Should organ donation be manditory?

[BiscuitTrouser]

Oh I'm sorry. What part of "your family shouldn't be able to stop anyone taking them" did I misunderstand?

No part.

Your family does not have the right, once you are dead, to hoard your organs whilst other people may need them for transplants to keep them alive.

And what right do you have to demand the organs?

I don't want them, I want them to be distibuted to those who need them.

No I mean what right do you have to demand the organs be distributed. You have less of a claim on them than the family does.

Purely on the grounds of logic; if you don't need them then there is no reson why they can't be used by others.

If the families intentions were to throw all the persons stuff in a hole in the ground and bury it forever id say yes these others do deserve it more.

 

[winginson]

I think it should be 'opt out', if you don't want your organs donated then just say you don't. Personally I'm atheist and therefore I believe anyone who is undecided won't have any form of awareness after death won't be able to complain. I'd rather the useful bits of that lump of cells be used than wasted inside a box or burnt to ash.

Maybe slightly biased however, by the fact my organs are very unlikely to be usable anyway due to years of drinking, smoking and motorcycling heavily.

 

[TheEndlessSleep]

You have no claim on them. They still get to decide what happens to their stuff when they die.

Yeah, but that's exactly the illogicallity that I'm arguing against.

Folowing that way of thinking, the family has no right to the deceased ones things, as well, because other people need them more. And trust me, there will allways be other people who will need them more. So, yeah, i completely disagree with you.

You have just heavily AGREED with me...

 

[King Toasty]

No. My body, my organs. When I'm dead, my will has first rights to decide what happens to my body, followed by my family.

I don't care if someone needs them. That's not my problem.

But when you die, nobody'll care about YOUR rights, so they should take the organs anyway. Deprive a right to life, and we'll deprive your corpse's right to be useless.

 

[Kathinka]

it's opt-out instead of opt-in here in the czech republic, which is pretty cool i think. and i think making it mandatory wouldn't be bad either. it's not like giving my watch or my fortune to my children and grandchildren. when you are dead you cease to exist, so you won't care anymore anyway^^

 

[interspark]

i agree it should be opt-out, i think most people (me included) aren't comfortable carrying around a card that takes effect after the holder's death, like an extreeme version of jynxing it, i'll probably sign up some day but i just find it weird