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Comment author: 110phil 28 May 2011 12:21:57AM 1 point [-]

OK, fair enough.

It sounds to me, though, like it should be possible to somehow quantify the benefit of donating a kidney, on some scale, at least. Or do you think the benefit is so small, relative to one suicide, that my original argument doesn't hold?

Comment author: michaelkeenan 29 January 2012 09:43:59PM 5 points [-]

it should be possible to somehow quantify the benefit of donating a kidney, on some scale, at least.

From Wikipedia:

Kidney transplantation is a life-extending procedure.[24] The typical patient will live 10 to 15 years longer with a kidney transplant than if kept on dialysis.[25] The increase in longevity is greater for younger patients, but even 75-year-old recipients (the oldest group for which there is data) gain an average four more years of life. People generally have more energy, a less restricted diet, and fewer complications with a kidney transplant than if they stay on conventional dialysis.

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