To donate or not to donate [a lobe of my liver]?

Love this BOTEC - thumbs up for more loose BOTECs on the forum.

The chance of death is too high to be realistic - better I think to go with the 1000, which brings your BOTEC closer to $2000. I would at least double the earning to $30 on average though, so then $4000. 

Either way, like you say hardly slamdunk cost-effective

Good job, and it surprises me that this seems so borderline cost effective. Nice one

Although a non-directed donation could potentially enable a significant chain of donations. I think one could count all recipients in the chain if the non-directed donation is a but-for cause of them receiving livers, but would need to include costs to all donors as well.

I did a more detailed one when considering living kidney donation.

Do you have a link? I'm vaguely considering kidney donation, but haven't found a lot of reliable information on the cost-effectiveness, including opportunity costs.

Did you also consider what would be the optimal country to donate a kidney? I expect different countries to have very different needs and donation chain opportunities, so it plausibly makes sense for me to donate a kidney in a different country.