> I would 100% sign up for organ donation if it could either add a score bonus to me or my immediate family if we should ever find ourselves on the waiting list.
> If you donate at a transplant center that partners with the National Kidney Registry and for any reason, need a kidney after donation, you will be given priority for a living donor kidney.
I can't find info about it now, but I'm pretty sure in the 60s in South Africa, if you regularly donated blood you got to be bumped up the system for various ops and waiting lists, and if you had to stay in hospital you were offered a better bed/room.
Sure I remember my relatives talking about that in some long ago conversation.
Boy do I have news for you: today's the day you're going to save someone's life! https://learningcenter.kidney.org/spa/courses/resource/becom...
From them:
> If you donate at a transplant center that partners with the National Kidney Registry and for any reason, need a kidney after donation, you will be given priority for a living donor kidney.
https://www.kidney.org/transplantation/livingdonors/what-exp...