Organster, Indeed

Via WorldChanging, who references bookofjoe–the world’s only blogging anesthesiologist–I read about MatchingDonors.com. They are doing an end-run around official, government-sanctioned organ donor programs:

MatchingDonors.com wants to increase the number of life-saving organ transplants. Over 80,000 people in the United States alone are on the national organ transplant waiting list. Seventeen people a day die while waiting on that list. If you have ever considered becoming a living organ donor or you are someone in need of an organ transplant MatchingDonors.com wants you to get together! MatchingDonors.com is a venue where patients and potential donors can meet and communicate, and hopefully expedite a donor agreeing to give a patient a much needed organ.

Thanks to Shawn Fanning, we can now put ‘ster’ onto the end of anything and suggest the distributed sharing of that thing.