In “Unbelievable Stories about Apathy and Altruism,” in Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, the authors, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, addresses that there is a high demand for organs, and there are not enough donors. The authors start by stating that organ transplantations save lives. They explain that these organs come from fresh cadavers from victims that die in car accidents or other type of death that did not damage the organs. Levitt and Dubner use kidneys as an example to illustrate the high demand of organs and the small amount of organs available. They state that the supply of organs in the United States decreased due to the decline rate of traffic
