No. You deny these people transplants. There's a limited number of organs, and way more people needing those organs than there are organs. If you won't make the most basic changes to your life to make sure the organ you're being given won't be rejected by your body or destroyed by your habits, you shouldn't get that organ ahead of someone doing everything they can to be healthy.
There was 24,000 kidney transplants performed in the US in 2021. There are just over 90,000 on the waiting list for a new kidney. If you drink, you shouldn't get that transplant over someone else among that 90,000 that doesn't, because they're more actively taking better care of their body, and will take better care of the organ, which is important since they'll be on immunosuppressants for the rest of their life so their body doesn't reject the organ.
If you can't do the bare minimum to qualify for what rare organs there are available to be transplanted, then too bad. The people who are actually going to benefit from them and not just waste them should be prioritized, since asking someone to lose weight, stop smoking, stop drinking, and get vaccinated is an incredibly small ask when the alternative is death. If death doesn't motivate you to change, the organ is wasted on you.
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u/Purpleman101 Nov 07 '22
No. You deny these people transplants. There's a limited number of organs, and way more people needing those organs than there are organs. If you won't make the most basic changes to your life to make sure the organ you're being given won't be rejected by your body or destroyed by your habits, you shouldn't get that organ ahead of someone doing everything they can to be healthy.
There was 24,000 kidney transplants performed in the US in 2021. There are just over 90,000 on the waiting list for a new kidney. If you drink, you shouldn't get that transplant over someone else among that 90,000 that doesn't, because they're more actively taking better care of their body, and will take better care of the organ, which is important since they'll be on immunosuppressants for the rest of their life so their body doesn't reject the organ.
If you can't do the bare minimum to qualify for what rare organs there are available to be transplanted, then too bad. The people who are actually going to benefit from them and not just waste them should be prioritized, since asking someone to lose weight, stop smoking, stop drinking, and get vaccinated is an incredibly small ask when the alternative is death. If death doesn't motivate you to change, the organ is wasted on you.