Comment on Is there a reason I should donate a kidney to a stranger now, rather than just waiting till I die, at which point both kidneys will probably be donated to strangers anyway?

n0x0n@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Zeus@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ah, but[^1] if you donate a kidney you go to the top of the queue

  you’re losing one when you don’t need one, and receiving one when you do

  insurance salesman here[^2], just in case that might have gibt unnoticed

  [^1]: to the best of my knowledge

  [^2]: obviously not

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  • Oaksey@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But it won’t be your own kidney and you will have to take drugs to try and stop your body rejecting it.

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  • Halafax@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Source? When they proposed to do this for blood donors, it got shut down in a hurry.

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    • Zeus@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      of course they do: they've only got one kidney, so it's more important for them to get a replacement quickly

      alright, i was being facetious. a cursory search tells me this, but i have no idea if it’s true or not. i imagine not, but i don’t know

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      • Halafax@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you read the articles you linked, you’ll notice some specifically fishy language. Neither one says that donors are promised first dibs, only that they often get it. If it’s not written down, you have nothing if they decide to do it differently.

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  • poplargrove@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m guessing you didn’t manually insert those footnotes, how did you?

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    • Zeus@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lemmy supports two footnote formats

      the basic type like so:

      comment body here[^1]
      
      [^1]: and the footnote at the very bottom of the comment
      

      or the easy to write type

      comment body here^[and the inline footnote]
      

      (note the different locations for the caret)

      keep in mind that they don’t work on most apps, and some frontends

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      • poplargrove@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Very cool, thanks for sharing!

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• Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You now have a single point of failure, where you had redundancy before.

  On the plus side, someone else gets to continue existing.

  Or from the IT perspective: I have two important servers, one has a single drive, the other has RAID mirroring. The drive in the first server fails. I could take a drive out of the server with RAID and have two functional servers or I could keep the second one running on its RAID and have a server with redundancy (that hopefully/might not be needed).

  (I’m not going out and donating a kidney though, guess we can say it’s because I’m selfish.)

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  • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But as OP points out, someone will get that kidney eventually anyway. So the difference is that a different someone else gets to continue existing.

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    • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But as OP points out, someone will get that kidney eventually anyway.

      OP erroneously thought that but it’s not actually correct. The conditions where someone dies but their kidney is viable for a transplant are rare.

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  • Archpawn@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Counterpoint: If you’re an IT guy, you’re probably making enough money that you can donate mosquito nets and save tons of lives, and it’s not worth risking all that to save one more.

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