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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by night_of_knee to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So you guys don't do domino kidney donations? This is something that is sometimes done in the US. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20199504/.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, we don’t have that here in Germany.

[–] night_of_knee -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

This document from 2016 agrees with this assertion (bottom of second page).

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

From the paper:

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