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From my limited knowledge organ donation criteria are horribly restrictive on a personal scale but unfortunately make sense on the macro scale. Organs are such a scarce resource that as I understand there's no other option.
This girl's death was undoubtedly a tragedy, but as fucked up it's to say if she lived someone else would probably die in a similar agony. Was she treated fairly - I don't know, can we make this system better - I unfortunately also don't know.
Organ donation panels are a sick Trolley problem come to life. I don't know either.
One easy way would be to make organ donation opt out instead of opt in. As in, if you do nothing, you're an organ donor if you end up brain-dead, and if you don't want to, you have to explicitly opt out. Alternatively, we could just say any brain-dead person may have their organs harvested, regardless of what they declared while still alive. After all, you don't need the organs anymore once you're brain-dead. (I'm specifying brain-dead, because if you're completely dead, then the organs are also useless)
That would help to some extent with scarcity in opt-in countries. But there are already opt-out countries which still face the same dilemma. Because if you're even one organ short how do you fairly decide who's gonna die... Can you even fairly decide about someone's life and death...