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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess then the question should be is that worse than definitely dying now, and where does this cross into the patient having the right to request their own treatment?

I will always defer medical guidance to medical professionals, I know nothing in comparison to them.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It is worse.

If the living partial liver doesn't take hold, it dies off and becomes necrotic, and would need another surgery to take out or it'll become necrotic and they'll die of sepsis. It's also unlikely they'd survive such second surgery, due to the already existing liver failure + first surgery trauma.

In this case, you'd be asking doctors to directly kill the patient in a more painful way for a very tiny chance that it may save them, on top of if they do survive, assuming they don't relapse into alcoholism and die anyway. All while technically injuring someone else (the live donor).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Thank you, that does sound like an awful way to die.

I try to never assume I’m smarter than others for seeing the “obvious” path. I had a coworker in another department once call me out for saying “why don’t you just” and it’s stuck with me since.