re: Are you an organ donor? And if not, why?

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The harvesting team, transport team, hospital, the doctors all make FORTUNES doing one of these procedures.

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They make fortunes off of every other procedure as well. That gonna stop you from going to the hospital for treatment when you’re sick?

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When they include my beneficiaries in the money, I will agree to it.

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and he did a genuinely nice thing

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Nobody will ever accuse you of being nice.

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The harvesting team, transport team, hospital, the doctors all make FORTUNES doing one of these procedures.

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Just...no. The harvesting team, transport team, and doctors are all part of the 2 participating hospitals. There is no "commission bonus" for organ transplants for any staff. The hospitals bill for the procedures, true, but do you realize how much work is done on the patient during the post surgical global period where they are paid for NOTHING? How many of these procedures have complications post-op? Rejections, failed auto-immune therapy, co-morbidity complications.

I never worry about physicians going overboard to procure an organ. I worry about them PASSING on a good organ due to liability and patient risk factors. Profitable transplant programs are profitable b/c they pick and choose recipients with more scrutiny than their governing body advises, limiting complications and rejections so as to spend less in the post-op global period. The average transplant program is far less profitable than the downstream services that transplant patient will eventually end up in.

I don't see why you're not allowed to sell them.