What Is the Forced Organ Donation Hypothetical?
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Ignoring the <huge>huge</huge> moral part:
* transplant matching is not so easy, it's not only blood-type that is like a 2^3 classification but a 2^10 or 2^20 classification. Getting 5 people that would day today exactly here is too unrealistic.
* after transplants the live expectancy is lower than a not transplanted person, so you must compare the expected 60 years of the victim with the expected years of the people getting the organs.
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