A good article, although I question why the author is talking about Iran and its organ market, if she's never been there and doesn't talk to anyone about it. Probably more complicated - and obviously exploitive, I mean, it's Iran - than she leads us to believe. Since it's Hacker News, cue the:
- "I'm outraged that death is brain death [or something else from the medical establishment] and not [some other crank folk definition]"
- "We should be able to pay for livers!" has never considered that he or his extended family could have been poor enough to be exploited by such a world
- "There's no organ exploitation in Asia" despite donation rates being so low and transplants being so high, the organs must be coming from somewhere
- "All transplant is exploitative" he says, until he or a family member needs a life-saving organ donation
- "I'm outraged that death is brain death [or something else from the medical establishment] and not [some other crank folk definition]"
- "We should be able to pay for livers!" has never considered that he or his extended family could have been poor enough to be exploited by such a world
- "There's no organ exploitation in Asia" despite donation rates being so low and transplants being so high, the organs must be coming from somewhere
- "All transplant is exploitative" he says, until he or a family member needs a life-saving organ donation