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I know someone that's involved in the organ transplant industry. What I was told is that when someone is on life support, the hospital and agency involved in the transplantation process aggressively try to get the family to sign off on the organ harvest, without full confirmation that the person is actually brain dead. It happened in KY in 2021
Not nearly well publicized enough.
While I believe organ donation should be opt out rather than opt in, I also think that it should be a strictly non-profit with severe criminal penalties for putting any dollar value on the organs.
Doctors, labs, nurses, etc all get what they normally get, but fuck the organ harvesting industry in general.
I donated my mother’s organs back in 2014. While my mother was on life support the doctors didn’t mention it once. Once they confirmed she was brain dead and were able to show it my brothers and I we immediately told them they could take their organs. The biggest problem we had is they wanted to keep her alive longer than we wanted. It was getting close to her bday and we didn’t want her to die on her birthday so we told them the day before is the latest they can do it or we weren’t donating. They found recipients that day and we removed her from life support the next day. She died a day before her birthday.
There wasn’t any pressure nor did they have to try and convince us. Though my whole family has the mindset that we don’t need them after we are dead so just take what you need.
Just because there was an incident I would not call that a structural problem. We NEED organs to help other people survive, please don't scare people off from donating them.
Yeah, of course we need to have strict rules and guidelines on how all this has to happen, but please don't make it sound like if you're badly injured that a doctor will simply write you off for money, that doesn't happen.