Ok or why can’t we donate blood like we do organs? What I mean exactly is why can’t we harvest/drain a newly deceased body off all its blood and platelets? With the amount of people who pass everyday surely there would be enough.
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>like we do organs?
>With the amount of people who pass everyday surely there would be enough.
But, there are not enough organ donations. The demand far exceeds the supplies. So by that logic there would not be enough.
The reason (for both blood and *other* organs) is that people need to die in relatively specific circumstances for the organs to be useful for donation. Someone dying of old age is not going to be able to supply a useful heart. What you would want ideally is someone young who is brain dead without significant physical damage to the organs. *And* who is a donor. That is actually quite rare.
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