Strange7 comments on The True Rejection Challenge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 27 June 2011 08:27:35PM 0 points [-]

1) Calculate how many lives you can save with your organs. Pre-commit to donate enough money to save as many lives, on top of what you would normally want to donate.

Doesn't sound like a good fix to me. Isn't the donated money necessarily taking away from some other (presumably also life-saving or otherwise valued) endeavor? Instead I'd point out that it's possible to have it both ways: freeze the brain and donate the rest. Not much demand for brain-donors, compared to kidneys or corneas.

Comment author: MixedNuts 27 June 2011 08:40:46PM 2 points [-]

Currently, it's not possible to do both.

Factor that into your analysis of cryonics: if enough people sign up, organ donation can be integrated into the vitrification protocol.