. I am not a psychologist but this view seems to fit my understanding of those diseases.

Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by badsandwitch on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:54PM (#39120387)
Psychopaths are incapable of feeling empathy. I merely restrict empathy to family, friends and people who are in a position to reciprocate. I do feel pity for people who succumb to the mental compulsion to empathize with everyone.
Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by MeImCounting on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:23PM (#39120804)
Unsure whether youre an edgy juvenile or if there is actually something wrong with you. Either way I do hope that someday the wonders of modern medicine come up with a way to help sick people who really do think the way you claim to think
Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by debacle on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:13PM (#39119809)
Welcome to the Internet.
Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by oh_sigh on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @04:02PM (#39122602)
Yes. An equally far fetched stance would be that a Social Consciousness villain might come along and start killing people who aren't organ donors, for being selfish.
Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by zaptheimpaler on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:45PM (#39120243)
This is an understandable misconception but also one that medicine corrects for. Firstly, the team taking care of a patient never knows a patient's organ donor status. Only a few people have access to the status and they are called in to get the organs only after the care team has declared the patient dead. Even the numbers are usually in favor of the patient not being a donor given not many people register. So the most likely outcome of letting a patient die is just death not organ donation.

The team treating the patient is also made of human doctors and nurses who really don't like to kill people, their entire job is the opposite of that. Their drive to save the patient in front of them is higher than saving an abstract person somewhere else who may not even exist because organs last less than 24 hours outside of the body.