Should lifestyle choices affect access to organ transplants?

[Fitness-Fanatic]

Should people whose lifestyle choices damaged their organs be given a transplant , or should hospitals deny patients organs if they abuse their body? why, why not?

[HollyK21]

That’s a good question. If you put a cancer patient next to someone who sabotaged their liver and ask which one I want my parts to go to then I’d def pick the cancer patient. Although you can’t take away a person’s right to live bc they made poor choices. You shouldn’t have to be evaluated first to have your life saved. What would surgeons and doctors do? Rank who fucked up the least and put them on a list? Or be like “sorry chuck, you shouldn’t have been so damn reckless in your twenties, but I’ve got a good mortician on speed dial”? Lol, of course this is for dramatic purposes but you get the gist.

[Gypsy_x]

A lot of negative lifestyle choices are more common amongst poorer people (smoking, etc), so I think that would inadvertently penalise the disadvantaged. So no.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Yes. Why should a person get a organ transplant from the hospital when they lived their lives doing drugs, drinking too much liquor while another person lived right and just happened to get sick and need a transplant?

[pizzalovershouse]

depends on how bad they abuse their bodies

[BronzedAdonis]

Yes because what Hispanic guy said