I doubt the blood is more useful than all the organs required to produce it.
But if I lie braindead in a hospital, I would be happy if my body is divided up in the way a doctor determines to be the most useful for society.
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Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI mean a step or two beyond that- like keep a braindead body alive via feeding tube and ventilator so it’s just constantly generating blood that drips into donor bags. Keep just enough in the body’s circulation to keep it ticking, but bag the rest – it would produce WAY beyond the output of a mind-intact donor.
Bone marrow transplant? Done. Skin grafts? Hit it. Fucking hair for wigs? Plasma? Hell, even fecal transplants are a thing (restores GI microbiome that got wiped out… it’s gross as fuck, but it’s a thing - and it requires the donor to follow a VERY specific diet, that can now be force-fed).
Basically anything the body passively generates that we have some use for; keep a braindead-human-cattle-donor on life support and milk it for all it’s got.
…that sounded a bit bit like a sales pitch - gist is to illustrate just how far we could take this. Putting the focus on babies will just worsen the population problem, but also showcases an extreme lack of imagination!
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Depends on the needs of the patient. If you’re bleeding to death and the hospital you’re actively dying in is out of your blood type, then absolutely blood is more useful than organs.
If you need a new lung, a huge stock of blood transfusion bags isn’t going to do you much good.
The goal would be for supply to outpace demand for all of the above.
Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It really depends on your blood types.
psud@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
the population problem
That’s on track. Children are too expensive now so birth rates everywhere are below replacement rates already or will be soon
We may find the real population problem is we will have fewer smart people to help us fix the climate problem
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We may find the real population problem is we will have fewer smart people to help us fix the climate problem
Oh no, there’s no ‘may’ about it - we’re 100% fucked on that front.
psud@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
The “may” in that is that we really don’t know which way population will go after we hit peak population.
It might stabilise, it might drop, it might drop precipitously
The prediction I recently saw was the latter, a fast population drop after a peak
Rooty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ok, repeat after me: “Warhammer 40k is not an instruction manual”
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Silence, Heretic