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It's not that simple: 30% don't survive the op, 50% of the survivors die the 1st year after the op and the rest have 5 - 7 years extra with heavy medication afterwards and to some I don't react too well.If you are gonna die in a yeah anyway, and it takes time to find a lung, isnt a lung transplant fine?
Like, if you have 30 years left, and an operation has a 50% chance of killing you, yeah sure thats a risk. If you are not gonna survive the year without the op though, its not really a risk is it?
Besides the screening is intense, organs are scarce and the place on the list is determined by your condition (the more severe, the higher your place on the list). So chances are that I die before even a lung (or preferably 2) becomes available.
And there's the suspense when you get a call and an ambulance takes me to a hospital that performs this kind of transplant and the wait for the final check if the lung(s) are indeed suitable.
Thus for me, being over 60 and only having a girlfriend and no kids, it's the better choice to let it go.
And I don't have to go the full course (dying from suffocation) because euthanesia is a possibility where I live.