Kidney donation is the process of a person allowing a kidney to be removed from their body and transplanted to another person, usually to treat kidney failure. Kidney donation has been argued to be a highly effective way to increase human health.

A number of individuals involved with the effective altruism community or adjacent to it have donated a kidney, including Alexander Berger,^[1] Jeremiah Johnson,^[2] Zell Kravinsky,^[3] Dylan Matthews,^[4] Michael Page,^[5] and others.^[6]

Further reading

Galef, Julia (2017) The science and ethics of kidney donation (Dylan Matthews), Rationally Speaking, February 5.

Parker, Ian (2004) The gift, The New Yorker, July 25.

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