Reply #3: Donation of a loved one's organs is a very weighty decision

[SoCalDem]

My best friend donated her son's organs when he died in a car accident. It's "assumed" that these precious commodities will go to people who are deserving, as well as needful of them.

Of course tissue typing is foremost, but if it comes down to a choice of recipients, doctors "play God" all the time..

A liver is more likely to be transplanted into an otherwise healthy younger person who has NO history of alcoholism. Why "waste" a liver on someone who might just destroy the new one?

And someone whose mental capacity may not be up to the task of maintaining the rigorous drug routine that follows a transplant, might be an issue for some doctors.

It sucks that there will always be some people excluded, but it's just the way it is.. UNLESS you are rich and/or famous (those people seem to always rise to the top of any list)