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Bro, you really don't understand how organ donation works. Like, not at all. It's 100% based on need & match. It has nothing to do with future potential…Steve Jobs ring a bell? "Bring a resume to their heart transplant surgeries"? LOLWUT? The hell are you talking about?
If you're an "A2" or "B" patient that's been on the list since last year, and an "A1" patient is admitted today, they take priority and you are moved back. If that's not based on need, I don't know what is. Now to be on the list in the first place, you need to be compliant with the criteria…which is there for a reason.
I'm an organ donor as well, and hope all NT'ers participating in this thread are too. It's amazing how we can impact others lives just by way of donating organs after we pass.
Nah I'm very well aware of how organ donations work. I just got caught up with the nonsense that a lot of these posts are making and decided to throw out my hypotheticals to an extreme. Like you said though, all about need and match. I understand the criteria in place for being on the list and you've got to be compliant with certain conditions, a standard black and white request. What I have issue with is people looking at his pictures and history and based on that saying he didn't DESERVE that heart... When his need and match said otherwise.
As an organ donor, you only hope your donation can save someone's life. My motive in donating is principally based on the concept of hope. You cannot judge the success of your donation based on the outcome of the recipient. To me that is a very negative outlook and unfairly judges and pressures recipients to live some all-thankful angelic life for getting a second chance... When all I want is my recipient to live another day, hour, minute or second. End of story. Nothing else matters.