Tag: kidney donation
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From lunatic to everyday hero
How we changed our minds about altruistic organ donors Zell first learned about it in the Wall Street Journal. Shane read a Vox article. Jan heard someone being interviewed on the radio. Zell, Shane and Jan are all nondirected kidney donors – people who gave a kidney to a stranger, having first discovered that this…
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Do-gooders: disliked – and attempting a comeback
Jacinda Ardern, the former New Zealand prime minister, calls herself a “do-gooder”. It’s an unusual choice: the term is mostly an insult, and she was apparently mocked at school for her do-gooding. Ardern can perhaps pull it off – she was an unconventional PM, and for years has been arguing that kindness can co-exist with…
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Why super-altruists will give up a kidney
Would you give up a kidney to save the life of an anonymous stranger? Me neither. (I’m too squeamish even to donate blood.) But some people would. In fact, nearly 1,000 people in the UK have given up theirs, not because they’ve been moved to act by an individual’s appeal for help, but as “non-directed…
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