Thread: Organ Donations
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Old 10-04-2007, 04:35 PM
burningyen burningyen is offline
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Default Re: Organ Donations

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there have been studies (and yes they were scientific)...

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I just googled

“study organ donation”
“study organ donor mortality”
“study organ donation care”

and looked at the search results 5 pages deep and came up with nothing. As Kimbell pointed out, that’s pretty weird considering that if such a study existed it would be hugely controversial and be all over the news and on page 1 of the search results. My guess is the studies you heard about actually had to do with the mortality of *living* organ donors (not surprisingly, people who choose to donate organs while alive have a slightly higher chance of dying early), or maybe studies regarding whether it made sense to try to use extraordinary means to treat terminal patients in order to *save* their organs for donation (like this study on the benefits of flying helicopters out to self-inflicted headshot victims in order to save their organs). Don't you agree it's more likely than not that the kind of study you're talking about doesn't exist?
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