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night_of_knee Jul 16, 2023

Should an altruistic organ donor be allowed to restrict their donation to a specific group of people? (e.g. women, gingers)

https://lemmy.world/post/1570205

Should an altruistic organ donor be allowed to restrict their donation to a specific group of people? (e.g. women, gingers) - Lemmy.world

An extreme version of this is: What should the German health service do if someone says they are willing to donate a kidney as long as it doesn’t go to a Jew? On the one hand, nobody is forced to donate a kidney and by forbidding this we’re making things worse for an innocent patient. On the other hand it can be seen as the state sanctioning this kind of discrimination.

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Marccalexx

In Germany what you describe won’t be possible: organ donation from a living donor is only allowed if both person are quite close to each other (partners, family and so on). Organ donation from dead people is anonymous: the doctors that take the organs out of the dead person doesn’t know who receives them. Only Eurotransplant knows.

I think that’s a very good system. Organs should be given and received as anonymous as possible.

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night_of_knee Jul 16, 2023

Are you sure Germany doesn’t have an altruistic kidney donation program?

It seems such a waste, this podcast makes it sound an amazing idea freakonomics.com/podcast/make-me-a-match-update/

Make Me a Match (Update) - Freakonomics

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CAPSLOCKFTW Jul 16, 2023

From the paper:

The legal basis for a living donation in Germany is a relationship or close personal connection between donor and recipient.

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Aviandelight Jul 16, 2023

So you guys don’t do domino kidney donations? This is something that is sometimes done in the US. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19656136/#:~:text=In domi….

The roles of dominos and nonsimultaneous chains in kidney paired donation - PubMed

Efforts to expand kidney paired donation have included matching nondirected donors (NDDs) to incompatible pairs. In domino paired donation (DPD), an NDD gives to the recipient of an incompatible pair, beginning a string of simultaneous transplants that ends with a living donor giving to a recipient …

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