A transplant surgeon has five patients, each in need of a different organ, each of whom will die without that organ. Unfortunately, there are no organs available to perform any of these five transplant operations. A friend of the doctor has the five different compatible and healthy organs and, for another reason, is terminally ill. However, this friend still hopes that he will survive into old age, notwithstanding 99% medical certainty that he will not make it until next month. And he certainly has no desire to sacrifice his life and organs.
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To the nine people who think they can kill their friend to potentially save the life of a stranger, if you valued this patient so highly why didn’t you consider taking out your own organs?