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Why you should donate your data (as well as your organs) when you die

  • Written by David Martin Shaw, Bioethicist, Department of Health Ethics and Society, Maastricht University and Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel
imageThere's more you could donate besides blood, organs and tissue.Cropped from pulmonary_pathology/flickr, CC BY-SA

Most people are aware they can donate their organs when they die. Doing so is very important: Each deceased donor can save several lives if he donates his organs and tissue and they are used for transplantation. Support for organ donation...

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