Nick_Tarleton comments on Organ donation vs Cryonics

Nick_Tarleton 28 Jun 2011 2:46 UTC
11 points

I couldn’t find any statistics on how often a donor body is actually usable (but I’d assume vastly less than 100% of those cases, since you have to die of brain death in a hospital and still have cardiac activity)

This sounds like a really important unknown. Anyone else happen to have information?
- handoflixue 28 Jun 2011 22:52 UTC
  6 points
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  http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2011spring/article5.html suggests 11% of donors actually end up donating, and that this is rising rather fast (was 1% as of 1995, up to 11% in 2008)