Some 12,000 more people have registered as organ
donors in the Netherlands since a Dutch TV hoax that featured a
"competition" for a kidney.
The Big Donor Show was revealed to be a hoax as the fake donor was apparently about to reveal her choice of patient.
But Dutch media say the number of people registering as
organ donors has jumped since the hoax. The usual monthly figure is
just 3-4,000.
Will this greater interest in organ donation last? Here is the link and story.
We need global organ markets and we need them now, in my opinion. At the least organ markets here in the USA. It’s ridiculous that people are dying both #1 because they can’t buy kidneys, and #2 because their parents or spouses can’t afford to pay for an expensive treatment not covered by their health insurance. Legalize organ markets and both #1 and #2 are solved for a number of people, with no cost that I can see to anyone else.
If markets are opened, it will start by allowing the direct payments to the estates of deceased donors. I really don’t understand why we are reluctant to do this now. How moral is it to prevent such a market from opening, and allowing so many to die while waiting for organs.
Of course, the other option is force everyone to be donors upon death.
I registered as an organ donor, but it was just a hoax.
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