Donating cash and your organs doesnt provide financial benefit, donating plasma/ sperm does, i thought donating means you dont get anything in return
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Sometimes it is altruistic. This means you are doing it because you feel it is right, not because you are trying to earn money.
“Donating” doesn’t always mean you aren’t getting anything in return.
> Donation: something that is given to a charity, especially a sum of money.
> Donation: money or goods that are given to help a person or organization, or the act of giving them:
donations of food and money
Often, Organizations will add benefits to entice donations. For some donations (organs) it is prohibited to receive compensation.
For legal reasons, at least with plasma, they’re paying for your time, not the actual plasma.
Because it’s more of a charitable thing than it is for the money. You give it to people because they need it, the money comes second
Wait until you see what the hospital charges for a pint of your donated blood when you need it
If donations didn’t have anything in return, in the US, the majority of donations would be considered a donation since you get something in return for it: tax deductions.
In a lot of cases you are donating your plasma. They pay you for the time it took not the actual plasma itself.
Not all countries pay blood donors. It is done purely for altruistic reasons (eg the UK). So it is truest a donation. You don’t get money or other compensation for what you give.
Most people in these countries donate because they know it is a life saving product, and the process of donating is safe and easy for them (to some extent). They usually feel things like that if they needed blood, they would be reliant on other peoples generosity to survive, so they donate to help others. It’s not uncommon for people who have had family members needing blood products to save their life, to be inspired to either donate soon after the event, or to become regular donors for as long as they can. Also some people have rare blood types, and feel a personal duty to donate to help similar people so there isn’t a shortage of that blood type. Everyone has their own reasons.
In countries that pay for blood/sperm, technically they are paying for the person’s time and as a small incentive to donate. So that’s why it still gets called donating.
There’s a whole are of medical ethics around the rights and wrongs of paying people for their blood or sperm.
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