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The question, then, is not merely whether Nigerians would love to donate organs after death, but whether the systems and beliefs in place make that choice even possible.

But the donor had died a day earlier, and the liver lay inside a boxy plastic device. The organ owed its vitality to this machine, which was preserving it for transplantation into a needy patient.

In Austria, France, Hungary, Poland and Portugal, more than 99 percent of people consent to donate. In the United States, the consent rate is 28 percent.

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The more prominent issue, he said, is the donation of vital organs, which by definition an individual cannot live without. “The Church is okay with vital organ donation,” Zalot said.