Don’t people who need kidneys, parts of livers, and bone marrow ask family and friends to get tested for a match all the time? Surely a successful match would direct that their organ go to a specific person.
But that would be a donation by the living to the living while they are living.
Who’s to say that the lady Will Smith was with wasn’t the next person on the list with her particular blood type? Wasn’t it extremely rare?
Also he can probably dictate who gets his corneas because corneal transplants are not life saving and I don’t know if there is a list. (IANAE)
Were those the only two that got the transplants after his death?
Fyi- I thought it was a trite, predictable, mediocre movie. About 4 out of 10
There’s a list–my cite is a BOOK–OK, a work of fiction, but still–where someone killed people managing in manners which preserved the corneas for transplant, so that eventually, some mob boss or some such would get his corneal transplant.
The book in question is Blindsight by Robin Cook.
Yes, they had the same very rare blood type, and her heart condition degraded from tolerable to “you’re gonna die, like, now”. She was very likely top of the list, or top of the list in the geographic area close enough that his heart would go to her.
The only other post-death transplant was the corneas, which might have played a role in his choice not to shoot himself in the head or such.
But here’s my thought. So what if he already donated part of a lung, part of his liver, and 1 kidney. Wouldn’t the rest of his lungs, rest of his liver, and other kidney be viable for transplant, too? So couldn’t he theoretically have saved/improved 3 more lives?